Community Meeting 2016 11 09

Gluster Community Meeting

• Date : 2016-11-09
• Host : kshlm
• Logs :
  • Minutes: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2016-11-09/community_meeting_20161109.2016-11-09-12.01.html
  • Minutes (text): https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2016-11-09/community_meeting_20161109.2016-11-09-12.01.txt
  • Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2016-11-09/community_meeting_20161109.2016-11-09-12.01.log.html

General information

• Location : #gluster-meeting on Freenode (webchat)
• Time : For meetings 30th March (2016) and later
  • 17:30 IST (Bangalore, etc.)
  • 14:00 CEST (Amsterdam, etc.)
  • 13:00 BST (UK)
  • 12:00 UTC
  • 8:00 AM US/Canada EDT
  • 5:00 AM US/Canada PDT
  • or in your local shell/terminal: date -d "12:00 UTC"
• Instructions to hosts
  • start with #startmeeting Gluster community weekly meeting
  • use #topic, #action, #info and #agreed commands to make notes in the minutes
  • end the meeting with #endmeeting
  • Use markdown formatting in the etherpad, don't use rich-text (formatting stuff from the bar above)
  • when done, paste the links to the logs in this etherpad
  • archive this etherpad, copy the etherpad contents as is (ie. markdown) and create a new wiki with the markdown content and name it "Community Meeting YYYY-MM-DD"
  • create the next weeks agenda by copying the template (in markdown)
  • update the gluster-users and gluster-dev mailing lists with the meeting minutes, and also share the link to next weeks agenda

Topics of Discussion

Next weeks meeting host

• kkeitheley volunteered last week.
  • kkeithley can no longer host, thanks to DST.
• kshlm will host again

Open floor

• [kshlm] FSFE etherpad is shutting down
  • Need to find all existing Gluster etherpads on it
  • archive whatever can be archived in the gh-wiki (https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/wiki)
  • Find alternative for others
    • https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/wiki/Sites-that-run-Etherpad-Lite
  • Saravanakmr volunteered to lead the effort to find and collect existing pads on FSFE etherpad
  • https://hackmd.io suggested by post-factum
• New meeting format trial ending. Should we continue?
  • The format was under trial for 3 weeks.
  • +1 to continue from hchirram, post-factum, Saravanakmr, samikshan, rastar
  • No changes suggested
  • kshlm will ask for feedback on mailing lists.

Updates

NOTE : Updates will not be discussed during meetings. Any important or noteworthy update will be announced at the end of the meeting

Releases

GlusterFS 4.0

• Tracker bug : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=glusterfs-4.0
• Roadmap : https://www.gluster.org/community/roadmap/4.0/
• Updates:
  • Add updates here
  • GD2
    • https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051421.html
  • Brick Multiplexing
    • https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051364.html
    • https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051389.html

GlusterFS 3.9

• Maintainers : pranithk, aravindavk, dblack
• Current release : 3.9.0rc2
• Next release : 3.9.0
  • Release date : End of Sept 2016
• Tracker bug : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-3.9.0
• Open bugs : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?maxdepth=2&id=glusterfs-3.9.0&hide_resolved=1
• Roadmap : https://www.gluster.org/community/roadmap/3.9/
• Updates:
  • None

GlusterFS 3.8

• Maintainers : ndevos, jiffin
• Current release : 3.8.5
• Next release : 3.8.6
  • Release date : 10 November 2016
• Tracker bug : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-3.8.6
• Open bugs : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?maxdepth=2&id=glusterfs-3.8.6&hide_resolved=1
• Updates:
  • Release is planned for the weekend
    • https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/maintainers/2016-November/001659.html

GlusterFS 3.7

• Maintainers : kshlm, samikshan
• Current release : 3.7.17
• Next release : 3.7.18
  • Release date : 30 November 2016
• Tracker bug : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-3.7.18
• Open bugs : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?maxdepth=2&id=glusterfs-3.7.18&hide_resolved=1
• Updates:
  • samikshan sent out a release announcement
    • https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051414.html

Related projects and efforts

Community Infra

• None

Samba

• Fedora updates for Samba v4.3.12, v4.4.7 and v4.5.1 was created and pushed following the regression encountered with GlusterFS integration tracked by https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12404

Ganesha

• None

Containers

• None

Testing

• [loadtheacc] https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051369.html

Others

• [atinm] GlusterD-1.0 updates https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-November/051432.html

Action Items from last week

• nigelb, kshlm, will document and start the practice of recording etherpads into Github wikis.
  • Meeting etherpad has been archived
    • https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/wiki/Community-Meeting-Archive
  • A template for meetings has been created with instructions on how to use the template and archive
    • https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/wiki/Community-meeting-template
  • Still need to arrive at a common set of instructions for all
• kshlm to send out an email about Etherpad+Wiki after it's done for the first time.
  • Not done yet.

Announcements

New announcements

• None

Regular announcements

• If you're attending any event/conference please add the event and yourselves to Gluster attendance of events: http://www.gluster.org/events (replaces https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/gluster-events)
• Put (even minor) interesting topics on https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/gluster-weekly-news
• Remember to add your updates to the next meetings agenda.