Re: [Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] GSOC-2014 and the Gluster community

[Carlos Capriotti]

Hello, all.

I am a little bit impressed by the lack of action on this topic. I hate to be "that guy", specially being new here, but it has to be done. 

If I've got this right, we have here a chance of developing Gluster even further, sponsored by Google, with a dedicated programmer for the summer. 

In other words, if we play our cards right, we can get a free programmer and at least a good start/advance on this fantastic.

Well, I've checked the trello board, and there is a fair amount of things there.

There are a couple of things that are not there as well.

I think it would be nice to listen to the COMMUNITY (yes, that means YOU), for either suggestions, or at least a vote.

My opinion, being also my vote, in order of PERSONAL preference:

1) There is a project going on, that consists on re-writing the stripe module on gluster. This is specially importnt because it has 

2) We have a recurring issue with split-brain solution. There is an entry on trello asking/suggesting a mechanism that arbitrates this resolution automatically. I pretty much think this could come together with another solution that is file replication consistency check. 

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Kaushal M <address@hidden> wrote:

It could be a new feature request. It should be solid enough for a
developer to get behind it and offer to mentor the project (GSOC
requires this). Have a look at the trello board I linked in the first
mail. If you have an idea not already there, propose it on the mailing
list and start a discussion in the community.

~kaushal

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Carlos Capriotti
<address@hidden> wrote:
> These projects, do they have to be on-going ideas/features, or could them be
> a (solid) feature request ?
>
> (Yes, the question is very basic, but I am new here. Sorry.)
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:15 PM, John Mark Walker <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>>
>> I agree. At one time, Vipul (sp?) approached the list with the desire to
>> do something, and I would support adding that under the fedora project
>> umbrella, assuming that we have a mentor in place for his project - I've
>> forgotten what it was, although I can dig it up in the gluster-user
>> archives.
>>
>> I'd be interested in hearing about other projects that should be added.
>>
>> -JM
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > On 03/12/2014 06:44 PM, Kaushal M wrote:
>> > > We haven't had any noise regarding GSOC this year in the Gluster
>> > > community and haven't done anything regarding it so far (AFAIK).
>> > >
>> > > The student registration for GSOC-2014 is closing on 21st March [1],
>> > > so we still have a little over 1 week to do something.
>> > >
>> > > Ideally, with Gluster progressing from a project to an organization
>> > > with multiple projects, we'd have liked to participate as our own
>> > > organization this time, but it isn't possible. We can still
>> > > participate as a project under the Fedora umbrella, as we've done
>> > > previously.
>> > >
>> > > There are already two entries for GlusterFS in the Fedora ideas page
>> > > for GSOC-2014 [2]. These have been copied over from the previous year.
>> > > As these were skipped over last year, I feel that these ideas weren't
>> > > particularly attractive to the students.
>> > >
>> > > This mail is a call to the community for new ideas (could be something
>> > > from the trello backlog board [3]) and for mentors for these ideas,
>> > > and after we have these done a publicity drive.
>> > >
>> > > Let's try to whatever is possible now to get on the GSOC train this
>> > > year.
>> > >
>> > > ~kaushal
>> > >
>> > > [1] - https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014
>> > > [2] -
>> > >
>> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2014#Applications_for_programmers
>> > > [3] - https://trello.com/b/mczS4DKw/glusterfs-backlog
>> > >
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>> > +1. Also it is a nice/right way to increase mind share among students.
>> > Can we also discuss this in today's community meeting?
>> >
>> > -Lala
>> >
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