<div dir="ltr">Hello, all.<div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Well, I've checked the trello board, and there is a fair amount of things there.</div>
<div><br></div><div>There are a couple of things that are not there as well.</div><div><br></div><div>I think it would be nice to listen to the COMMUNITY (yes, that means YOU), for either suggestions, or at least a vote.</div>
<div><br></div><div>My opinion, being also my vote, in order of PERSONAL preference:</div><div><br></div><div>1) There is a project going on, that consists on re-writing the stripe module on gluster. This is specially importnt because it has </div>
<div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Kaushal M <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kshlmster@gmail.com" target="_blank">kshlmster@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It could be a new feature request. It should be solid enough for a<br>
developer to get behind it and offer to mentor the project (GSOC<br>
requires this). Have a look at the trello board I linked in the first<br>
mail. If you have an idea not already there, propose it on the mailing<br>
list and start a discussion in the community.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
~kaushal<br>
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Carlos Capriotti<br>
<<a href="mailto:capriotti.carlos@gmail.com">capriotti.carlos@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> These projects, do they have to be on-going ideas/features, or could them be<br>
> a (solid) feature request ?<br>
><br>
> (Yes, the question is very basic, but I am new here. Sorry.)<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:15 PM, John Mark Walker <<a href="mailto:johnmark@gluster.org">johnmark@gluster.org</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I agree. At one time, Vipul (sp?) approached the list with the desire to<br>
>> do something, and I would support adding that under the fedora project<br>
>> umbrella, assuming that we have a mentor in place for his project - I've<br>
>> forgotten what it was, although I can dig it up in the gluster-user<br>
>> archives.<br>
>><br>
>> I'd be interested in hearing about other projects that should be added.<br>
>><br>
>> -JM<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> ----- Original Message -----<br>
>> > On 03/12/2014 06:44 PM, Kaushal M wrote:<br>
>> > > We haven't had any noise regarding GSOC this year in the Gluster<br>
>> > > community and haven't done anything regarding it so far (AFAIK).<br>
>> > ><br>
>> > > The student registration for GSOC-2014 is closing on 21st March [1],<br>
>> > > so we still have a little over 1 week to do something.<br>
>> > ><br>
>> > > Ideally, with Gluster progressing from a project to an organization<br>
>> > > with multiple projects, we'd have liked to participate as our own<br>
>> > > organization this time, but it isn't possible. We can still<br>
>> > > participate as a project under the Fedora umbrella, as we've done<br>
>> > > previously.<br>
>> > ><br>
>> > > There are already two entries for GlusterFS in the Fedora ideas page<br>
>> > > for GSOC-2014 [2]. These have been copied over from the previous year.<br>
>> > > As these were skipped over last year, I feel that these ideas weren't<br>
>> > > particularly attractive to the students.<br>
>> > ><br>
>> > > This mail is a call to the community for new ideas (could be something<br>
>> > > from the trello backlog board [3]) and for mentors for these ideas,<br>
>> > > and after we have these done a publicity drive.<br>
>> > ><br>
>> > > Let's try to whatever is possible now to get on the GSOC train this<br>
>> > > year.<br>
>> > ><br>
>> > > ~kaushal<br>
>> > ><br>
>> > > [1] - <a href="https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014" target="_blank">https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014</a><br>
>> > > [2] -<br>
>> > ><br>
>> > > <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2014#Applications_for_programmers" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2014#Applications_for_programmers</a><br>
>> > > [3] - <a href="https://trello.com/b/mczS4DKw/glusterfs-backlog" target="_blank">https://trello.com/b/mczS4DKw/glusterfs-backlog</a><br>
>> > ><br>
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>> > +1. Also it is a nice/right way to increase mind share among students.<br>
>> > Can we also discuss this in today's community meeting?<br>
>> ><br>
>> > -Lala<br>
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