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Gluster Monthly Newsletter, January 2019

Amye Scavarda
2019-01-31

Gluster Monthly Newsletter, January 2019

Gluster Community Survey – open from February 1st through February 28! Give us your feedback, we’ll send you a never before seen Gluster branded item!  https://www.gluster.org/gluster-community-survey-february-2019/

 

See you at FOSDEM! We have a jampacked Software Defined Storage day on Sunday, Feb 3rd  (with a few sessions on the previous day): https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/software_defined_storage/

We also have a shared stand with Ceph, come find us!

 

Gluster 6 – We’re in planning for our Gluster 6 release, currently scheduled for Feb-March 2019. More details on the mailing lists at https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2018-November/055672.html

 

Contributors

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

Top Contributors in January: Amar Tumballi, Kinglong Mee, Sunny Kumar, Susant Palai, Ravishankar N  

Noteworthy Threads:

[Gluster-users] GCS 0.5 release –

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-January/035597.html

[Gluster-users] Announcing Gluster release 5.3 and 4.1.7 –

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-January/035656.html

[Gluster-users] Improvements to Gluster upstream documentation –

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-January/035741.html

[Gluster-devel] Tests for the GCS stack using the k8s framework

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-January/055765.html

[Gluster-devel] Gluster Maintainer’s meeting: 7th Jan, 2019 – Agenda

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-January/055767.html

[Gluster-devel] Implementing multiplexing for self heal client.

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-January/055768.html

[Gluster-devel] Regression health for release-5.next and release-6

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-January/055775.html

[Gluster-devel] FUSE directory filehandle

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-January/055776.html

[Gluster-devel] Latency analysis of GlusterFS’ network layer for pgbench

 

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-January/055782.html

[Gluster-devel] Release 6: Kick off!

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-January/055793.html

[Gluster-devel] Maintainer’s meeting: Jan 21st, 2019

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-January/055798.html

[Gluster-devel] Infer results – Glusterfs

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-January/055814.html

 

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