15:01:57 #startmeeting Weekly Community Meeting 15:01:57 Meeting started Wed Mar 23 15:01:57 2016 UTC. The chair is kshlm. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 15:01:57 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 15:01:57 The meeting name has been set to 'weekly_community_meeting' 15:02:00 Hi all! 15:02:08 \o/ 15:02:09 Welcome to today's meeting 15:02:16 #topic Rollcall 15:02:20 * overclk is here 15:02:22 * shyam is here 15:02:28 * post-factum is here 15:02:33 * jdarcy o_O 15:02:41 * atinm waves 15:02:55 * Jiffin is here 15:03:17 Good let's start. 15:03:32 * JoeJulian nods. 15:03:54 As always the agenda is available at https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/gluster-community-meetings 15:04:13 #topic Next's weeks meeting moderator 15:04:30 Since I always keep forgetting this, let's do this first today. 15:04:38 kshlm, +1 15:04:43 wise step! 15:04:46 Any volunteers for hosting next weeks meeting? 15:05:05 atinm, +1 for being the next weeks host? 15:05:17 kshlm, a big NO 15:05:24 Anyone else? 15:05:30 kshlm: Is it at the same time as today's meeting? 15:05:46 Nope. It's back to 12UTC next week. 15:05:58 * msvbhat arrives bit late 15:06:05 I dunno if we'll be continuing the rotating times into April. 15:06:09 We should have a vote on it. 15:06:38 ok, then I cannot volunteer for the 12:00 UTC slot, sorry 15:06:43 kshlm, I don't like this model where only few people would be hosting every time 15:07:06 shyam, Thanks for the interest. 15:07:16 18:00 CET (Amsterdam, etc.) ← I believe this should be 16:00 CET (in pad) 15:07:16 Maybe you can host the next 15UTC meeting. 15:07:17 I nominate myself. 15:07:28 Thanks jdarcy! 15:07:32 I'd offer but I'll be at a conference. 15:07:32 kshlm: yes, I can take the 15UTC one 15:07:53 jdarcy, thank you! 15:08:06 #info jdacy will host the community meeting on 30/Mar/2016 15:08:11 Okay. 15:08:21 Onto last weeks AIs. 15:08:27 #topic Last weeks AIs 15:08:40 #topic kkeithley to send a mail about using sanity checker tools in the codebase 15:08:57 This hasn't been done yet. 15:09:12 I'll carry it forward. 15:09:16 #action kkeithley to send a mail about using sanity checker tools in the codebase 15:09:34 #topic kshlm & csim to set up faux/pseudo user email for gerrit, bugzilla, github 15:09:39 Again not done. 15:09:50 #action kshlm & csim to set up faux/pseudo user email for gerrit, bugzilla, github 15:10:01 #topic msvbhat will add a HOWTO for DiSTAF for developers to write tests 15:10:10 msvbhat, How's this coming along? 15:10:36 You'd shared a small snippet yesterday. 15:11:13 msvbhat, Are you still here? 15:11:16 kshlm: That's done 15:11:22 Good to know. 15:11:25 * msvbhat fetching links 15:11:33 I was just about to ask for them 15:11:37 https://github.com/gluster/distaf/blob/master/docs/HOWTO.md 15:11:43 and 15:11:44 https://github.com/gluster/distaf/blob/master/README.md 15:11:55 Thanks msvbhat 15:12:02 #info https://github.com/gluster/distaf/blob/master/docs/HOWTO.md 15:12:05 #info https://github.com/gluster/distaf/blob/master/README.md 15:12:08 It'll be nice if you announce on the mailing list as well. 15:12:08 There are some small mistakes (spellcheck etc) I will send different patch to that 15:12:31 Yes, I will do that after running a spell check and proof reading it once 15:12:31 Should we try to get these somewhere more visible? 15:12:43 jdarcy, More visible as in? 15:12:51 A blog post? :D 15:12:57 * amye is only halfway here 15:12:59 jdarcy: I wish to make a asciinema + video next week 15:13:06 amye: ^^ 15:13:13 msvbhat: That would be awesome. 15:13:37 kshlm: Blog post would be good, somewhere on the development-workflow page too. 15:14:12 Okay, There is one more question I wish to ask, but will wait for the open floor 15:14:30 Wouldn't the mailing list be enough? 