Release 2.16.0

(Draft version - work in progress)

Current Schedule

 * 2023-02-28 - Feature Cut-off (Only features with patches already in review at this point still considered)
 * 2023-05-31 - Feature Freeze
 * 2023-07-31 - Code Freeze
 * 2023-08-31 - Release 2.16.0

Test Matrix

 * Servers: RHEL 9.2
 * Clients RHEL 9.2, SLES 15 SP4, Ubuntu 22.04
 * OFED: inkernel
 * E2fsprogs: v1.46.2.wc5
 * Interoperability: Latest 2.15.X Servers/Clients,

Features
The following features are under active development and could be possible for landing during the 2.16 release cycle

General Work and Maintenance
From the Lustre project page in the Lustre issue tracker, we can see a dashboard for the project. On that page under the "Versions: Unreleased" section, there are links to future releases and all of the issues that are either targeted to be addressed in that release, or are already addressed for the release. Here is a shortcut to Lustre 2.15.0's issue summary page:


 * Lustre 2.16.0 Issues

Any issue that contains "Lustre 2.16.0" in the "Fix Version/s" field of a ticket is intended to be fixed for version 2.16.0. The Lustre 2.16.0 Issues list is fluid, and will be updated on a continual basis as resources and priorities change.

If you would like to own one or more tasks for the release but are not currently listed in the drop-down list of developers in JIRA then please email [mailto:peter.a.jones@intel.com Peter Jones] to get that setup

A convenience search filter is supplied for anyone looking for work that needs to be done for 2.16.0:


 * Lustre 2.16.0 Unassigned Issues

In addition, a search filter is available for anyone looking to start Lustre development with some simple development tasks, or anyone with a few minutes/hours available to improve Lustre:


 * Lustre easy-to-fix issues
 * Lustre easy-to-fix Documentation issues