Red Hat’s Open Source and Standards (OSAS) group, working with Bitergia, is capturing interesting data from some of the upstream projects with which Red Hat is deeply involved. On this page, you’ll find various vital signs from projects like oVirt, RDO, ManageIQ, and Gluster.
It’s useful for folks who are familiar with an open source project to be able to see, at a glance, the general trends for things like mailing list activity, IRC discussions, or how many bugs/issues are being opened and closed.
Overall, you hope to see more developer activity in projects, an upward trend in mailing list discussions and participants, and a healthy number of issues being opened–and closed–in the project’s bug tracker. Over time, numbers can fill in an important part of the story of a project.
It is, however, worth noting that numbers can be misleading. A lull in mailing list activity might be a sign that a project is slowing–or it might just be a sign that developers are heads-down working and being less chatty than usual. (Or it’s vacation season.) Lots of chatter in IRC might be a sign that a project is busy, or they might be discussing the World Cup extensively. (Or both!)
What you don’t see in the charts is the nature of discussions, whether discussions are productive or not, and how much actual work is being accomplished. For that, we have to be involved in the projects on a day-in, day-out basis.
Another word of warning before perusing the stats – comparing raw numbers for two dissimilar projects is not a valid way of measuring the health of two projects. For example, oVirt and RDO have different target audiences, and are at different stages of maturity. Comparing the growth in a “mature” community and a younger community is like comparing the vital signs and growth charts of a toddler and a young adult. If a toddler is showing rapid growth, that’s to be expected. You don’t really expect a 25-year-old to gain a few inches between checkups. (In fact, it’d be weird if they did–and possibly alarming!)
The only real way to judge a project’s health is by measuring it against itself over time, and knowing about the project’s long-term mission and goals.
What you’re seeing on the dashboard today isn’t the final word on how we measure our project’s success. We’ll be continuing to look for ways to gather, and share, information about our projects. Have ideas? We’d love to hear from you!
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Tiering feature is introduced in Gluster 3.7 release. Geo-replication may not perform well with Tiering feature yet. Races can happen since Rebalance moves files from one brick to another brick(hot to cold and cold to hot), but the Changelog/Journal remails in old brick itself. We know there will be problems since each Geo-replication worker(per brick) processes Changelogs belonging to respective brick and sync the data independently. Sync happens as two step operation, Create entry in Slave with the GFID recorded in Changelog, then use Rsync to sync data(using GFID access)
To uncover the bugs we need to setup workload and run multiple times since issues may not happen always. But it is tedious to run multiple times with actual data. How about simulating/mocking it?
Let us consider simple case of Rebalance, A file “f1” is created in Brick1 and after some time it becomes hot and Rebalance moved it to Brick2.
In Changelog we don’t capture the Rebalance Traffic, so in respective brick changelogs will contain,
# Brick1 Changelog CREATE 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef f1 DATA 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef # Brick2 Changelog DATA 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef
If Brick1 worker processes fast, then Entry is created in Slave and Data Operation succeeds. Since Both the workers can independently, sequence of execution may be like
# Possible Sequence 1 [Brick1] CREATE 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef f1 [Brick1] DATA 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef [Brick2] DATA 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef # Possible Sequence 2 [Brick2] DATA 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef [Brick1] CREATE 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef f1 [Brick1] DATA 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef # Possible Sequence 3 [Brick1] CREATE 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef f1 [Brick2] DATA 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef [Brick1] DATA 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef
We don’t have any problems with first and last sequence, But in second sequence Rsync will try to sync data before Entry Creation and Fails.
To solve this issue, we thought if we record CREATE from Rebalance traffic then it will solve this problem. So now brick Changelogs looks like,
# Brick1 Changelog CREATE 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef f1 DATA 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef # Brick2 Changelog CREATE 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef f1 DATA 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef
and possible sequences,
# Possible Sequence 1 [Brick1] CREATE 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef f1 [Brick1] DATA 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef [Brick2] CREATE 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef f1 [Brick2] DATA 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef # Possible Sequence 2 [Brick2] CREATE 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef f1 [Brick1] CREATE 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef f1 [Brick1] DATA 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef [Brick2] DATA 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef # and many more...
We do not have that problem, second CREATE will fail with EEXIST, we ignore it since it is safe error. But will this approach solves all the problems with Rebalance? When more FOPs added, it is very difficult to visualize or guess the problem.
To mock the concurrent workload, Collect sequence from each bricks Changelog and mix both the sequences. We should make sure that order in each brick remains same after the mix.
For example,
b1 = ["A", "B", "C", "D", "E"] b2 = ["F", "G"]
While mixing b2 in b1, for first element in b2 we can randomly choose a position in b1. Let us say random position we got is 2(Index is 2), and insert “F” in index 2 of b1
# before ["A", "B", "C", "D", "E"] # after ["A", "B", "F", "C", "D", "E"]
Now, to insert “G”, we should randomly choose anywhere after “F”. Once we get the sequence, mock the FOPs and compare with expected values.
I added a gist for testing following workload, it generates multiple sequences for testing.
# f1 created in Brick1, Rebalanced to Brick2 and then Unlinked # Brick1 Changelog CREATE 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef f1 DATA 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef # Brick2 Changelog CREATE 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef f1 DATA 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef UNLINK 0945daec-6f8c-438e-9bbf-b2ebf07543ef f1
Found two bugs.
I just started simulating with Tiering + Geo-replication workload, I may encounter more problems with Renames(Simple, multiple and cyclic). Will update the results soon.
I am sharing the script since it can be easily modified to work with different workloads and to test other projects/components.
Let me know if this is useful. Comments and Suggestions Welcome.
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