15:01:32 #startmeeting Weekly Gluster Community Meeting 09-Mar-2016 15:01:32 Meeting started Wed Mar 9 15:01:32 2016 UTC. The chair is kshlm. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 15:01:32 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 15:01:32 The meeting name has been set to 'weekly_gluster_community_meeting_09-mar-2016' 15:01:39 #topic Rollcall 15:01:42 Hey kshlm 15:01:50 Raise you're hands if you're here! 15:01:52 * msvbhat is here 15:01:56 * kshlm o/ 15:01:58 * overclk is here 15:02:01 _o/ 15:02:27 * aravindavk here 15:02:29 * amye is here 15:02:32 o/ 15:02:32 Someone should have set the topic to change of timing 15:03:18 I announced the change last meeting, and sent an invite in the minutes. 15:03:41 I would have also set the topic, but I'm not a OP. 15:04:08 This is all we have today? 15:04:23 * sankarshan is lurking :) 15:04:33 Let's start. More can join later. 15:04:51 As always, the agenda is at https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/gluster-community-meetings 15:05:02 #topic Last weeks AIs 15:05:18 #topic kkeithley to send a mail about using sanity checker tools in the codebase 15:05:25 There, fixed that. 15:05:30 :D 15:05:43 amye, Thanks! 15:05:59 So kkeithley isn't around, and no mail has been seen on this topic. 15:06:14 I'll carry this forward. 15:06:29 I'll force him to do it next week when he's in Bangalore. 15:06:35 #action kkeithley to send a mail about using sanity checker tools in the codebase 15:07:08 #topic kshlm & csim to set up faux/pseudo user email for gerrit, bugzilla, github 15:07:15 THis isn't done yet. 15:07:50 But csim started a discussion on this as a response to a gerrit-github replication request. We should be continuing forward from that. 15:08:31 #link https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-infra/2016-March/001962.html 15:08:49 This is csim's post, if anyone wants to chip in please do. 15:09:17 I'll carry over this AI to next week. Now that we finally have some action on this, we should se it resolved soon. 15:09:30 #action kshlm & csim to set up faux/pseudo user email for gerrit, bugzilla, github 15:09:40 #topic kshlm to ping amye to update website to point to correct release 15:09:45 I believe I did this. 15:09:53 If you did, I missed that email. 15:09:57 amye, Did I? 15:10:11 Now I'm not sure. 15:10:35 Alright, we'll take it offline. 15:10:39 Yup I did. 15:11:01 Let's take it up after the meeting. 15:11:22 #topic ndevos will send out 3.5.8 announcement after the meeting 15:11:47 He did. But not right after the meeting. 15:11:59 https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-March/025717.html 15:12:09 #link https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2016-March/025717.html 15:12:14 post-factum, Thanks. 15:12:22 I wonder what ndevos is doing. 15:12:37 I think he had this meeting on his agenda for Bangalore. 15:13:00 #topic kshlm to ask hagarth to provide an update on 3.7.9 15:13:21 Done. And hagarth also sent out an announcement on his plans. 15:13:44 #link https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-March/048598.html 15:13:59 #topic msvbhat will add a HOWTO for DiSTAF for developers to write tests 15:14:12 msvbhat, I've not seen this yet. 15:14:28 I've also not been following the DiSTAF repo to check if this happened. 15:14:32 It's not completed yet. I have basic draft with me. But needs lot of updates before pushing 15:14:53 kshlm: ^^ Please carry this to next week. 15:15:09 I will complete by next week. 15:15:19 msvbhat, Sure. 15:15:28 #action msvbhat will add a HOWTO for DiSTAF for developers to write tests 15:15:39 #topic msvbhat to mail gluster-devel soliciting opinions on location of DiSTAF tests. 15:15:44 You did this. 15:15:49 Yes 15:15:50 msvbhat, could you point to the draft? 