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Gluster Monthly Newsletter, December 2018

Amye Scavarda
2019-01-07

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 2019. More details on the mailing lists at https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2018-November/055672.html

Want swag for your meetup? https://www.gluster.org/events/ has a contact form for us to let us know about your Gluster meetup! We’d love to hear about Gluster presentations coming up, conference talks and gatherings. Let us know!

Contributors

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

Top Contributors in December: Sunny Kumar, Amar Tumballi, Sheetal Pamecha, Harpreet Kaur Lalwani, Sanju Rakonde

Noteworthy Threads:

[Gluster-users] Update from GlusterFS project (November -2018)

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2018-December/035446.html

[Gluster-users] Glusterd2 project updates (github.com/gluster/glusterd2)

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2018-December/035448.html

[Gluster-users] GCS 0.4 release

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2018-December/035457.html

[Gluster-users] Announcing Gluster release 5.2   

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2018-December/035461.html

[Gluster-users] Gluster meetup: India  

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2018-December/035476.html

[Gluster-users] Update on GCS 0.5 release   

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2018-December/035505.html

[Gluster-devel] Gluster Weekly Report : Static Analyser https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2018-December/055711.html

[Gluster-devel] FOSDEM stand – February 2 & 3, 2019  https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2018-December/055715.html

[Gluster-devel] Infra Update for Nov and Dec  https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2018-December/055735.html

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

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2018-December/055741.html

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

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2018-December/055742.html

[Gluster-devel] include-what-you-use run on Gluster  

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2018-December/055750.html

[Gluster-devel] [DHT] serialized readdir(p) across subvols and effect on performance   

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2018-December/055762.html

Events:

FOSDEM, Feb 2-3 2019 in Brussels, Belgium – https://fosdem.org/2019/

Vault: February 25–26, 2019 – https://www.usenix.org/conference/vault19/

Open CFPs:
KubeCon EU – Barcelona: May 19-21 – CFP closes Jan 19!
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2019/
CFP: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2019/cfp/


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