[Ganglia-developers] Lets push 3.1.0 out the door (was:Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Ganglia3.1.0 tarball ready for testing...)

[Brad N. <BNI...@no...>]

Bernard,
     I think we can go ahead and release the 3.1.0 tarball as the official 3.1.0 Ganglia release.  We should be able to use the text from this announcement to write up an official announcement of the release.  What do you think?  If you want to work on the announcement together, we can do it over #ganglia IRC or the mailing list.

Brad


  >>> On 7/29/2008 at 9:33 AM, in message <488...@no...>, "Brad
Nicholes" <BNI...@no...> wrote:
> It has been two weeks since the announcement of the availability of the 
> Ganglia 3.1.0 testing tarball.  Since that time, I haven't seen any reports 
> of showstopper issues.  Unless there are any objections or critical bug 
> reports that have not yet been reported, I propose that we release the 3.1.0 
> tarball as first official release of the Ganglia 3.1.x series.  
> 
> Comments? Votes?
> 
> 
> Brad
> 
>>>> On 7/15/2008 at 1:57 PM, in message <487...@no...>, "Brad
> Nicholes" <BNI...@no...> wrote:
>> The Ganglia Project is pleased to announce the first official testing 
> release 
>> of Ganglia 3.1.x.  The testing tarball is available for immediate download 
>> at:
>> 
>> http://www.ganglia.info/testing/ 
>> 
>> The intent of this first testing release of Ganglia 3.1.x is to validate 
>> that the source code is stable and that the new feature set that is included 
> 
>> in the 3.1 version of the software, is ready for general release.  The 
>> release procedure from this point has been documented on the Ganglia wiki 
>> site at http://ganglia.wiki.sourceforge.net/ganglia_works under the heading 
>> "Generating a Release Candidate and GA Release".  
>> 
>> Basically the Ganglia 3.1.0 testing tarball has been rolled and made 
>> available for testing by the Ganglia community.  All bugs found in this 
>> testing release should be immediately reported through bugzilla 
>> (http://bugzilla.ganglia.info) and can be posted to the 
>> gan...@li... mailing list as well.  If the bug 
>> report is also accompanied by a bug fix patch, this will help avoid delays 
> in 
>> producing new testing tarballs and ultimately an official general release of 
> 
>> the software.  If any critical level bugs are discovered, the current 
> testing 
>> release tarball will be thrown away and a new tarball will be rolled and 
> made 
>> available for further testing.  Once a testing release tarball has been 
>> validated by the Ganglia community to be stable and ready for general 
>> availability, that tarball will become the official Ganglia 3.1.x release.  
>> So basically the sooner we are able to test and validate the Ganglia 3.1 
>> source code, the sooner the project will be able to 
>>  create an official release.  But we need your help to get this done.  Any 
>> and all testing and feedback, positive or negative, will be greatly 
>> appreciated.
>> 
>> There are several known issues with the current release which include the 
>> following:
>> 
>> * no support for C++ to create DSO modules
>> * no spoofing from modular metrics (use gmetric if spoofing is needed)
>> * race condition for tcpconn python metric module (affects gmond -m)
>> * libdir issues related to building for 64bit platforms
>> * known build issues for platforms:
>>    - Darwin (AKA MacOS/X)
>>    - HPUX
>>    - Tru64 (AKA OSF/1)
>>    - Irix
>> 
>> Many of the above issues are being addressed and patches will be applied for 
> 
>> the next minor release of Ganglia 3.1.x.  In addition more information about 
> 
>> the current testing release or official release, can be found on the Ganglia 
> 
>> wiki at http://ganglia.wiki.sourceforge.net/ganglia_release_notes.
>> 
>> For those who are interested in upgrading from a current 3.0.x installation, 
> 
>> your current gmond and gmetad configuration files will need to be moved from 
> 
>> there current location to /etc/ganglia.  If you are attempting the upgrade 
>> via an RPM, the RPM will automatically move your current configuration file 
>> to the new location. However, for gmond, the 3.0.x conf file will not work. 
>> Please use the patch file gmond-3.1.patch (available from the testing URL 
>> above) to patch your gmond.conf prior to starting, otherwise gmond will fail 
> 
>> to startup.
>> 
>> The main features of this release are :
>> 
>>   * Dynamically loaded metric module support (DSO)
>>   * Scriptable metric module support with Python
>>   * Modular frontend graph support
>>   * Platform support for DragonFlyBSD
>>   * Improved native metric support for Windows (Built with CygWin)
>>   * Bug fixes and Enhancements
>> 
>> Supported platforms (additional testing requested):
>> 
>>   * Linux (Fedora/RedHat/CentOS, Debian, Gentoo, SuSE/OpenSuSE)
>>   * [Open]Solaris
>>   * FreeBSD
>>   * NetBSD
>>   * OpenBSD
>>   * DragonflyBSD
>>   * Cygwin (no support for DSO yet)
>>   * AIX (no support for DSO yet)
>> 
>> Please read all the README, INSTALL and other available documentation 
>> (http://ganglia.wiki.sourceforge.net) as a lot of things have changed since 
>> 3.0.7. Use good deployment practices when upgrading from 3.0.x to make sure 
>> that you do not mix gmond 3.0 and 3.1 nodes in the same cluster (as defined 
>> by a multicast address or unicast collector node).  The protocol that allows 
> 
>> gmond nodes to communicate within the same cluster, has changed.  However 
> the 
>> XML packets that are passed between gmond and gmetad have remained 
> compatible 
>> from 3.0.x to 3.1.x, allowing a 3.0.x gmetad to continue to pull data from a 
> 
>> newer 3.1.x gmond cluster.
>> 
>> happy testing
>> 
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