oVirt 3.2 release-management

Timeline

• General availability: 2013-02-14
  • Beta release: 2013-01-24
  • Feature freeze: 2013-01-14
  • Test Day: 2013-01-29

Tracker Bug

• Tracker - 881006

Release Criteria

Tracker bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=881006

General

• All sources must be available on ovirt.org

MUST

• MUST: No blockers on the lower level components - libvirt, lvm,device-mapper,qemu-kvm, Jboss, postgres, iscsi-initiator
• MUST: All image related operations work - copy, move, import, export, snapshot (vm and template)
• MUST: Ovirt/host installation should work flawlessly (w/o SSL)
• MUST: Fully operational flow (define DC hierarchy so you can run vm) with GUI/CLI/Python-API/REST-API
• MUST: vm life-cycle is working flawlessly (start,suspend,resume,stop,migrate)
• MUST: Upgrade from previous release
• MUST: ovirt-node full cycle (register, approve and running VM)
• MUST: No known data corruptors
• MUST: Can define NFS, iSCSI, FC and local based storage domains
• MUST: Can define VLAN based networks, bond interfaces, and have VLANs over bonded interfaces
• MUST: Can authenticate users against at least one external LDAP server
• MUST: Can run multiple VMs
• MUST: Can connect to VMs using SPICE
• MUST: Have Release Notes with feature specific information
• MUST: Have updated quick start guide available
• MUST: No regressions from 3.1 Release

SHOULD

• SHOULD: Can run full cycle with gluster storage
• SHOULD: have updated installation guide available

Features

Features being considered for inclusion/already in master:

• Primarily a bug fix release (list of bugs would be useful)
• Engine
  • UI plugins
  • Make network a main tab - stretch goal for 3.2
  • Import of existing gluster clusters
  • Bootstrap improvements
  • PKI improvments
  • SLA is a target for inclusion (MOM)
  • Improving Quota for 3.2
  • Integrate smartcard support
  • Display Address Override
  • VM creation base on pre-defined profiles (instance types)
  • libvdsm preview
  • Storage live migration on multiple disks
  • Sync network
  • nwfilter
  • webadmin: allow column resizing & sorting in grid (bz 767924)
  • port mirroring
  • user level api
  • automatic storage domain upgrade
  • Japanese localization
  • Unidirectional Gluster Geo-replication support
  • Support for asynchronous Gluster volume tasks
  • Gluster Volume Performance Statistics
  • Configuration sync with Gluster CLI
  • Monitoring Gluster Volumes and Bricks
  • Performance and Scalability
• Node
  • TUI redesign
  • Node automation work – refactor git repo to make standard python tools work
  • glusterfs client support
  • Full plugin support