On 02.03.2021 23:50, Jes Sorensen wrote:
On 1/27/21 6:39 AM, Tkaczyk, Mariusz wrote:
Hi Jes,
It's been a while since last mdadm release. Mdadm-4.2 release that was
mentioned back in July does not happened yet. It's getting messy to
manage mdadm across multiple distributions.
Also, not all OSVs are willing to cherry-pick the patches, especially
for stable project - like mdadm, so only critical bugfixes are landing
in the distros.
As a result - new OSes has various forks of mdadm-4.1 and the difference
is growing with every backported patch. It leads us to situation where
those forks may have own bugs, caused by many missing bugfixes or wrongly
resolved merge conflicts.
To be honest - it becomes more and more problematic for us to track all
fixes in different supported distros.
We are searching for solutions for those problems and we are counting on
your support:
Short term - is there any way that we can help you to release next version
of mdadm soon?
Long term - what do you think about smaller, more frequent releases of
mdadm? Maybe twice a year is an option (similar to RedHat/Ubuntu
schedule)? That would be better for us and for vendors. They will need
to follow upstream instead resolving bugs reported by us or community.
The benefits will be gained by everyone. User will get up-to-date
software much faster, with minimal vendor input and modifications.
Mdadm bugs will be predictable across distros. We could help with
testing IMSM and basic functionality of native metadata.
Hi Mariusz,
Sorry for the slow response. Our daughter was born in late December and
I was on paternity leave through Feb 5, so still catching up. I also
switched teams at work back in July so my focus was shifted.
Hi Jes,
Congratulations:)
I'd very much like to see a release, and we should do one quick. Doing
more regular releases will also make it easier to ship them, so I am not
against that at all.
I am not aware of anything major pending right now, so if we can get
focus on any pending patches and get them in over the next week or two,
then I can cut an -rc and we can do a release soon. Especially if you
can help out regression testing the -rc candidate(s).
Cheers,
Jes
Thanks for answer. Please review all patches in queue, and mark -rc.
Then I will schedule regression.
Mariusz
