Gluster Community Meeting - 23rd June, 2020

Previous Meeting minutes:

Date/Time: Check the community calendar

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Attendance

  • Shwetha Acharya - (RHT)
  • Adrian Quintero -
  • Amar Tumballi (Kadalu.IO)
  • Rinku Kothiya (Red Hat)
  • Aravinda Vishwanathapura (Kadalu.io)
  • Srijan Sivakumar (Red Hat)
  • Karthik Subrahmanya (Red Hat)
  • Sheetal Pamecha (Red Hat)
  • Hari Gowtham (Red Hat)
  • Rafi (iTernity)
  • Nikhil Ladha (Red Hat)
  • Deepshikha (Red Hat)
  • Sunil Kumar (Red Hat)
  • Anandhu Manoj -

User stories

  • gluster status
  • [Adrian] uses gluster for storage in VMs
    • using gluster 6.
    • Concerned about recovery
    • [Adrian] concern is actually about production impact and which version is more stable i.e. I had issues with 6.6, 6.8 due to permission denied (ACL related) so I downgraded to 6.5

Community

  • Project metrics:
Metrics Value
Coverity 54
Clang Scan 78
Test coverage 70.9%
New Issues in last 14 days
master

36
Gluster User Queries in last 14 days 16 -116msgs
Total Bugs 4
Total Github issues 508
  • Any release updates?
    [Hari]

    • The published upgrade guide refers to upgrade gude of 4.x working on creating a generic upgrade guide which can be used in its palce

    • Did not hear any complains about the Release-8rc0 will make that the
      final release comming week.

    • This will be the last release for Release-6
      [Hari] Inhouse testing is needed before release
      [Amar] Upgrade from different versions and for different volumes by maintainers
      [Rinku] will test day be a good idea? - agreed

  • Blocker issues across the project?
    [Amar] ACL issues from mailing list - having look on the Acl usses will be useful
    No of logs can be reduced
    [Aravinda] Amar's error code patch
    [Amar] Cant be promised release8 - need to be worked on certain issues

  • Notable thread form mailing list
    [Gluster-users] State of Gluster project
    [Aravinda] a good thread, can have a maintainers meeting to prioritise things

    • Learnings:
      • Debug Tools: Need of the hour
      • NFS use cases with Gluster (many people mentioning about it)
      • Performance is a major issue

Conferences / Meetups

COVID-19 impact is likely for events!

Github Migration

GlusterFS - v8.0 and beyond

  • Should we reduce days of inactivity to 4 months from current 7 months (210 days) ?
    • [Aravinda] Should we keep it alive for the life-cycle of release?

Developer focus

Component status

  • Arbiter - Fixed a problem with the quorum logic in arbiter volumes
  • AFR - Fixed an issue with migration failures in case of add-brick & rebalance scenario
    - Delayed post-op of fsync to improve the performance of fsync heavy workloads
  • DHT - [amar]good amount of patches from team
  • DOC - Upgrade guide contributed by Rinku
  • Geo Replication- user queries have been addressed
  • Glusterd - add-brick command failing. The patch is merged and command works successfully
  • Snapshot - Nil
  • thin-arbiter - Nil

Flash Talk Gluster

Recent Blog posts / Document updates

Gluster Friday Five

Host

  • Who will host next meeting? - Amar

    • 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?

RoundTable

  • [Aravinda] close the stale projects from gluster repo
  • [Deepshikha] 4-5 issues failing on centos8 regression
  • [Aravinda] initiate the mail thread for maintainers meeting

Action Items on host

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