15:15:53 And I've already replied. 15:16:02 sankarshan, draft for the HOWTO? 15:16:06 yes please 15:16:06 yes, I saw. 15:16:16 sankarshan: The HOTO draft? 15:16:21 *HOTO 15:16:21 yes please 15:16:39 msvbhat, your 'W' button isn't working :) 15:16:46 sankarshan: Okay, I will send you later 15:16:48 take mine: "W" 15:16:58 alright-y. thanks 15:17:01 :) My mistake. *HOWTO 15:17:03 #link https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-March/048664.html 15:17:40 msvbhat, Send it out to the community. Not just sankarshan. We'd all like to see the draft as well. 15:18:04 #topic overclk to share notes from DHT2 discussion with jdarcy 15:18:18 kshlm: Oh, For that I need some time. This is not ready yet 15:18:24 kshlm, mostly next week. 15:18:33 overclk, Okay. 15:18:37 kshlm: I will send in two days then 15:18:41 #action overclk to share notes from DHT2 discussion with jdarcy 15:18:55 #topic jdarcy to share his notes from his Bangalore discussions with the community 15:19:23 This hasn't happened yet. I guess someone needs to prod jdarcy to do this. 15:20:03 #action jdarcy to share his notes from his Bangalore discussions with the community 15:20:15 And I'll ping him to do this. 15:20:31 #action kshlm to ping jdarcy to share his notes 15:20:32 * sankarshan sage nods at "Bangalore" discussions :) 15:20:55 #topic kshlm/atinm to share notes on the GD2 discussions with jdarcy 15:21:21 I was writing all this up before the meeting, thinking I still had an hour left to the meeting. 15:21:44 Timezones-- 15:21:45 amye: Timezones's karma is now -1 15:21:46 Turned out I'd temporarily forgotten to read my watch. 15:21:59 this too shall pass 15:22:31 I expect to send complete it and send it out after the meeting. If I don't fall asleep first. 15:22:54 sankarshan, Just like almost all other AIs we have :) 15:23:06 #action kshlm/atinm to share notes on the GD2 discussions with jdarcy 15:23:20 #topic kshlm to start discussion on improving maintainer documentation https://gluster.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Contributors-Guide/Guidelines-For-Maintainers/ 15:23:35 I sent out a mail calling for suggestions. 15:24:11 #link https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/maintainers/2016-March/000451.html 15:24:34 There were a couple of replies from overclk and atinm. 15:24:46 kshlm, yeh. 15:24:46 if we are out of topics, I'd like to pose a query 15:24:49 Now we just need someone to send out the pull-requsts. 15:25:15 kshlm, does everyone (dis)agree with the suggestions? 15:25:25 or do we consider "no reply" == yes :) ? 15:25:32 sankarshan, We still have Glusterfs 3.{5,6,7,8} nad 4.0 to go. 15:25:42 * sankarshan will bide his time 15:25:44 overclk, We should just start assuming that from now on. 15:25:53 kshlm, works for me. 15:26:17 overclk, Will you be sending any PRs on this? 15:26:41 kshlm, I can do that for the maintainer updation part. 15:26:56 overclk, Go ahead. What ever you can contribute. 15:26:58 kshlm, However I haven't fully gone through atinm's comments.. 15:27:23 kshlm, I'll see what (all) can I accumulate and send a PR. 15:27:32 If you need to discuss anything further on this, we can continue on the mail thread. 15:27:41 #topic GlusterFS 3.7 15:28:01 I'd hoped hagarth would be around today. 15:28:17 This is what we changed times for. 15:28:43 But as mentioned earlier hagarth sent out an announcement calling for the last patches to be merged for 3.7.9 15:29:30 According to the mail he hoped to close .9 yesterday. But that hasn't happened. 15:29:50 Guess he needs to be prodded again. 