We're currently scheduled to put out posts at Wednesday 1am Eastern time, which is why I was asking. Want to put out a call for additional packaging help on the -devel list a little later? - amye
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 8:32 AM, Niels de Vos <nde...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 07:48:15AM -0700, Amye Scavarda wrote: > > Can we be assured that we'll have things settled in the SIG by tomorrow > so > > that this can be consumed? > > The following steps need to happen before the packages are easily > consumable: > > 1. packages need to be signed and pushed to the mirrors > This is expected to happen tomorrow morning UK time. > > 2. centos-release-gluster40 needs to be included in CentOS Extras > There is only a .el7 package for testing now, I'll do a .el6 package > today too. These packages need to be signed+pushed to the mirrors, > which we can request after (1) in the US afternoon. > > 3. (2) expects announcment emails to a CentOS list, in a particular > format (see link in email below). I normally send out those emails > and have the CentOS team review/approve them. > > As soon as (2) is done, users should be able to consume the packages as > usual. At that time the email to annou...@gluster.org can be sent out. > The announcement on the CentOS list (3) might be a little delayed as > that depends on the availability of the CentOS team. > > > This is the biggest complaint we've gotten out of our last releases, not > > being able to consume this. > > This time round, we already placed some packages in the gluster-4.0 > repositories. That made it possible to do some initial syncing to the > mirrors, so we're less dependent on yet an other task that we need to > request from the CentOS folks. The repositories have existed for a while > without anyone asking/noticing about them, so this seems a workable > optimization for next releases. > > Obviously doing the releases in the CentOS Storage SIG need someone to > initiate and work through them. Currently Kaleb and I do all of these, > and we welcome anyone who is serious about assisting with this! > > Any further questions? > > Niels > > > > - amye > > > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 7:02 AM, Shyam Ranganathan <srang...@redhat.com> > > wrote: > > > > > On 03/13/2018 09:39 AM, Niels de Vos wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 02:07:58PM -0700, Amye Scavarda wrote: > > > >> Cool! > > > >> We're ready to roll on this, here's our draft of the announcement: > > > >> https://hackmd.io/meFTm1KtRkWTvR2nWUchvw?view > > > >> > > > >> Anything else you need from Shyam and I? > > > >> We're targeting an announcement on Wednesday to make sure this can > get > > > >> through the CentOS SIG. > > > > > > > > Announcements to the CentOS announce list are expected to have a > certain > > > > format. Last time I sent out this: > > > > https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/ > > > 2017-December/022692.html > > > > > > > > The 4.0 announcement will need to mention similar points, and then it > > > > > > I did not understand the above, the 4.0 announcement is as in the > Hackmd > > > page above, are you suggesting we follow a CentOS (storage SIG) > announce > > > model? or, that we need to announce to gluster.org first and then you > > > would follow it up with an announce to the CentOS SIG? > > > > > > > can have a link to the announcement that is available on gluster.org > > > > somewhere. > > > > > > > > Thanks! > -- Amye Scavarda | a...@redhat.com | Gluster Community Lead
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