great to know - this is very reassuring to hear! i know it's early days for a file-system - and that fact so many people are using it so quickly (say, as compared to BTRFS) is amazing. i think there's lots of goodwill here - which can/will translate into a even more vibrant community. i look forward to seeing these new developments roll out. -paul On 18 May 2011 21:16, Anand Babu Periasamy <ab at gluster.com> wrote: > GlusterFS is completely free. Same versions released to the community are > used for commercial deployments too. Their issues gets higher priority > though. Code related to other proprietary software such as VMWare, AWS, > RightScale are kept proprietary. > > We acknowledge that we have done a poor job when it comes to managing > community, documentation and bug tracking. While we improved a lot since 2.x > versions, I agree we are not there yet. We hired a lot of engineers to > specifically focus on testing and bug fixes recently. QA team is > growing steadily. Lab size has been doubled. New QA lead is joining us next > month. QA team will have closer interaction with the community moving > forward. We also appointed Dave Garnett from HP as VP product manager and > Vidya Sakar from Sun/Oracle as Engineering manager. > > We fully understand the importance of community. Paid vs Non-paid should > not matter when it comes to quality of software. Intangible contributions > from the community are equally valuable to the success of GlusterFS project. > We have appointed John Mark Walker as community manager. We launched > community.gluster.org site recently. Starting next month, we will have > regular community sessions. Problems raised by the community will also get > prioritized. > > We are redoing the documentation completely. New system will be based on > Red Hat's Publican. Documentation team too will closely work with the > community. > > *Criticisms are taken positively. So please don't hesitate.* > Thanks! > -ab > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:05 AM, paul simpson <paul at realisestudio.com>wrote: > >> hi guys, >> >> we're using 3.1.3 and i'm not moving off it. i totally agree with >> stephans comments: the gluster devs *need* to concentrate on stability >> before adding any new features. it seems gluster dev is sales driven - not >> tech focused. we need less new buzz words - and more solid foundations. >> >> gluster is a great idea - but is in danger of falling short and failing if >> the current trajectory is now altered. greater posix compatibility >> (permissions, NLM locking) should be a perquisite for an NFS server. hell, >> the documentation is terrible; it's hard for us users to contribute to the >> community when we are groping around in the dark too. >> >> question : is anyone using 3.2 in a real world production situation? >> >> regards to all, >> >> -paul >> >> >> On 18 May 2011 14:54, Whit Blauvelt <whit.gluster at transpect.com> wrote: >> >>> From reading this list, I wonder if this would be an accurate summary of >>> the >>> current state of Gluster: >>> >>> 3.1.3 - most dependable current version >>> >>> 3.1.4 - gained a few bugs >>> >>> 3.2.0 - not stable >>> >>> So 3.1.3 would be suitable for production systems, as long as the known >>> bug >>> in mishandling Posix group permissions is worked around (by loosening >>> permissions). >>> >>> There has been a suggestion that stat-prefetch be turned off, and perhaps >>> that other, non-default options are better not used. >>> >>> Now, I'm not personally knowledgeable on any of this aside from the Posix >>> group problem. Just asking for confirmation or not of the basic sense I'm >>> getting from those with extensive experience that 3.1.3 is essentially >>> dependable, while 3.1.4 is problematic, and 3.2.0 should perhaps only be >>> used if you want to gain familiarity with the new geo-replication >>> feature, >>> but avoided for current production use. >>> >>> Whit >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Gluster-users mailing list >>> Gluster-users at gluster.org >>> http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-users mailing list >> Gluster-users at gluster.org >> http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >> >> > > > -- > Anand Babu Periasamy > Blog [http://www.unlocksmith.org] > > Imagination is more important than knowledge --Albert Einstein > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20110519/1c6c1666/attachment.htm>
