Gluster Community Newsletter, July 2016
Important happenings for Gluster this month:
First stable update for 3.8 is available, GlusterFS 3.8.1 fixes several bugs
Gluster Developers Summit:
October 6, 7, 2016 directly following LinuxCon Berlin
This is an invite-only event, but you can apply for an invitation.
Deadline for application is July 31, 2016.
Apply for an invitation:
http://goo.gl/forms/JOEzoimW9qVV4jdz1
Gluster-users:
Aravinda kicks off GlusterFS 3.9 Planning
Pranith gives more details about using Gluster as a distributed block store with Kubernetes
B.K.Raghuram follows up with the design behind a distributed iscsi implementation
Gandalf Corvotempesta’s longer discussion around RAID
Lindsay Mathieson follows up on 3.7.13 & proxmox/qemu
Dmitry Melekhov with questions around self-healing
Kaushal starts a conversation about 3.6 End of Life
Gluster-devel:
Jeff Darcy on Securing GlusterD management with a question around which version this feature should go into
Aravindra asks for assistance from maintainers for Gluster Events API – Help required to identify the list of Events from each component
Poornima Gurusiddaiah starts a conversation about regression test failures
http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-July/050137.html – Jonathan Holloway proposes a framework to leverage existing Python unit test standards for our testing
Niels de Vos has Suggestions for improving the block/gluster driver in QEMU
Gluster-infra:
Nigel provides Gluster Infra Updates – July
Michael Scherer starts a conversation around move of the ci.gluster.org server from one location to another location
Top 5 contributors:
Kotresh H R , Niels de Vos, Garrett LeSage, Atin Mukherjee, Aravinda VK
Upcoming CFPs:
FOSDEM: https://fosdem.org/2017/news/2016-07-20-call-for-participation/ – 4 & 5 February 2017
DevConf – http://www.devconf.cz/ – Jan 27-29