<div dir="ltr">Hi Folks,<div><br></div><div>We had a successful IRC meeting yesterday. Thanks to everyone who made it. For those who didn't have time to join, here is a brief summary:</div><div><br></div><div style>1. everyone's work sync and tech discussion:</div>
<div style>* QEMU auto-reconnection: If sheep daemon exits unexpectedly or need upgraded, all vms need to be closed because QEMU sheepdog driver doesn't support reconnecting to sheep daemon. If we have this feature in the QEMU driver, the upgrade process can be more smooth. No one is working on this currently. If you can help, it is more than welcome.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>* zookeeper driver improvement: handle session timeout correctly and make the driver more robust. Kai is working on this. </div><div style><br></div><div style>* libsheepdog: Create a library for accessing sheep objects. It will also be a foundation for different language bindings, e.g. python, ruby, golang, etc. Kai will work on this. Joseph also expressed the interests on the maillist.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>* S3-like Service: It is already on the roadmap. Both Yuan and Kai, and probably lots of others, expressed interests on this.</div><div style><br></div><div style>* sheepdog profiling: sheepdog profiling will help us understand the internal execution of sheepdog for performance/feature improvement/debugging. This may be relied on current trace framework. This is also put on Kai's working list.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>* benchamark for performance test: Kazutatka is working on it.</div><div style><br></div><div style>* recovery I/O control and different I/O channel priority: This is try to reduce the impact recovery I/O made to the VM I/O traffice. Kazutaka will work on this after Kai finishes sheepdog profiling.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>2. Sheepdog Manual:</div><div style>Valerio is working on the sheepdog manual. It should be soon available for public review.</div><div style><br></div><div style>3. sheepdog-project website:</div>
<div style>We will have a new sheepdog website <a href="http://www.sheepdog-project.org">www.sheepdog-project.org</a>. Alessandro is working on it. There are several logo design available on <a href="http://www.sheepdog-project.org">www.sheepdog-project.org</a>. If you like one of them, please vote one you like. If you are a designer and have better idea, please send your design to us as well. ;) We need designers!</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>4. Regular IRC meeting</div><div style>Every two weeks on Friday UTC 8:00am. </div><div style>You can also subscribe this calender for future sheepdog events:</div><div style><a href="https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=02fvs8fd3h4nbnld060o3g1ruk@group.calendar.google.com">https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=02fvs8fd3h4nbnld060o3g1ruk@group.calendar.google.com</a><br>
</div><div style><br></div><div style>Or if there are a strong need for a IRC meeting in other time, we can also schedule an IRC meeting on demand.</div><div style><br></div><div style><br></div><div style>Hope this will help you catch up. Please reply this email if I forgot to mention anything. Thanks.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Have a nice weekend!</div><div style><br></div><div style>Regards,</div><div style>Wenhao</div></div>