Gluster Monthly Newsletter, May 2017

Important happenings for Gluster for May:

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3.11 Release!

Our 3.11 release is officially out!

https://blog.gluster.org/2017/05/announcing-gluster-3-11/

Note that this is a short term supported release.

3.12 is underway with a feature freeze date of July 17, 2017.

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Gluster Summit 2017!

Gluster Summit 2017 will be held in Prague, Czech Republic on October 27 and 28th. We’ll be opening a call for papers for this instead of having an application process to attend.

https://www.gluster.org/events/summit2017  

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Our weekly community meeting has changed: we’ll be meeting every other week instead of weekly, moving the time to 15:00 UTC, and our agenda is at: https://bit.ly/gluster-community-meetings

We hope this means that more people can join us. Kaushal outlines the changes on the mailing list: http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2017-January/051918.html

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From Red Hat Summit:

Container-Native Storage for Modern Applications with OpenShift and Red Hat Gluster Storage

http://bit.ly/2qpLVP0

Gluster Top 5 Contributors in the last 30 days:

Architecting and Performance-Tuning Efficient Gluster Storage Pools

http://bit.ly/2qpMgkK

Noteworthy threads from the mailing lists:

Announcing GlusterFS release 3.11.0 (Short Term Maintenance) – Shyam –

http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2017-May/031298.html  

GlusterFS and Kafka – Christopher Schmidt –

http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2017-May/031185.html

gluster-block v0.2 is alive! – Prasanna Kalever – http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2017-May/030933.html

GlusterFS removal from Openstack Cinder – Joe Julian

http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2017-May/031223.html

Release 3.12 and 4.0: Thoughts on scope – Shyam  –

http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2017-May/052811.html

Reviews older than 90 days  – Amar Tumballi –

http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2017-May/052844.html  

[Proposal]: Changes to how we test and vote each patch  – Amar Tumballi –  

http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2017-May/052868.html

Volgen support for loading trace and io-stats translators at specific points in the graph – Krutika Dhananjay –

http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2017-May/052881.html  

Backport for “Add back socket for polling of events immediately…” – Shyam

http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2017-May/052887.html  

[Proposal]: New branch (earlier: Changes to how we test and vote each patch) –  Amar Tumballi –   

http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2017-May/052933.html  

Gluster Top 5 Contributors in the last 30 days:

Krutika Dhananjay, Michael Scherer, Kaleb S. Keithley, Nigel Babu, Xavier Hernandez

Upcoming CFPs:

Open Source Summit Europe –

http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/open-source-summit-europe/program/cfp

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