Gluster Community Meeting - 2019-05-28

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 27th May 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
* Sunny <sunnyk> - Red Hat
* Amar <amarts>
* Ravi (itisravi) - Red Hat
* Ashish Pandey (apandey_) - Red Hat
* Aravinda VK (aravindavk) - Red Hat

User stories

Community

• Project metrics:

• Any release updates?

• Blocker issues across the project?

• Notable thread form mailing list

  • add-brick: failed: Commit failed
    • https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-May/036554.html

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?
  • Heal estimation time - For ARF & EC
  • Path Based geo-replication
    • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gW5ETQxNiy9tt4uV1ohRH1g5AMmWLtbQYD3QPs_v8Ec/edit?usp=sharing

Component status

• Arbiter
• AFR
• DHT
• EC
• FUSE
• POSIX
• DOC
• Geo Replication
• 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
• What is thin arbiter?
  -Ashish Pandey

Recent Blog posts / Document updates

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/watch?v=seTpJt-91wQ

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