2019-11-12-Community-Meeting.md

Gluster Community Meeting - 12 Nov 2019

Previous Meeting minutes:

• http://github.com/gluster/community
• Recording of this meeting - https://bluejeans.com/s/klEr1

Date/Time: Check the community calendar

Bridge

• APAC friendly hours
  • Tuesday 12 November 2019, 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

Name (#gluster-dev alias) - company

• Sheetal Pamecha (spamecha) - Red Hat
• Shwetha Acharya (sacharya) - Red Hat
• Rishubh Jain (risjain) - Red Hat
• Vishal Pandey - Red Hat
• Hari Gowtham - Red Hat.
• Sanju Rakonde
• Rinku Kothiya (rkothiya) - Red Hat.

User stories

• Reduce locking Contention - patch posted upstream by chengwai - https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/23685/

Community

• Project metrics:

Metrics	Value
Coverity	54
Clang Scan	58
Test coverage	70.9%
New Bugs in last 14 days master 7.x 6.x 5.x	4 6 1 1
Gluster User Queries in last 14 days	50
Total Bugs	353
Total Github issues	419

• Any release updates? Hari - release blocker for release 7 - planning to mark centos 6 issue as known issue(to be fixed in 7.1) and proceed with release

• Blocker issues across the project? Nil

• Notable thread form mailing list Nil

Conferences / Meetups

• Developers' Conference -

1. Devconf.cz Important dates: CFP Closes- closed Schedule Announcement- TBA Event Open for Registration- Dec 9, 2019 Last Date of Registration- TBA Event dates- January 24-26, 2020 Venue- Brno, Czech Republic

2. FOSDEM'20 Important dates: CFP Closed- closed for main track, for storage dev room - 24 Nov, 2019 Schedule Announcement- TBA Event Open for Registration- Last Date of Registration- Event dates: 1 & 2 February 2020 Venue: Brussels (Belgium)

Talks related to gluster:

• [Name] [Topic] - [Conference]

GlusterFS - v7.0 and beyond

• Proposal - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rtn38S4YBe77KK5IjczWmoAR-ZSO-i3tNHg9pAH8Wt8/edit?usp=sharing
• Proposed Plan:
  • GlusterFS-7.0 (Blocked) - Stability, Automation - Only
  • GlusterFS-8.0 (Feb 1st, 2020) - - Plan for Fedora 32/RHEL8.2
  • GlusterFS-9.0 (June 1st, 2020) Reflink, io_uring, and similar improvements.
  • Gluster X (December 2020)

Developer focus

• Any design specs to discuss?

Component status

• Arbiter - Nil
• AFR - Nil
• DHT - Nil
• EC - Nil
• FUSE - Nil
• POSIX - Nil
• DOC - Nit fixes
• Geo Replication - Backports to be merged
• libglusterfs - Nil
• Glusterd - Nil
• Snapshot - Nil
• NFS - Nil
• thin-arbiter - Nil

Flash Talk Gluster

• Typical 5 min talk about Gluster with up to 5 more minutes for questions

Recent Blog posts / Document updates

• https://severalnines.com/database-blog/deploying-highly-available-nextcloud-mysql-galera-cluster-and-glusterfs
• https://itnext.io/oracle-always-free-cloud-instances-in-ha-configuration-e1d3dd59d3b1
• https://medium.com/@harigowtham/glusterfs-quota-fix-accounting-840df33fcd3a
• https://medium.com/star-systems-labs/finding-gluster-volumes-in-kubernetes-d5552b495665

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? - Hari
  • 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 usecase, 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

• Status update on moving from gerrit to github.
• Reducing Regression time in upstream - Deepshikha and Barak

Action Items on host

• Check-in Minutes of meeting for this meeting