Gluster Monthly Newsletter, September 2018

Gluster 5.0 is just around the corner!

We’re in testing for 5.0rc0, https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/maintainers/2018-September/005073.html has more details for testing with CentOS.

Community Meeting – October  15:00 UTC in #gluster-meeting on freenode. https://bit.ly/gluster-community-meetings has the agenda.

We’re participating in Outreachy this cycle!

https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/gluster/

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 September:

Sanju Rakonde, Amar Tumballi, Sunny Kumar, Ashish Pandey, Kotresh Hiramath Ravishankar, Nithya Balacha

Noteworthy threads:

[gluster-users]

Gluster.org Blog – Call for Posts: Sept 11-30  

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2018-September/034828.html

Heketi v8.0.0 available for download https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2018-September/034851.html

glusterd2 4.1 packages now available for Debian stretch and buster, and Ubuntu bionic and cosmic https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2018-September/034880.html

Mountpoint attendee survey

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2018-September/034906.html

Announcing Gluster release 4.1.5 (Long Term Maintenance)   

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2018-September/034976.html

Introducing cockpit-gluster! Status view and volume action web-GUI for gd2

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2018-September/034979.html

[gluster-devel]

Proposal to change Gerrit -> Bugzilla updates

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2018-September/055370.html

Clang-Formatter for GlusterFS https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2018-September/055382.html

Cloudsync with AFR  

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2018-September/055396.html

On making performance.parallel-readdir as a default option   

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2018-September/055419.html

Python3 build process

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2018-September/055446.html

gluster-ansible: status of the project   

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2018-September/055461.html

Gluster Weekly Report : Static Analyser  

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2018-September/055462.html

Status update on “Hyperconverged Gluster oVirt support”

https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2018-September/055470.html

Events:

• Open Source Summit Europe, Oct 22-24 in Edinburgh, UK
• KubeCon North America 2018, Dec 11-13, in Seattle, US

Open CFPs:

• DevConf.CZ – January 25-27 in Brno, Czechia – https://devconf.info/cz
• FOSDEM, Feb 2-3 2019 in Brussels, Belgium – https://fosdem.org/2019/
• Red Hat Summit,  May 7-9, 2019 in Boston – https://www.redhat.com/zh/summit/2019