Hello, everyone and welcome to the giddily 14.3 release planning for git lab release 14.3. uh This is the planning for the september. 22Nd 2021 release uh very excited this release to discuss our engineering allocation um in the short term, the giveaway team is utilizing a full on 100, gitlab engineering allocation, and what this does is this devotes the team entirely toward resolving a critical issue for a short period of time, and we do this periodically around different issues as they arise, to ensure that we're focusing our efforts where they are most impactful to the organization.

uh The current justification for this 100 allocation is to improve the synchronization performance between gilly cluster and the prefect database and remove the potential for out-of-sync conditions. This is impacting some of our customers and it's something we want to ensure we tackle immediately and resolve in the best way possible.

As such, I've allocated a couple issues here that go toward this engineering allocation. The first one is a situation that can cause the private database and the repository storage on disk end up in a split brain situation.

uh We are currently looking at ways to resolve this and ways to mitigate this as well as potentially allowing the user to execute commands to manually synchronize. If the need arises, we're also looking at um inputting a crawler that will crawl the disks of the gilly nodes and clean up after leftover repositories.

There are certain instances where a repository could be deleted from the database intentionally and yet still remain on disk, and this allows us to go ahead and clean up after ourselves ensure that we're not keeping still data present on disk, uh freeing up disk space and eliminating any sort of confusion.

I do want to mention that engineering allocations do not supersede infrastructure issues or critical bug fixes, so, as those arise, we will be prioritizing those appropriately.

uh If there are any questions, please feel free to comment on any of these issues or contact me directly. I appreciate you taking the time to watch this if there's anything uh perfect or gilly or gilly cluster related. I would love to reach out and have a conversation about that. Thank you. So much.