15:14:48 +1 for workflow page 15:14:57 +1 for workflow page :) 15:15:04 New developers should be able to find what they need in one place. 15:15:22 Sorry guys got disconnected. 15:15:31 So I'm assuming it proposed to add distaf to the dev workflow guide? 15:15:36 +1 from me. 15:15:52 msvbhat, Could you do this as well? 15:15:59 Okay... 15:16:03 THanks. 15:16:15 #action msvbhat to announce DiSTAF HOWTO on mailing lists 15:16:22 So to be precise, I need to add these links to workflow page with small description right? 15:16:28 jdarcy: ^^ ??? 15:16:37 #action msvbhat to add links to DiSTAF on the dev workflow page. 15:16:43 msvbhat, Yup. 15:16:55 msvbhat: Correct. 15:17:14 Great, Will 15:17:17 *will do 15:17:21 Thanks msvbhat 15:17:28 #topic overclk to share notes from DHT2 discussion with jdarcy 15:17:46 kshlm, here's the link: http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-March/048874.html 15:17:47 overclk, I saw your mail. Could you add a link here please. 15:17:57 Thank you. 15:18:05 #url http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-March/048874.html 15:18:08 Thanks overclk 15:18:23 #topic jdarcy to share his notes from his Bangalore discussions with the community 15:18:31 Not done. Will do today. 15:18:50 Good to know. I'll carry this over. 15:18:54 #action jdarcy to share his notes from his Bangalore discussions with the community 15:19:07 #topic kshlm to ping jdarcy to share his notes 15:19:12 Just did. ;) 15:19:17 Well I pinged right now. 15:19:21 So done. 15:19:36 This is probably the latest anyone will ever complete an AI. 15:19:48 :) 15:19:55 #topic ndevos to reach out to packagers about 3.5.9 packaging 15:20:23 I don't remember seeing any mails on the packaging list. 15:20:30 So this is being carried over as well. 15:20:33 #action ndevos to reach out to packagers about 3.5.9 packaging 15:20:47 We're done with the AIs 15:20:54 #topic GlusterFS 3.7 15:21:02 In other AI news, AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol. ;) 15:21:11 3.7.9 was released! Hurray! 15:21:17 Yay! 15:21:38 yep, and still not all memleak patches included :( 15:21:55 jdarcy: so that's 3-1 to AlphaGo I presume 15:22:20 post-factum, We'll try to get them all in 3.7.10 15:22:57 Can someone find the link to hagarth's announcement email? 15:23:08 I can't seem to find it in gmane/ 15:23:21 I don't see any memory-leak patches still pending on Gerrit. Any links? 15:23:42 #link https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-March/048845.html 15:23:49 #link http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-March/048845.html 15:24:07 Thanks post-factum & jiffin 15:24:09 #link https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1318376#c3 15:24:09 Bug 1318376: unspecified, unspecified, ---, vbellur, ASSIGNED , Tracker for glusterfs-3.7.10 15:24:19 discussed with skoduri ^^ 15:24:33 comment #3 15:25:13 OK, so 2/3 are merged in master. Is this a problem with missing backports, then? 15:25:29 correct, 3.7 does not have that backported 15:25:43 anyway, we've just cherry-picked them for own build :) 15:25:56 jdarcy, since rpc_* related fixes are very intricate and resulting other regressions, wedecide to give them enough soak-in time before backporting to stable branch 15:26:15 *we decided 15:26:43 since 3.7.10 release shall be a month away, we can take them then 15:26:45 OK, that's fine. Just wanted to understand the context. 15:27:03 also, any comments on this: 15:27:07 #link https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1318289 15:27:08 Bug 1318289: low, unspecified, ---, ravishankar, NEW , [RFE] Add arbiter brick hotplug 15:27:15 ? 