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Backport Guidelines

In GlusterFS project, as a policy, any new change, bug fix, etc., are to be fixed in 'devel' branch before release branches. When a bug is fixed in the devel branch, it might be desirable or necessary in release branch.

This page describes the policy GlusterFS has regarding the backports. As a user, or contributor, being aware of this policy would help you to understand how to request for backport from community.

Policy

  • No feature from devel would be backported to the release branch
  • CVE ie., security vulnerability (listed on the CVE database) reported in the existing releases would be backported, after getting fixed in devel branch.
  • Only topics which bring about data loss or, unavailability would be backported to the release.
  • For any other issues, the project recommends that the installation be upgraded to a newer release where the specific bug has been addressed.
  • Gluster provides 'rolling' upgrade support, i.e., one can upgrade their server version without stopping the application I/O, so we recommend migrating to higher version.

Things to pay attention to while backporting a patch.

If your patch meets the criteria above, or you are a user, who prefer to have a fix backported, because your current setup is facing issues, below are the steps you need to take care to submit a patch on release branch.

  • The patch should have same 'Change-Id'.

How to contact release owners?

All release owners are part of 'gluster-devel@gluster.org' mailing list. Please write your expectation from next release there, so we can take that to consideration while making the release.