2020-10-27-Community-Meeting.md

Gluster Community Meeting - 27/10/2020

Previous Meeting minutes:

• http://github.com/gluster/community
• Details of this meeting

Date/Time: Check the community calendar

Bridge

• APAC/EMEA friendly hours
  • Tuesday 13/10/2020, 02:30PM IST
  • Bridge: https://bluejeans.com/441850968
• NA
  • 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

• Nikhil Ladha - Red Hat
• sankarshan - Kadalu.IO
• Pranith Kumar Karampuri - PhonePe
• Vinayak Hariharmath - RedHat
• Ravi - Red Hat
• Sunil Kumar - Red Hat
• Amar Tumballi - Kadalu.IO
• Saju Mohammed - RedHat
• Shwetha Acharya - RedHat
• Aravinda Vishwanathapura (aravindavk) - Kadalu.io
• Csaba Henk - Red Hat
• Rinku Kothiya - Red Hat
• Barak Sason Rofman - Red Hat
• Deepshikha - Red Hat
• Srijan Sivakumar - Red Hat

User stories

• No new stories.

Community

• Project metrics:

Metrics	Value
Coverity	61
Clang Scan	87
Test coverage	70.9
Gluster User Queries in last 14 days	13
Total Github issues	401

• Any release updates?

  • [Rinku] We do not have enough patches tagged for Release7 and Release8 hence I propose to delay the release to next month, in case we get enough patches tagged for release-8 and release-7 we can consider releasing a build.

• Blocker / Severe issues across the project?

  • [Amar] gluster/glusterfs#1699
  • [Deepshika] Document mentioning the criterias to be a member of gluster org [Under review]

• Notable thread from mailing list

  • None

Conferences / Meetups

• Hacktoberfest
  • Event dates: The whole month of October.
  • Venue: Online

GlusterFS - v9.0 and beyond

• Gluster release 9 roadmap tracker
  • Everything is on track. Good progress on the issues.

Developer focus

• Any design specs to discuss?
  • Updated permissions for running regression tests
  • Stale bot
    • Topic raised by Pranith around gluster/glusterfs#910 (comment) with discussion around the stalebot workflow. Pranith to raise an issue track proposed changes to kick in stalebot earlier than the 7 month cycle
    • gluster/glusterfs#910 (look at the comment on stalebot)
    • We can choose to use a 'label'.
  • Quota - What next?
    • Check the RFC - https://kadalu.io/rfcs/0006-optimized-quota-feature-with-namespace.html
    • There is a need for the feature.

Component status

• Arbiter - Stable / Maintained
• AFR - Update on granular self-heal entry
• DHT - [Barak] Will send out an invite for a session regarding Global Layout and Rebalance enhancments
• EC - Satble / Maintained
• DOC - [Pranith] Will be sending out a PR for updates.
• Geo Replication - Stable
• Glusterd - Stable / Maintained

Recent Blog posts / Document updates

• None

Host

• Who will host next meeting? [Nikhil]
  • 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? [Nikhil]

RoundTable

• No concerns

Action Items on host

• Check-in Minutes of meeting for this meeting