Gluster Monthly Newsletter, July 2017
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The Gluster Summit CfP has been extended to midnight Pacific time, August 15th.
Want to get your talk in but wasn’t sure what to say? Drop something in before August 15th anyways!
https://www.gluster.org/events/summit2017
Welcome new maintainers!
https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/master/MAINTAINERS now reflects our modified maintainer structure, and the maintainers meeting happens every other week at the same time as the community meeting.
http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2017-July/053362.html has more details.
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
Release 3.12 has been branched! This Long Term Release will be available in August.
http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2017-July/053367.html
Noteworthy threads:
[Gluster-users] GlusterFS 3.8.14 is here, 3.8 even closer to End-Of-Life http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2017-July/031826.html
[Gluster-users] Web python framework under GlusterFS
http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2017-July/031888.html
[Gluster-devel] [New Release] GlusterD2 v4.0dev-7
http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2017-July/053229.html
[Gluster-devel] create restrictions xlator
http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2017-July/053288.html
[Gluster-devel] What would be ideal option for ‘auth.allow’ to support subdir mount?
http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2017-July/053355.html
[Gluster-devel] Changing the relative order of read-ahead and open-behind
http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2017-July/053363.html
Gluster Top 5 Contributors in the last 30 days:
Michael Scherer, Kaleb Keithley, Sachidananda URS, Niels De Vos, Nithya Balachandran
Upcoming CFPs:
LinuxConf AU
https://linux.conf.au/proposals/ – August 6th
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