How is testing going? Any updates? Shall I set up an etherpad to track this?
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 4:45 AM, Vijay Bellur <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 8:41 PM, Niels de Vos <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 09:18:14AM -0700, Amye Scavarda wrote: > >> > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 6:41 AM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri < > >> > [email protected]> wrote: > >> > > >> > > Hi, > >> > > > >> > > We've tagged and released glusterfs-3.9rc1. This is the 1st Release > >> > > Candidate for GlusterFS 3.9.0. > >> > > > >> > > https://build.gluster.org/job/release/171/console > >> > > > >> > > http://bits.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/src/ > glusterfs-3.9rc1.tar.gz > >> > > > >> > > The release-notes still need some work for a GA release: > >> > > https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/release-3.9/ > >> > > doc/release-notes/3.9.0.md > >> > > > >> > > Once we have some useful release-notes, we can send out a > notification > >> > > to the users list and other more public channels. > >> > > > >> > > Packages for CentOS-7 are available from the Community Build System: > >> > > https://cbs.centos.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=111151 > >> > > > >> > > Other distributions may want to verify their packaging too. > >> > > > >> > > The current plan is to release 3.9.0 in the first few days of > October. > >> > > > >> > > I'm going to strongly suggest that we not do this the first few days > >> > > of > >> > October, let's plan a release after Gluster Developer Summit. A great > >> > many > >> > of the community will be traveling, and we have a great opportunity to > >> > test > >> > further with a lot of us in the same room. > >> > >> I do not think any of the attendees have time during the Gluster > >> Developer Summit. The schedule is quite packed, and at the same time > >> LinuxCon and the Open Source Storage Summit take place. The days will be > >> *very* busy already: > >> https://www.gluster.org/events/schedule2016/ > >> > >> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe/ > program/schedule > >> > >> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe/ > extend-the-experience/co-located-events > >> > >> > Mid-October instead? > >> > >> I'd like to see us keeping our promise of doing a release every 3 > >> months. The initial schedule was to release before the end of September, > >> moving it to after the summit and travelling (and additional Indian > >> holidays?) does not look optimal to me. > > > > > > If Aravinda and I see that the maintainers get back well before next > Friday > > with the test results, we will be happy to do the release on time. > > > > +1. We need to review functional and performance test results before > this release. I request maintainers to go beyond running *.t tests and > run tests in a real cluster so that we catch obvious regressions > before GA. Given that we do not plan to do (m)any minor releases in > 3.9, it would be ideal to not have regressions in 3.9.0. Else we will > end up consuming cycles spinning up minor releases. > > I would also like us to review our documentation to ensure: > > - We have clear instructions on upgrading in release notes > - Admin guide is up to date with feature inclusions in 3.9 > - 3.9 feature pages indicate actual status as of GA > - Clear messaging for users about this release (i.e. not LTS, upgrade > only for checking out new features etc.) > > Thanks, > Vijay > -- Pranith
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