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Gluster Monthly Newsletter, April 2019

Amye Scavarda
2019-04-26

Upcoming Community Happy Hour at Red Hat Summit! Tue, May 7, 2019, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM EDT

https://cephandglusterhappyhour_rhsummit.eventbrite.com has all the details.

Gluster 7 Roadmap

Discussion kicked off for our 7 roadmap on the mailing lists, see [Gluster-users] GlusterFS v7.0 (and v8.0) roadmap discussion https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-March/036139.html for more details.

Community Survey Feedback is available! Come see how other people are using Gluster and what features they’d like!

https://www.gluster.org/community-survey-feedback-2019/

Gluster Friday Five: Find our Friday Five podcast at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfilWh0JA5NfCjbqq1vsBVA

 

Contributors

Top Contributing Companies:  Red Hat, Comcast, DataLab, Gentoo Linux, Facebook, BioDec, Samsung, Etersoft

Top Contributors in April: Atin Mukherjee, Sanju Rakonde, Kotresh HR, Pranith Kumar Karampuri, Kinglong Mee

 

Noteworthy Threads:

[Gluster-users] [Gluster-devel] Upgrade testing to gluster 6 https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-April/036229.html

[Gluster-users] Heketi v9.0.0 available for download https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-April/036285.html

[Gluster-users] Proposal: Changes in Gluster Community meetings

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-April/036337.html

[Gluster-users] XFS, WORM and the Year-2038 Problem

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-April/036356.html

[Gluster-users] Community Happy Hour at Red Hat Summit

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-April/036422.html

[Gluster-devel] Backporting important fixes in release branches

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-April/056041.html

[Gluster-devel] BZ updates

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-April/056153.html

 

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