[Lustre-discuss] Lustre 1.6.3 - where are the bug fixes?

[Niklas Edmundsson]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Kilian CAVALOTTI wrote:

>> The 13614 patch is actually in 1.6.3 under the original bug number
>> where the patch came from (bug 13596).
>
> Good to know. It wasn't clear since 13596 is not public, and the
> discussion in 13614 didn't indicate any progress on 13596 resolution,
> neither gave any confirmation that both bugs were resolved by the same
> fix.

I agree. This is why I prefer that all bug numbers are mentioned in 
the changelog (be it a separate long-format changelog).

Actually, I'd prefer if the bugs themselves were public in the 
bugzilla once identified. The reason for having bugs private should be 
that the discussion/testcase/etc needs to be private, not that the 
actual bug itself is a secret, right?

>> As for 13438, I cannot explain why this didn't make it into the 1.6.3
>> release, since it was definitely ready in time.
>
> What about a 1.6.3.1 including 13438? ;)

What about a more general policy that pure bugfixes yields a new 
point-release? As Jim Garlick points out there are usually new 
features interspersed with the bugfixes, which has the potential of 
destabilizing the whole thing.

I'd prefer if point releases were produced until the thing was 
relatively stable (meaning that people can actually run it without 
applying their own batch of fixes), and then new features were 
included. Right now the only way of stabilizing lustre seems to be for 
each site to run into bugs, and dig in maillists/bugzilla to find the 
fixes.

So, get 1.6.3.1 out the door ASAP, and keep producing point-releases 
weekly until you've closed all "my server/client goes OOPS" bugs. I 
can almost guarantee that if CFS shows that it intends to fix these 
bugs swiftly people will deploy new point releases and report the bugs 
they find.


/Nikke
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