Gluster Monthly Newsletter, March 2019

Congratulations to the team for getting Gluster 6 released!

https://www.gluster.org/announcing-gluster-6/

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-March/036144.html

Our retrospective survey is open through April 8th, give us feedback on what we should start, stop or continue!

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-March/036144.html

Gluster 7 Roadmap

Discussion kicked off for our 7 roadmap on the mailing lists, see [Gluster-users] GlusterFS v7.0 (and v8.0) roadmap discussion https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-March/036139.html for more details.

Gluster Friday Five:
See all of our Friday Five casts at https://www.youtube.com/user/GlusterCommunity.

Contributors

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

Top Contributors in February: Yaniv Kaul, Pranith Kumar Karampuri, Aravinda VK, Ravishankar N

Noteworthy Threads:

[Gluster-users] Gluster : Improvements on “heal info” command

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-March/035955.html

[Gluster-users] Announcing Gluster release 5.5

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-March/036098.html

[Gluster-users] GlusterFS v7.0 (and v8.0) roadmap discussion

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-March/036139.html

[Gluster-users] Proposal: Changes in Gluster Community meetings

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-March/036140.html

[Gluster-users] Help: gluster-block

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-March/036147.html

[Gluster-users] POSIX locks and disconnections between clients and bricks

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-March/036161.html

[Gluster-users] [Gluster-infra] Gluster HA

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-March/036200.html

[Gluster-users] [Event CfP Announce] DevConf events India and US in the month of August 2019

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-March/036211.html

[Gluster-users] Upgrade testing to gluster 6

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-March/036214.html

[Gluster-users] Quick update on glusterd’s volume scalability improvements

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-March/036219.html

[Gluster-devel] [Gluster-infra] 8/10 AWS jenkins builders disconnected

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-March/055906.html

[Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] Experiences with FUSE in real world – Presentationat Vault 2019

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-March/055944.html

[Gluster-devel] [Gluster-infra] Upgrading build.gluster.org

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-March/055912.html

[Gluster-devel] Github#268 Compatibility with Alpine Linux

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-March/055921.html

[Gluster-devel] GF_CALLOC to GF_MALLOC conversion – is it safe?

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-March/055969.html

[Gluster-devel] Issue with posix locks

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-March/056027.html

Events:

• Red Hat Summit, May 4-6, 2019 – https://www.redhat.com/en/summit/2019
• Open Source Summit and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Shanghai, June 24-26, 2019 https://www.lfasiallc.com/events/kubecon-cloudnativecon-china-2019/
• DevConf India, August 2- 3 2019, Bengaluru  – https://devconf.info/in
• DevConf USA, August 15-17, 2019, Boston –   https://devconf.info/us/