2019-04-30-Community-Meeting.md

Gluster Community Meeting : 2019-04-30

Previous Meeting minutes:

• http://github.com/gluster/community

Date/Time: Check the community calendar

Bridge

• APAC friendly hours
  • Tuesday 14th May 2019, 11:30AM IST
  • Bridge: https://bluejeans.com/836554017
• NA/EMEA
  • Tuesday 7th May 2019, 01:00 PM EDT
  • Bridge: https://bluejeans.com/486278655

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Attendance

Name (#gluster-dev alias)

• Ashish Pandey (aspandey_) - Redhat
• Pranith Kumar K (pranithk) - Red Hat
• Ravishankar N (itisravi) -Red Hat
• Sheetal Pamecha (spamecha) - Red Hat
• Sunny Kumar (sunny) - Red Hat
• Rafi KC (rafi) - Red Hat
• Kotresh (kotreshhr) - Redhat
• Susant Palai (spalai) - Red Hat
• David Spisla
• Yi Wang
• Poornima G
• Rafi (rafi_kc)
• Nithya (nbalacha)

Host

• Who will host next meeting?
  • Host will need to send out the agenda 24hr - 12hrs in advance to mailing list, and also make sure to send the meeting minutes.
  • Host will need to reach out to one user at least who can talk about their usecase, their experience, and their needs.
  • Host needs to send meeting minutes as PR to http://github.com/gluster/community

User stories

• User Name: SETUP: distributed Disperse volume GlusterFS -

  ISSUE: User renamed a directory when one of the node, on which some bricks were hosted, was rebooted. This lead to a situation where directory entries were not visible on mount point even after node was up and all the bricks were running.

  RECOMMENDATION: We are trying to come up with some workaround to get the data back on mount point. At the same time we have started design discussion to fix this issue in gluster code.

Community

• Project metrics:

Metrics	Value
Coverity	103
Clang Scan	88
Test coverage	67.2%
New Bugs in last 14 days master 6.x 5.x	12 8 1
Gluster User Queries in last 14 days	26
Total Bugs	581
Total Github issues	370

• Any release updates? gluster-block 0.4 will be released this week

• Blocker issues across the project?

Conferences / Meetups

• Developers' Conference - August 2-3, 2019 - Important dates: CFP Opens: March 15, 2019 CFP Closes: May 01, 2019 CFP Status Notifications: June 1, 2019 Schedule Announcement: July 1, 2019 Event Opens for Registration : July 1, 2019 Event dates: Saturday, August 2 to Sunday, August 3, 2019 Venue: Christ University - Bengaluru, India
• SDC India, Bengaluru, on May 23rd and 24th -

GlusterFS - v7.0 and beyond

• Proposal - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rtn38S4YBe77KK5IjczWmoAR-ZSO-i3tNHg9pAH8Wt8/edit?usp=sharing
• Proposed Plan:
  • GlusterFS-7.0 (July 1st) - Stability, Automation - Only
  • GlusterFS-8.0 (Nov 1st) - - Plan for Fedora 31/RHEL8.2
  • GlusterFS-9.0 (March 1st, 2020) Reflink, io_uring, and similar improvements.

Developer focus

• Any design specs to discuss? Sent first version of gluster plus one scale https://github.com/gluster/gluster-plus-one-scale It is still work in progress, however, feedback and comments are welcome.

• Metrics of the week?

  • Number of patches from new developers.
    • Need a script to get this info.
  • Frequent test failures in the CI
    • What can be done to fix it properly ?

Recent Blog posts / Document updates

[Gluster, Scale Disperse Volume by One Node – (Part-1) :- Ashish]

RoundTable

• David S: Gluster documents are not updated. Struggled to set some option using old document. Information about options are not updated.

• Poornima : We are restructuring documentation of glusterfs. Probably this will be done by glusterfs 7.0.

• David S: What will be the medium of communication in the future? Focus on one platform or fragmented over slack, IRC and mailing list.

• Poornima: Mailing list will always be there. Slack is the platform where we want to go, however, during the transition phase we would continue using IRC.