Gluster Community Meeting - 2019-06-11

Previous Meeting minutes:

• http://github.com/gluster/community
• Recording of this meeting-
  • https://bluejeans.com/s/s1Zma

Date/Time: Check the community calendar

Bridge

• APAC friendly hours
  • Tuesday 11th June 2019, 11:30AM IST
  • Bridge: https://bluejeans.com/836554017
• NA/EMEA
  • Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday at 01:00 PM EDT
  • Bridge: https://bluejeans.com/486278655

Attendance

Name (#gluster-dev alias) - company
* Hari Gowtham (hgowtham) - Red Hat
* Ashish Pandey (apandey_) - Red Hat
* Sudheer Singh (sudheerit11) - Paypal
* Kotresh HR (kotreshhr) - RedHat
* Sheetal Pamecha - Red Hat

User stories

Sudheer from paypal, is trying a few pocs for some work related to container storage. He is interested into looking at gluster for container storage.
He has tried fuse and NFS on distributed replicated volume and finds the performance to be low on FUSE.

When are we completely removing gnfs?

Doc and the blogs are scattered. have asked him to update the topics which need more coverage.

David Cunningham from New Zealand is interested in thin arbiter support with gd1. Is looking for the tentative release date of gluster with thin arbiter.

Community

• Project metrics:

• Any release updates?
  6.2 was tagged and annouced.

• Blocker issues across the project?

• Notable thread form mailing list

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

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) - <Open for discussion> - 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?

Component status

• Arbiter
• AFR
• DHT
• EC
• FUSE
• POSIX
• DOC
• Geo Replication
  increased code coverage and looking into newer ways of syncing the slave volume.
• libglusterfs
• Management Daemon - glusterd1
• Snapshot
• NFS
• thin-arbiter

Flash Talk Gluster

• Typical 5 min talk about Gluster with up to 5 more minutes for questions
• For this meeting

Recent Blog posts / Document updates

• https://gluster.home.blog/2019/05/06/why-brick-multiplexing/
• https://ravispeaks.wordpress.com/2019/05/14/gluster-afr-the-complete-guide-part-3/
• https://ashishpandeyblogs.home.blog/2019/06/08/gluster-scale-disperse-volume-by-one-node-part-2/

Gluster Friday Five

• Every friday we release this, which basically covers highlight of week in gluster.Also you can find more videos in youtube link.
  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfilWh0JA5NfCjbqq1vsBVA

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

Notetaker

• Who will take notes from the next meeting?

RoundTable