[Gluster-devel] RFC: Gluster bundles for 3.5

[John Mark Walker]

Greetings,

As you may or may not be aware, there are quite a few maturing projects that 
may warrant inclusion in a GlusterFS 3.5 bundle:

- gluster-swift
- gluster-hdfs/gluster-hadoop
- oVirt 3.4 (for RESTful API and management GUI)
- pmux - for distributed MapReduce jobs
- gflocator - implements some measure of data locality, used in pmux
- glubix - for monitoring with zabbix
- puppet-gluster - puppet module for deploying GlusterFS

I mention these in particular because there are actual, real-life users for 
each of them. If there are other projects out there that you feel have been 
overlooked, please nominate them.


How do we distribute this software? I've long thought that the easiest way to 
release them is as packages that we make available for download with each major 
release. We could call the major releases "Gluster Software Distribution" or 
"Gluster++" or some other witty name that makes it clear that it's more than 
just GlusterFS. 


Please comment on both the projects I've listed above, as well as how we should 
go about making this part of a release.

-JM