2020-12-08-Community-Meeting.md

Gluster Community Meeting - 08/12/20

Previous Meeting minutes:

• Meeting Minutes
• Details of this meeting

Date/Time: Check the community calendar

Bridge

• APAC/EMEA friendly hours
  • Tuesday 08/12/20, 02:30PM IST
  • Bridge: https://bluejeans.com/441850968
• NA
  • Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday at 01:00 PM EDT
  • Bridge: https://bluejeans.com/118564314

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Attendance

Name (#gluster-dev alias) - company

• Nikhil Ladha - Red Hat
• Pranith Kumar K - PhonePe
• Sankarshan - Kadalu.IO
• Amar - Kadalu.IO
• Vinayak Hariharmath - RedHat
• Ravi (itisravi) -Red Hat
• Saju Mohammed - Red Hat
• Srijan Sivakumar - Red Hat
• Sunil Kumar - Red Hat
• Patric Uebele - Red Hat
• Karthik Subrahmanya - Red Hat

User stories

• [Pranith] - PerryNzohu
  • Some options which are harmful over releases
  • Like 'trash' xlator
  • 'Readdir-ahead' which has issues!
  • 'read-ahead' and 'io-cache' causing more perf regression than helping.
  • Needs an issue to be raised
• How to join the gluster.org team?
  • gluster/glusterfs#1895
  • Thanks to Deepshika. Need reviews.

Community

• Project metrics:

Metrics	Value
Coverity	73
Clang Scan	88
Test coverage	71.0
Gluster User Queries in last 14 days	9
Total Github issues	391
Pending PRs	60

• Any release updates?

  • Gluster-7.9 and Gluster8.3 will be rolling out on 08/12/2020

• Blocker issues across the project?

  • None

• Notable thread from mailing list

  • Poor performance on a server-class system vs. desktop

Conferences / Meetups

• DevConf.in
  • Event dates: 17-18 December, 2020
  • Venue: Online
  • Link: https://www.devconf.info/in/

GlusterFS - v9.0 and beyond

• Gluster release 9 roadmap tracker
  • Release date postponed or on-track?
    • Postponed by a week to 18th December, 2020

Developer focus

• Any design specs to discuss?
  • [Nikhil] GitHub app not working for Slack
    • Can someone setup github App to Slack?
      • [Nikhil] I can have a look into it.

Component status

• Arbiter - Stable
• AFR - Stable
• DHT - Fixing corner cases in the lookup-optimize
• EC - Stable
• DOC - Stable
• Geo Replication - Stable
• Glusterd - Stable
• thin-arbiter - Stable

Recent Blog posts / Document updates

• https://www.gluster.org/looking-back-at-2020-with-gratitude-and-thanks/

Host

• Who will host next meeting? [Srijan]
  • 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
  • Host has to send the meeting minutes as a mail to the gluster-devel and gluster-users list.

Notetaker

• Who will take notes from the next meeting? [Srijan]

RoundTable

• [Ravi] Open Pr for updates in the problematic language in glusterfs repo.
  • Request from maintainers for working on the same in in other repos of gluster as well.
• [Sankarshan] Note of thanks to the community for working through the challenges in this year and continuing the contrbution to Gluster.
• The meeting on 22/12/2020 is cancelled because of shutdown/end of year holidays.

Action Items on host

• Check-in Minutes of meeting for this meeting