15:27:23 skoduri, How much soak-in time do you think you need? 15:27:23 Will they be in for 3.7.10? 15:27:24 (which according to schedule should be tagged next week) 15:28:11 kshlm, As I mentioned above as we have a month time for 3.7.10 to be released, we can take in that release I suppose 15:28:34 skoduri, But we do not infact have a month. 15:28:38 :) 15:28:38 skoduri, that's not right 15:28:53 kshlm, oh 15:29:16 sorry but I thought all the releases have a month gap (3.7 atleast) 15:29:20 So now lets come to the topic of 3.7.10 15:29:21 That brings up a point regarding process. As a general rule, minor releases are supposed to be about bug fixes and not new features. Is this worth an exception? 15:30:46 3.7.9, for example, introduced new features like fallocate/discard with sharding 15:30:59 skoduri, if we go with the schedule then we do have a month's gap, but 3.7.9 is already delayed and we had some conversation around the release schedule in one of the last meetings and people voted to stick to the release schedule 15:30:59 jdarcy, Ideally minor releases should just be bug-fixes. But we don't seem to be doing that. 15:31:42 But this seems to be an enhancement to a larger feature. 15:31:53 atinm, thanks..sorry I had missed the details 15:32:03 skoduri, no issues :) 15:32:32 If an enhancement makes data safer and/or the system more stable, then I think it should be the exception to the bug-fix-only rule. 15:33:09 What would add-brick support for arbiter come under? 15:33:14 I'm OK with that. 15:33:32 it definitely makes data safer within existing feature 15:33:35 kshlm: imho, both. 15:33:47 post-factum, I think so too. 15:33:51 JoeJulian, yup. 15:34:18 So this can be taken in, if Ravi finishes the change. 15:34:48 Cool. 15:35:00 Now I'd like to also discuss 3.7.10 release times. 15:35:12 We've nearly slipped by a month for 3.7.9, 15:35:25 So should we still try and stick to 30th for 3.7.10? 15:35:56 it is only one week from now 15:36:00 post-factum, Yup. 15:36:15 kshlm, if we have some volume (say ~20 patches) I will still stick to it 15:36:25 How many fixes can go in before 30th? 15:36:41 But from our history, we know it takes at least 1 more week to get the packages ready and announcement to be made. 15:36:51 shortlog: 15:36:53 #link http://termbin.com/4nus2 15:37:29 Oh wow! 15:37:38 We've got so many changes merged already! 15:38:16 if this pace continues we should have a good enough volume of fixes coming in. 15:38:34 So I think we still should target 30th. 15:38:43 Does everyone agree? 15:39:09 * msvbhat nods 15:39:13 79 files changed, 1897 insertions(+), 532 deletions(-) :) 15:39:34 Looks worthy to me 15:39:36 kshlm, I do 15:39:58 #agreed Stick to 30th for 3.7.10 15:40:15 post-factum, You should be getting your fixes soon :) 15:40:18 post-factum , one of those rpc_* fixes is not yet reviewed/merged in master ...we shall then try to back-port already merged patches (at-least) provided regression tests pass of-course 15:40:43 kshlm: skoduri: thx, we are also testing them now 15:40:57 kshlm, can you send a note to hagarth as well since he will also manage 3.7.10? 15:41:06 atinm, I will. 15:41:31 #action kshlm to update hagarth of 3.7.10 date 15:41:36 Okay. 15:41:44 So anything else on 3.7? 15:42:00 Good. 15:42:06 #topic GlusterFS 3.6 15:42:20 I've got no clue what's happening in 3.6 recently. 15:42:33 Is raghu / rabhat around? 15:44:28 I guess rabhat needs to be prodded. 