# Gluster Community Meeting - 2020-01-14

### Previous Meeting minutes:

- http://github.com/gluster/community
- Recording of this meeting-

### Date/Time: Check the [community calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/b/1?cid=dmViajVibDBrbnNiOWQwY205ZWg5cGJsaTRAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ)

### Bridge
* APAC friendly hours
- Tuesday {Date}, 11:30AM IST
- Bridge: https://bluejeans.com/441850968
* NA/EMEA
- Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday at 01:00 PM EDT
- Bridge: https://bluejeans.com/118564314

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### Attendance
Name (#gluster-dev alias) - company
* Ravi (itisravi) - Red Hat
* sankarshan (sankarshan) - Kadalu.IO
* Hari Gowtham (hgowtham) - Red Hat
* Rinku Kothiya (rkothiya) - Red Hat
* Aravinda Vishwanathapura (aravindavk) - Kadalu.IO
* Sheetal Pamecha (spamecha) - Red Hat
* Amar Tumballi - Kadalu.IO
* Sanju Rakonde (srakonde)
* Karthik
* Deepshika
* Yati Padia
* Sunil

### User stories
*

### Community

* Project metrics:

| Metrics | Value |
| ------------------------- | -------- |
|[Coverity](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/gluster-glusterfs) | 51 |
|[Clang Scan](https://build.gluster.org/job/clang-scan/lastBuild/) | 58 |
|[Test coverage](https://build.gluster.org/job/line-coverage/lastCompletedBuild/Line_20Coverage_20Report/)| 70.9 |
|New Bugs in last 14 days<br>[master](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=POST&f1=creation_ts&o1=greaterthan&product=GlusterFS&query_format=advanced&v1=-14d&version=mainline)<br>[7.x](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=POST&f1=creation_ts&list_id=10353290&o1=greaterthan&product=GlusterFS&query_format=advanced&v1=-14d&version=7)<br>[ 6.x](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=POST&f1=creation_ts&o1=greaterthan&product=GlusterFS&query_format=advanced&v1=-14d&version=6)<br>[ 5.x](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=POST&f1=creation_ts&o1=greaterthan&product=GlusterFS&query_format=advanced&v1=-14d&version=5) | <br> 06 <br> 06 <br> 06 <br> 01 |
|[Gluster User Queries in last 14 days](https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2020-January/thread.html) | 50 |
|[Total Bugs](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/report.cgi?x_axis_field=bug_status&y_axis_field=component&z_axis_field=&no_redirect=1&query_format=report-table&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&bug_status=__open__&longdesc_type=allwordssubstr&longdesc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&deadlinefrom=&deadlineto=&bug_id=&bug_id_type=anyexact&votes=&votes_type=greaterthaneq&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&emailtype3=substring&email3=&chfieldvalue=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&j_top=AND&f1=noop&o1=noop&v1=&format=table&action=wrap&product=GlusterFS) | 352 |
|[Total Github issues](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues) | 443 |

* Any release updates?
* 21st Jan 11.30 IST we will have meeting regarding release-8 content discussion - [Calendar Request Sent](https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NmF2MG1ibzU3am1ydjR0NWNjdHNtNXBlY2UgYW1hckBrYWRhbHUuaW8&tmsrc=amar%40kadalu.io)
* Maintainers are requested to review proposals and possible release 8 content in light of available time and work required to provide an end-to-end tested (as feasible) feature/fix
* Need builders on latest Fedora (Deepshikha indicates this would be feasible)

* Blocker issues across the project?

* Notable thread form mailing list
Release-8 mailing thread

### Conferences / Meetups

* Gophercon India

Important dates:
CFP Closed : 1st Feb 2020
Schedule Announcement :
Event Open for Registration : open now
Last Date of Registration : 15th Feb 2020
Event dates: March 28th, 29th 2020
Venue: Goa

Talks related to gluster:

### GlusterFS - v8.0 and beyond

- GlusterFS-8.0 (March 18th, 2020) - <Open for discussion> - Plan for Fedora 31/RHEL8.2
- GlusterFS-9.0 (August 1st, 2020) Reflink, io_uring, and similar improvements.

### Developer focus

* Any design specs to discuss?

### Component status
* Arbiter - nil
* AFR - nil
* DHT - nil
* EC - nil
* DOC - nil
* Geo Replication - working on a bug which leading to data loss, glusterfind issues (python 2 to python3) looking into testing improvements.
* Glusterd - planing on a RFE. will give exact answer by next meeting
* thin-arbiter - Amar: thin arbiter has to be ready by release-8. 1) Add vol id field in thin arbiter itself, need ack from AFR devs 2) take clusterid in all the volumes
Ravi, thin arbiter is light weight, we can run it one per trusted storage pool?
Amar, it would be easier to have one process so it will be easier for users.

### Flash Talk Gluster
* Talk by Ravi about lockless heal-info in gluster
Ravi gave a talk.
Amar feels this is good to have for release-8.

### 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/channel/UCfilWh0JA5NfCjbqq1vsBVA

Sheetal and Shwetha are working on it.

### 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
- 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

efforts by Kadalu team: a distributed testing framework https://kadalu.io/rfcs/0002-test-framework-binnacle.html Can be used for gluster as well
Release-8 is being looked into by Amar. Needs a track for the good health of any product. Gluster -8 by march end.
giving 15+ days more it should be made available in April
Focus on things we already know. so it will help with gluster10.
people need to step forward with what can be delivered in next 2 months

21st Jan 11:30am ist, a meeting with other zone people to confirm the target for gluster 8. Contributors have to decide on what they can deliver before this.
Potential candidates:
1)Structured logging is being worked on.
2)More of python2 to 3 issues are also being worked.
3)being debug friendly.
Update to fedora 31 releases by 21st

Kadalu is interested in monitoring. might look into a webinar

Rinku, a video to explain gluster with container will be more helpful

Aravinda, move to long term release cycle. so we will have lesser versions to maintain.
Amar, May be do it after release 8. We will have to start a mail thread and discuss this out for the next coming release.

### Action Items on host
* Check-in Minutes of meeting for this meeting