Gluster Community Meeting - 2019-06-25

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Attendance

Name (#gluster-dev alias) - company
Hari Gowtham (hgowtham) - Red Hat
Ashish Pandey - Red Hat (apandey_)
Amar Tumballi - (amarts)
Anoop C S (anoopcs) - Red Hat
David Spisla - Gluster User
Rinku Kothiya - Red Hat (rkothiya)
Sanju Rakonde - Red Hat (srakonde)
Pranith Kumar K - Red Hat (pranithk)
Sheetal Pamecha - Red Hat (spamecha)
Kotresh HR - RedHat (kotreshhr)
Karthik Subrahmanya - Red Hat (ksubrahm)
Shwetha K Acharya - Red Hat (sacharya)
Rafi KC - Red Hat (rafi)
Atin Mukherjee - Red Hat (atinmu/atinm)
Krutika Dhananjay - Red Hat (kdhananjay)
Vinayak - Red Hat
Kshithij - Red Hat
Deepshikha - Red Hat.
Rafi KC - Red Hat

User stories

David Spisla:
I use Gluster v5.5 together with Samba (SMB) and CTDB (HA Setup).
2-Node Replica2 Setup with WORM file level enabled.
I use Gluster for longterm archiving most of the time.

Community

  • Project metrics:
Metrics Value
Coverity 71
Clang Scan 61
Test coverage 70.0
New Bugs in last 14 days
master
6.x
5.x

19
9
5
Gluster User Queries in last 14 days 14
Total Bugs 441
Total Github issues 377
  • Any release updates?
    5.7 was facing a smoke issue which has delayed it a lot.
    6.3 and 4.1.9 packages are ready and being tested. Once done we will mark them for release.
    7.0 we want to do this post nighly build passing
    4.1.9 is the last release in release 4

  • Blocker issues across the project?
    smoke and regression have been failing for a few reasons.

  • 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

Talks related to gluster:
Ashish: Thin Arbiter volume
Aravinda: Rethinking Gluster Management using k8s
Ravi: Strategies for Replication in Distributed systems
Mugdha: selenium for automation in RHHI

GlusterFS - v7.0 and beyond

Developer focus

  • Any design specs to discuss?

Component status

  • Arbiter all green
  • AFR - gfid split brain
  • DHT - memory leak is suspected introduced as a regression
  • EC - heal not happening
  • FUSE - recent patch broke Samba's get_real_filename implementation. See bug #1722977 for details
  • POSIX - all fine
  • DOC - there are plans on updating them. we are working on it.
  • Geo Replication - Mount broker seems to be broken in upstream. Sunny has sent the patch to fix the same.
    self heal + geo rep issue with syncing.
    release 5 and 6 arent passing regression. because of python version.
  • libglusterfs
  • Management Daemon - glusterd1 one regression being worked on regarding brick mux.
    shd mux will make it into release 7. its being made stable.
    thin arbiter integration is almost done. last round of review happening.
  • Snapshot test case failing with brick mux. being worked on.
  • NFS
  • thin-arbiter

Flash Talk Gluster

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

Recent Blog posts / Document updates

planet gluster issues have to be worked on.
As of 10th its fixed.

Gluster Friday Five

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
    • The readme gives detailed steps for the host to follow.

    Ashish came forward to be the host for the next meeting.

Notetaker

  • Who will take notes from the next meeting?

RoundTable

Glusto - CIFs mount had some issue in automation.
Bala has been contacted about this.

Action Items on host

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