On 04/24/2017 10:10 AM, Dominique Martinet wrote: > Hi folks, > > Daniel Gryniewicz wrote on Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 09:48:33AM -0400: >> After a discussion with Matt, here's my thoughts. >> >> 1. We want -dev versions of Ganesha to track Master versions of Ceph. >> This makes development much easier for us, and shouldn't cause problems, >> since -dev versions aren't packaged. This also makes upstream Ceph >> happier, with is CI integration. > > A quick note on that, is that when the ceph requirement is bumped up the > CEA bot will likely fail builds as well until someone here updates it -- > but I guess as it currently says it's OK we might already have given up > on that...
I'm happy leaving Ceph builds to Ceph upstream. Automation is basically done at this point, and I'll get with Ali to see about adding Gerrithub integration. > >> 2. Matt doesn't want to maintain a compatibility layer. I can >> understand this. >> >> 3. Once Ganesha enters -rc, we suddenly care about what is shipping in >> distros, since test packages have to be made. >> >> Our proposal is this: >> >> Branch when Ganesha goes into -rc, rather than on .0 release. This >> allows us to modify the -rc version of Ganesha to build and work against >> the then-extant versions of Ceph in the distros, and not have to worry >> about syncing dev cycles between Ceph and Ganesha. > > Forking at -rc makes sense for me, as we can then only land fixes there > and continue with regular development on next. > The only black spot there is that it will give Frank more work (as there > will have to be two merges for a few weeks), so I guess ultimately it's > down to him. > Or hand the -rc off to the next version maintainer? But yes, slightly more work either way. (Of course, there may not be anything to merge for the next -dev, at least for a while) Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Nfs-ganesha-devel mailing list Nfs-ganesha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs-ganesha-devel
