Shwetha Acharya
2020-Jun-23 12:20 UTC
[Gluster-users] Minutes of Gluster Community Meeting [23rd June 2020]
# Gluster Community Meeting - 23rd June, 2020
### Previous Meeting minutes:
- http://github.com/gluster/community
### Date/Time: Check the [community calendar](
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/b/1?cid=dmViajVibDBrbnNiOWQwY205ZWg5cGJsaTRAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ
)
### Bridge
* APAC friendly hours
- Tuesday 23rd June, 2020, 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
* Shwetha Acharya - (RHT)
* Adrian Quintero -
* Amar Tumballi (Kadalu.IO)
* Rinku Kothiya (Red Hat)
* Aravinda Vishwanathapura (Kadalu.io)
* Srijan Sivakumar (Red Hat)
* Karthik Subrahmanya (Red Hat)
* Sheetal Pamecha (Red Hat)
* Hari Gowtham (Red Hat)
* Rafi (iTernity)
* Nikhil Ladha (Red Hat)
* Deepshikha (Red Hat)
* Sunil Kumar (Red Hat)
* Anandhu Manoj -
### User stories
* gluster status
* [Adrian] uses gluster for storage in VMs
* using gluster 6.
* Concerned about recovery
* [Adrian] concern is actually about production impact and which
version is more stable i.e. I had issues with 6.6, 6.8 due to permission
denied (ACL related) so I downgraded to 6.5
### Community
* Project metrics:
Metrics Value
Coverity <https://scan.coverity.com/projects/gluster-glusterfs> 54
Clang Scan <https://build.gluster.org/job/clang-scan/lastBuild/> 78
Test coverage
<https://build.gluster.org/job/line-coverage/lastCompletedBuild/Line_20Coverage_20Report/>
70.90%
New Issues in last 14 days master
<https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues?q=is%3Aissue+created%3A%3E%3D2020-06-08>
36
Gluster User Queries in last 14 days
<https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2020-June/thread.html>
16
-116 msgs
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>
4
Total Github issues <https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues> 508
* Any release updates?
[Hari]
- The published upgrade guide refers to upgrade gude of 4.x working on
creating a generic upgrade guide which can be used in its palce
- Did not hear any complains about the Release-8rc0 will make that the
final release comming week.
- This will be the last release for Release-6
[Hari] Inhouse testing is needed before release
[Amar] Upgrade from different versions and for different volumes by
maintainers
[Rinku] will test day be a good idea? - agreed
* Blocker issues across the project?
[Amar] ACL issues from mailing list - having look on the Acl usses will
be useful
No of logs can be reduced
[Aravinda] Amar's error code patch
[Amar] Cant be promised release8 - need to be worked on certain issues
* Notable thread form mailing list
[Gluster-users] State of Gluster project
[Aravinda] a good thread, can have a maintainers meeting to prioritise
things
- Learnings:
- Debug Tools: Need of the hour
- NFS use cases with Gluster (many people mentioning about it)
- Performance is a major issue
### Conferences / Meetups
COVID-19 impact is likely for events!
### Github Migration
* Infra team is ready with the possible steps
* @amarts opened https://github.com/gluster/project-infrastructure/issues/62
- glusterfs issue is - https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/1330
- Request you to have your opinion recorded if not in favour
- Last day to consider that would be 30th June, 2020.
- We plan to start the migration process By July 1st.
### GlusterFS - v8.0 and beyond
* Should we reduce days of inactivity to 4 months from current 7 months
(210 days) ?
- [Aravinda] Should we keep it alive for the life-cycle of release?
### Developer focus
* Any design specs to discuss?
[Rafi] have been working on Readdirp Performance Improvement (
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10z4T5Sd_-wCFrmDrzyQtlWOGLang1_g17wO8VUxSiJ8
)
Have sent out a mail regarding the same
### Component status
* Arbiter - Fixed a problem with the quorum logic in arbiter volumes
* AFR - Fixed an issue with migration failures in case of add-brick &
rebalance scenario
- Delayed post-op of fsync to improve the performance of fsync heavy
workloads
* DHT - [amar]good amount of patches from team
* DOC - Upgrade guide contributed by Rinku
* Geo Replication- user queries have been addressed
* Glusterd - add-brick command failing. The patch is merged and command
works successfully
* Snapshot - Nil
* thin-arbiter - Nil
### Flash Talk Gluster
*
### Recent Blog posts / Document updates
* GlusterFS quota accounting mismatch(
https://medium.com/@harigowtham/glusterfs-quota-accounting-mismatch-9478bc2eaf0a
)
* Debian and ubuntu packaging from the same machine(
https://medium.com/@harigowtham/debian-and-ubuntu-packaging-from-the-same-machine-5a0ee4e74e07
)
### 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? - Amar
- 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 use case, 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
* [Aravinda] close the stale projects from gluster repo
* [Deepshikha] 4-5 issues failing on centos8 regression
* [Aravinda] initiate the mail thread for maintainers meeting
### Action Items on host
* Check-in Minutes of meeting for this meeting
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