On 05/02/2025 15:40, Janne Johansson wrote:

We in the Ceph Steering Committee are discussing when we want to
target the Tentacle release for, as we find ourselves in an unusual
scheduling situation:
* Historically, we have targeted our major release in early Spring. I
believe this was initially aligned to the Ubuntu LTS release. (With
cephadm and containerization I'm not sure this is particularly
relevant any more?)

Please do not assume everyone runs ceph in containers so the OS
doesn't matter, we and others run ceph using the supplied rpms and
debs.

Absolutely agree with Janne about containers. We use the Centos 9 Stream RPMs and have no plans whatever to move to cephadm containers/orchestration. (Many reasons, but that's a different discussion).

What matters to us is:

properly tested packaging for the supported distributions, especially the Category A ones (this is becoming more problematic, especially in the python area)
properly tested functionality
prompt fixing of serious bugs, especially in the latest production version (we haven't even been able to move to squid yet because of the balancer pg-iteration bug). I'd love to see all Ceph systems being able to move easily to the supported releases (n, n-1) so that so much time isn't wasted on problems with obsolete releases.

Some of the new things in tentacle sound great, but we need to concentrate on the current basics first. Timescales for the new features are a much more minor consideration for us.

Ceph is a fantastic product. Let's keep it that way.

Chris