15:44:41 3.6.10 due tagging on the 20th. 15:44:51 I should check post-factum's list of memory leaks against 3.6 and see if I need any of them. 15:44:58 s/due/was due/ 15:45:24 JoeJulian: you may look at 3.7.7/8/9 tracking bugs. I listed them all there 15:45:34 oh, and 3.7.10 as well 15:45:44 Add them to the 3.6.10 tracker 15:45:53 #url https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-3.6.10 15:45:54 Bug glusterfs: could not be retrieved: InvalidBugId 15:46:00 Will do. 15:46:09 #action kshlm to ask rabhat for an update on 3.6.10 15:46:27 I don't think we have anything further to add on 3.6 15:46:30 So.. 15:46:36 #topic GlusterFS 3.5 15:47:12 silence 15:47:34 None of the release-maintainers are here. 15:47:37 :/ 15:48:38 3.5.9 has been tagged, but hasn't been announced yet. 15:48:48 Makes it tricky to get release conversation going. 15:48:55 ndevos should have just gotten back home. 15:49:39 kshlm: From BLR? 15:50:36 Yes 15:53:18 * msvbhat looks around for kshlm 15:53:43 oh, seems to be disconnected 15:54:22 Come back, kshlm. We miss you. 15:54:26 :) 15:54:31 jdarcy, :) 15:54:31 ant failover here :)? 15:54:35 *any 15:54:48 * msvbhat votes for atinm :) 15:55:01 kshlm is back! 15:55:02 here.. he's back.. 15:55:03 * jdarcy \o/ 15:55:22 This is embrassing. I got disconnected again. 15:55:39 Where was I? 15:55:41 and we just have 5 more minutes as per schedule 15:55:43 3.5 15:55:43 You really should build a better internet provider. 15:55:43 It's OK, no split-brains were created. 15:56:06 JoeJulian, The problem is there are none better around my home :/ 15:56:18 That's why you have to build it. ;) 15:56:26 JoeJulian++ 15:56:28 post-factum: JoeJulian's karma is now 4 15:56:42 So we were discussing 3.5 was it. 15:57:02 Or discussing the lack of ability to discuss 3.5. 15:57:16 Yup. No maintainers around. 15:57:18 kshlm: no ndevos here, so go on 15:57:31 In anycase, I'll be pinging ndevos for an update. 15:57:39 That's going to make it hard to talk about 3.8 either. 15:57:40 #topic GlusterFS 3.8 & 4.0 15:57:54 Jiffin, can you talk about 3.8 ? 15:58:09 GlusterFS 3.8 is progressing well 15:58:10 I forgot jiffin was around! 15:58:36 few features in roadmap still misses the feature page 15:59:02 Jiffin, so as per ndevos'es mail have you guys taken an action ;) 15:59:02 I send out a reminder to feature owners 15:59:26 #link http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-March/048847.html 15:59:31 atinm, yes 16:00:31 those features will move to "at risk" category in 3.8 roadmap 16:00:36 IIRC, ndevos said that he wouldn't accept any new features without feature pages after last sunday. 16:00:45 Jiffin, I was actually not talking about a reminder 16:01:02 Is this still true? Or are you still waiting for the stragglers? 16:01:10 atinm, K 16:01:21 Jiffin, yup, that's what I meant what kshlm is saying 16:02:01 kshlm waiting for couple of days 16:02:18 Jiffin, Okay. 16:02:23 #link https://www.gluster.org/community/roadmap/3.8/ 16:02:30 Thanks for the update Jiffin 16:02:38 So onto 4.0. 16:02:51 jdarcy, over to you? 16:02:55 We should have a better showing here. 16:03:06 Back to NSR, pushing patches, etc. :) 16:03:32 I'll let Atin and Shyam talk about their pieces. 16:03:37 dht2 we are getting back to design and coding after a hiatus 16:04:01 dht2 POC was done, but out of the gluster git tree 16:04:21 We are restarting coding afresh on master 16:04:44 For dht2 in the near future, expect more design documents and some code to trickle in 16:04:56 * shyam is done with his update 16:05:07 shyam, Awesome. 16:05:15 atinm, Now you. 16:05:53 * kshlm doesn't think a lot of progress has happened on GD2 over the last couple of weeks. 16:06:00 As far GD2.0 is concerned myself and kshlm shared couple of updates, one was on ETCD bootstrapping and the other on the design discussion with jdarcy on flexi volgen, plugin etc 16:06:25 * kshlm hasn't had much progress anyway. 16:06:28 I should round all this up into a blog post or something. 