[Twg] [wc-discuss] Lustre 1.8.7-wc1 released

[Peter Jones]

Hi Nathan

I agree that the proliferation of mailing lists is inefficient and I 
personally would love it if Oracle handed lustre.org over to OpenSFS. It 
rankles that the first hit anyone gets when they google "Lustre" is full 
of stale information ("LUG 2010 coming soon") and dead links (anyone 
clicking on anything download related is led on a wild goose chase) - 
hardly an fair reflection of a vibrant and active development community!

However, at this time, lustre.org is still owned and hosted by Oracle 
and it unclear what the long term plans for it are and no guarantees 
that it will not suddenly wink out of existence (just as the ability to 
download Lustre releases from Oracle did over the summer). As such, I 
think that independent mailing lists are a sensible "safety net". 
OpenSFS and Whamcloud are distinct organizations and so naturally need 
their own mailing lists.

Furthermore, Oracle is still producing its own Lustre 1.8.x releases and 
so we feel that promoting Whamcloud's 1.8.x releases on an Oracle-hosted 
mailing list would be inappropriate. If someone wants to forward these 
announcements to the lustre.org mailing list that is fine with us :-)

I'll be happy to discuss this in more detail with you at SC11 if you like.

Regards

Peter

On 11-11-04 12:13 PM, Nathan Rutman wrote:
> Hi Peter - thanks.
> Should these types of announcements also go out to 
> lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org 
> <mailto:lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org> and discuss at lists.opensfs.org 
> <mailto:discuss at lists.opensfs.org>?
> I hate the fact that there are now 3 lists where there used to be one 
> -- the fact of the matter is that all 3 lists are open, so it's really 
> not about control. Can we possibly just redirect all messages from two 
> of the lists to the 3rd?  My vote would be for lustre.org 
> <http://lustre.org> since that's the traditional location.
>
>
> On Nov 4, 2011, at 5:56 AM, Peter Jones wrote:
>
>> Hi there
>>
>> I am pleased to announce that Lustre 1.8.7-wc1 has been declared GA 
>> and is available for download at 
>> http://downloads.whamcloud.com/public/lustre/lustre-1.8.7/.
>>
>> Release Highlights
>> -ext4 features enabled by default (LU419)
>> -Several interop issues with 2.1 addressed (LU541/565/594)
>> -Group quotas are now enforced (LU530)
>> -Potential deadlock in mds_open addressed (LU146)
>>
>> Changelog details available at 
>> *http://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Changelog+1.8*
>>
>> Please log any issues found at http://bugs.whamcloud.com
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Peter
>> -- 
>> Peter Jones
>> Whamcloud, Inc.
>> www.whamcloud.com
>

-- 
Peter Jones
Whamcloud, Inc.
www.whamcloud.com

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