15:30:53 some movement was around performance bug today 15:31:11 post-factum, Which bug? 15:31:30 kshlm: this one https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1309462 15:31:31 Bug 1309462: low, unspecified, ---, ravishankar, POST , 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 15:31:43 related commits has been reviewed 15:31:46 *have 15:32:16 Ah, maybe he's waiting to get them merged. 15:32:39 Status: ASSIGNED → POST 15:32:46 I believe it is almost done 15:33:05 The related commit is still waiting on regression to run. 15:33:22 Or at least didn't have any run yet. I just triggered them. 15:33:36 kshlm, also it would be good if http://review.gluster.org/#/c/13630/ would make it to .9 15:33:47 it's current running regression.. 15:33:51 overclk, Please let hagarth know about it. 15:34:01 It's upto him to make the decision as the release-manager. 15:34:03 kshlm, it's already in the tracked. 15:34:51 It would help if you explicitly stated it. Anything in the 3.7.9 tracker which doesn't get it, will be carried forward to the next release. 15:35:24 kshlm, will do. thanks! 15:35:27 Let's go onto 3.6 15:35:32 #topic GlusterFS 3.6 15:36:07 So 3.6.9 was announced by rabhat about 5 days back. 15:36:14 #link https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-March/048584.html 15:36:29 We're now in the 3.6.10 cycle. 15:36:46 I don't know if a tracker has been opened for it yet. 15:37:09 Not yet. 15:37:22 I'll get rabhat to do it. 15:37:51 #action rabhat to open a 3.6.10 tracker and close the .9 tracker, kshlm will ping him to do it. 15:38:08 #topic GlusterFS 3.5 15:38:48 3.5.8 has been announced. 15:39:23 And ndevos has already closed/cleaned/opened what ever is required. 15:39:45 The 3.5.9 tracker is available at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-3.5.9 15:39:46 Bug glusterfs: could not be retrieved: InvalidBugId 15:39:56 #topic GlusterFS 3.8 and 4.0 15:40:03 Anyone have any update? 15:40:10 s/update/updates/ 15:41:02 kshlm, nothing from my side on 4.0 15:41:12 I think ndevos will be sharing some information on the 3.8 release plans. 15:41:23 hagarth, Time you showed up! 15:41:29 kshlm: not much progress from my side too. 15:41:41 kshlm: what's up? 15:41:43 Heh. hagarth, any update on 3.8 release plans? 15:41:48 (current topic) 15:41:59 hagarth, what amye said. 15:42:01 amye: ndevos will be providing an update soon 15:42:13 ^ that was what I was saying. 15:42:23 :D 15:42:30 ok, we have consensus now :D 15:42:38 We don't seem to have any further 3.8/4.0 updates. 15:42:48 So hagarth an update on 3.7.9? 15:43:36 kshlm: still waiting for last 2-3 patches to be merged 15:43:46 some regressions are in progress atm 15:43:54 I will be running some tests after that 15:43:57 hagarth, Cool. Good to know. 15:44:05 if things look good, I plan to tag by end of this week 15:44:12 Thanks. 15:44:43 overclk, You can now find if your change is one among the 2-3 hagarth is tracking. 15:45:01 I have small question on 3.8 release. Can someone use distaf and provide feedback? And let me know if anything needs to be done before 3.8 relase 15:45:14 overclk: I am tracking a bitrot fix. is that the one? 15:45:31 msvbhat: have you discussed this with ndevos? 15:45:31 hagarth, yep. 15:45:40 thanks hagarth! 15:45:41 msvbhat, But we don't know how to use it. We don't have a HOWTO. :( 15:46:31 msvbhat, The sooner you we get the HOWTO, the sooner you get your feedback. 15:46:47 hagarth: few weeks ago, yes. Not now. Probably I will discuss with him tomorrow 15:46:54 hagarth, We'll be catching up with ndevos this week. 15:47:22 I think we're done with the topics for the day. 15:47:23 kshlm: Ah, yeah. Let me take it up on higher priority :) 15:47:30 sankarshan, You had something to discuss? 15:47:46 Oh, wait. 15:47:57 We need to choose next weeks meeting host. 15:48:04 #topic Next weeks meeting host? 15:48:10 We're moving the meeting back to the normal time, yes? 15:48:17 I put it on top so that I don't forget, and forgot about it. 15:48:20 amye, yes. 15:48:24 kshlm, msvbhat: ok 15:48:45 I was going to announce it at the end of the meeting. 