2019-04-16-Community-Meeting.md

Gluster Community Meeting - 2019-04-16

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Attendance

• Ravi, Red Hat
• Poornima, Red Hat
• Sheetal, Red Hat
• Sunny, Red Hat
• Ashish, Red Hat
• Amar, Red Hat
• Kotresh, Red Hat
• Deepshikha, Red Hat
• Xavier Hernandez, Red Hat

Host

Current meeting host: Amar Tumballi Next APAC meeting host: AshishPandey

User stories

• We didn't had any user joining us today.
• Agreed to discuss on specific usecase a particular feature was designed for, if there are only developers.

Community

• Metrics Project metrics:

Metrics	Value
Coverity	94
Clang Scan	89
Test coverage	65.3%
New Bugs in last 14 days master 6.x 5.x	20 20 7
Gluster User Queries in last 14 days	40
Total Bugs	632
Total Github issues	369

• Any release updates?

  • 6.1 pending
  • Need packaging volunteers.
  • Need a team to automate most of the release activities.
  • 5.6 tagging is done, testing of reduced n/w load shows good results. But seems to still have some issues with quick-read module.

• Blocker issues across the project?

  • None known at the time.

• Communication Update

  • Currently Gluster uses IRC, but the proposal is to move to Slack - https://gluster.slack.com
  • Need Archiver setup properly as there would be 10k lines backup only.
    • Expert help requested.
  • Also need proper invite bot, as the 'link' would get void after every 30days.
  • For those who want to join now, please join using this link before 25th April, 2019

Conferences / Meetups

• Amar Tumballi and Sahina Bose would be present @ Red Hat Summit, Boston (May 7-9). Specially at GlusterFS community booth.
• Ravishankar N would be present at 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, path based geo-replication and similar improvements.

Developer focus

• Any design specs to discuss?

  • Xavi's shared thread discussion
  • Dict hash changes Yaniv proposed.

• Metrics

  • 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 in April

• Gluster AFR: The Complete Guide (Part-1): - Ravi
• Gluster AFR: The Complete Guide (Part-2): - Ravi
• GlusterD volume scalability improvements in the next Gluster release: - Atin
• Improving Geo-replication Status: - Aravinda

RoundTable

• Ashish: Can we invite 'users' we work with in email threads to this meeting?
  • Please do. The idea is to discuss more, make people aware of the things happening, and developers aware of usecases, issues.
• Ashish: Can we add a link to Blogs and major documentation added in the week?
  • Sure. (And is done in this notes itself)
• Poornima: What is the plan for upgrade testing? How can we automate it?
• Kotresh: Can the website reflect the details of this meeting, and also details of Slack channel?
• Kotresh: Where to find what tests we run during upgrade? How to contribute for the 'upgrade', multiple machine test cases? Mainly because I found .t tests, and glusto tests both are not enough for this at present.
  • This needs to be thought about and discussed. This should be treated as one of the major item for glusterfs-7.