16:06:36 I am getting a bit ambitious now to move GD2 repo into experimental folder in main repo 16:06:47 atinm: yay! 16:06:56 atinm, I'm not still sure if we should. 16:07:03 Right away. 16:07:18 kshlm, why do you think that so? 16:07:20 But we can start figuring out how we will move. 16:07:28 kshlm, because its still not matured enough? 16:07:30 Still way too much to be done IMO. 16:08:13 but there is no harm at the same time if we move it to the main repo 16:08:40 there will be an effort required which would be one time and I don't find any strong reason why we can't spend that right away 16:09:45 And yes once we get the transaction framework patch ready we should be able to fit the volume commands following the framework 16:09:52 atinm, It will slow down our current efforts a lot. 16:09:57 that's kind of an overall plan for the coming month 16:10:04 * atinm is done with his parts 16:10:27 Moving into the main repo will require investing time figuring out proper build mechanism. 16:10:54 This is going to take a lot of effort right now. 16:10:56 Pretty soon we'll have to figure out how to deal with building a golang executable as part of our patch-acceptance process. 16:11:04 kshlm, my whole point is if you do it now or do it later, effort wise it would be same 16:11:43 Let's take continue this discussion later. 16:12:18 We're way over time. 16:12:20 kshlm, we can debate over an email as we are running out of time and I don't want people to curse me to screw up their dinner time (IST) 16:12:33 Anything further to discuss? 16:12:40 I had something in open floow 16:12:44 *floor 16:12:53 yup, back to 3.7 as well... 16:13:08 But if its over time, I can update through mail 16:13:24 Its about distaf testcase location. 16:13:24 post-factum, Did you have any thing to say? 16:13:30 #link https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1309462 16:13:31 Bug 1309462: low, unspecified, ---, ravishankar, MODIFIED , Upgrade from 3.7.6 to 3.7.8 causes massive drop in write performance. Fresh install of 3.7.8 also has low write performance 16:13:44 msvbhat, The mailing list will be a better place for that discussion. 16:13:45 is there any update on it? i mean new bugreport against arbiter 16:14:13 kshlm: Many people are slow to respond. Maybe I'll put them in cc this time :) 16:14:22 post-factum, unfortunately none of the afr developers are here to provide an answer that. 16:14:31 :( okay 16:14:45 hagarth: said that's fixed in 3.7.9 16:15:15 atalur, are you around to take care pf post-factum's question? 16:16:17 it seems 3.7.9 has some improvements, but to to the level of 3.7.6 16:16:30 https://botbot.me/freenode/gluster/msg/62715406/ 16:17:27 (no selinux here) 16:17:39 he wasn't referring to selinux 16:18:07 I've got another meeting. Thanks kshlm! 16:18:26 You're welcome JoeJulian . 16:18:36 ok, will test to get fresh numbers against 3.7.9 and write to old bugreport 16:18:47 post-factum, Maybe you should ping itisravi for answers when he's online tomorrow. 16:19:00 kshlm: ok, will try 16:19:04 So that should be it. 16:19:13 Here are the weekly announcements. 16:19:30 Next weeks meeting will be at 1200UTC. 16:19:47 If you're attending any event/conference please add the event and yourselves to Gluster attendance of events: https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/gluster-events 16:19:48 Put (even minor) interesting topics on https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/gluster-weekly-news 16:19:48 Use the following etherpad for backport requests  https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/gluster-backport-requests 16:20:14 * kshlm is wondering if anyone is using the backport-requests etherpad. 16:20:25 Thanks everyone for attending today's meeting. 16:20:28 thx! 16:20:30 #endmeeting