15:48:58 * sankarshan did have something to put across - does the newsletter require additional individuals to enable a better coverage of topics 15:49:02 So who wants to host next's week at 1200UTC. 15:49:36 Any hosts? 15:49:43 * amye lets the conversation about meeting host go first but yes yes yes I would love more help on the newsletter. 15:50:35 Alright. I'll do it one more time for forgetting to bring this up earlier. 15:50:59 Heh. 15:51:02 #info kshlm to host next weeks meeting as well. 15:51:26 I'll not advance next weeks meeting without finding a volunteer. 15:51:38 kshlm: let us put a community meeting host calendar somewhere 15:51:56 sankarshan, amye, you guys have the stage. 15:52:05 hagarth, You and atinm had to do this IIRC. 15:52:13 #topic does the newsletter require additional individuals to enable a better coverage of topics 15:52:43 kshlm: I don't remember this AI - but let us see what we can do 15:52:48 and since amye states that it does and it would be nice, does that mean we need a call for roving reporters? 15:52:52 * kshlm is happy we're doing good on time this week 15:53:26 Getting more information about 1) upcoming releases and 2) things that we're currently working on, like distaf, etc, would be valuable. 15:53:39 The next newsletter is set to go out after the march 16th community meeting. 15:54:19 We'll be having updates on the new features in this meeting every week. 15:54:35 Couldn't we collate a months worth of updates for the newsletter? 15:54:36 alright. i'll try to impress upon msvbhat the way to include distaf and 3.8 etc into one small post 15:55:03 kshlm, we could, but the updates are things like 'oh yeah, working on that, will get back to you' :D 15:55:15 (in other words, i might just repurpose that above mentioned draft into a section for newsletter) 15:55:27 ++ 15:55:54 amye, Ah. Okay. 15:55:59 we should have a release reports kind of section 15:56:07 somewhat well summarized updates 15:56:20 I like this idea. 15:56:20 but ... one section/step at a time i guess 15:56:22 :D 15:56:34 sankarshan, Absolutely. If we're going to schedule, we should have 3 releases to report on. 15:56:56 But we'll start small for this one, April will be focusing on Vault and hopefully? a 3.8 release. 15:57:02 i'll ponder over this and steal/borrow ideas from other community newsletters 15:57:26 and that is all i had. 15:57:38 thanks for enabling this misc business discussion 15:57:52 Excellent. 15:57:54 sankarshan, So you're happy with borrowing msvbhats draft for now? 15:58:16 kshlm, i'll take a look at it and see what we can do with it. 15:58:27 we haven't had a look-see yet ;) 15:58:48 Okay. 15:59:06 Let us know when you need more reporters. 15:59:22 starting yesterday 15:59:33 :) 15:59:39 I can put out a call on the -devel list. 15:59:54 amye, that be fantastic to have 15:59:57 So that folks who weren't here can weigh in, I'm sure there are things that I'm missing. 16:00:09 So if there are no more topics to discuss, I'll be doing the weekly announcements and ending the meeting. 16:00:28 Thank you kshlm 16:00:30 #topic Announcements/Reminders 16:00:33 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 16:00:33 Put (even minor) interesting topics on https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/gluster-weekly-news 16:00:33 Use the following etherpad for backport requests https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/gluster-backport-requests 16:00:37 kshlm++ thank you! 16:00:52 IMPORTANT: Next weeks meeting 16/Mar/2016 will be held at 1200UTC. 16:01:03 Thanks for attending this weeks meeting everyone. 16:01:10 #endmeeting