Gluster users - Dec 2017 - reminder: Community meeting at 15:00 UTC in #gluster-meeting on Freenode IRC

Hi all,

This a reminder about today's meeting. The meeting will start later
today at 15:00 UTC. You can convert that to a local time with the
following command in your terminal:

  $ date -d '15:00 UTC'

Because the meeting is an open floor, topics and updates need to be
added to the meeting pad at:

  https://bit.ly/gluster-community-meetings

Hope to see you later online,
Niels

Thanks for all who attended! The summary below comes from the agenda and
notes at https://bit.ly/gluster-community-meetings. This hackmd pad will
be cleaned and prepared for the next meeting in two weeks (20 December).

A few more details about the topics are in the log linked below. If you
never attended an IRC meeting before, you can see how things work and
decide to join next time :)

Cheers,
Niels


# Gluster Community Meeting

- Date: 2017-12-06
- Host: ndevos
- Logs:
    - Minutes:
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2017-12-06/gluster_community_meeting.2017-12-06-15.01.html
    - Minutes (text):
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2017-12-06/gluster_community_meeting.2017-12-06-15.01.txt
    - Log:
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/gluster-meeting/2017-12-06/gluster_community_meeting.2017-12-06-15.01.log.html

## General information

- Location : #gluster-meeting on Freenode
([webchat](https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#gluster-meeting))
- Time :
  - 15:00  UTC
  - or in your local shell/terminal: `date -d "15:00 UTC"`
> NOTE: Instructions for meeting hosts are at the end of this page.
## Topics of Discussion

The meeting is an open floor, open for discussion of any topic entered below.
 
-  small updates about Glustered meeting (Bologna in March)
-  Will GlusterD2 mean that translators can now be written in Go?
   -  No, as GlusterD2 is only doing the management framework piece
-  _Add topics as new bullet points here_

### Next edition's meeting host

- JoeJulian

## Updates
> NOTE : Updates will not be discussed during meetings. Any important or
noteworthy update will be announced at the end of the meeting
### Action Items from the last meeting

- JoeJulian to invite Harsha to next meeting to discuss Minio
- bulde/nigelb will start the survey to collect info on applications used with
gluster (will take time)

### Releases

#### GlusterFS 4.0
- Maintainers: Shyam, **TBD**
- Schedule (proposed):
    - Feature proposal end date: **TBD**
    - Branching: Dec-15-2017 (tentative)
    - Release: Jan-30-2017
    - Minor release updates: (target) 20th of each month
- [Visit github lane "Release 4.0" for planned
features](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/projects/1)
- Updates:
    - GD2
        - 
  - _Add updates here_

#### GlusterFS 3.13
- Maintainers: Shyam
- Schedule:
    - ENDED: Feature proposal end date: Sep-22-2017
    - UPCOMING: Branching: Oct-16-2017
    - Release: Nov-30-2017
    - Minor release updates: (target) 20th of each month
- [Visit github lane "Release 3.13" for planned
features](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/projects/1)

#### GlusterFS 3.12 next minor update
- Next update: (due) October, 10th 2017
- Maintainers: shyam, jiffin
- Blocker tracker: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-3.12.2


### 3.10 next minor update
- Next update: October, 30th 2017
- Maintainers: Shyam, Talur, Kaleb
- Blocker tracker: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-3.10.7


### Related projects and efforts

#### Community Infra

- _Add updates here_

#### Samba

- _Add updates here_

#### Ganesha

- _Add updates here_

#### Containers

- _Add updates here_

#### Testing

- _Add updates here_

#### Others

- _Anything that doesn't belong to any above categories, add updates here_

## Announcements

### New announcements

- _Add anything you want to announce to the community here_

### Regular announcements

- If you're attending any event/conference please add the event and
yourselves to the community issue queue!
https://github.com/gluster/community/issues
- Put (even minor) interesting topics/updates on
https://bit.ly/gluster-community-meetings