On Dec 27, 2012, at 3:12 PM, Pranav Saxena wrote: > Thanks Sebastien for the update ! The plan looks great . > > The marketplace plugin we were developing for Cloudstack is in our feature > branch - asf/marketplace-prototype and we have the basic prototype working > for which the details about its structure are there on Jie's marketplace > proposal page .
Was the page updated to take into account all the discussions that happened on the ML ? Also what is in this feature branch ? I believe it was created before we had all the discussions. Does it contain the core marketplace code and the repo listings components ? It should only contain the "client"/plugin side. > We need to improve upon its design and customized looks. Please let us know > if we could help you out in whatsoever ways possible. > > Merry Christmas and a very happy new year to you ! > > Regards, > Pranav > > > -----Original Message----- > From: sebgoa [mailto:run...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 7:15 PM > To: Pranav Saxena > Cc: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Opennebula marketplace integration > > Hi Pranav, > > Due to the holiday season I expect a light volume of updates. > > That said I believe that a consensus has been reached. The marketplace core > code and the repositories should be placed somewhere outside of the Apache > repository. > > The marketplace "client" could be submitted to the Apache repo with the > concept of a marketplace plugin. > > I informed the Opennebula guys of this development and pointed them to Jie's > wiki page and the threads discussing Marketplace. I hope to get them engaged > in actual testing and development after the new year. > > I hope that before feature freeze of 4.1 we can have a marketplace "plugin" > with demonstrated use of "Jie's" marketplace as well as the opennebula > marketplace. This would make for a very nice story and would be a nice > ecosystem. > > Cheers, > > -Sebastien > > > On Dec 26, 2012, at 11:53 AM, Pranav Saxena wrote: > >> Hi Sebastien/Jie , >> >> Any update on where are we currently on building up a marketplace for >> cloudstack ? Community consensus ? >> >> @ Sebastien - As you suggested , is there any update from the OpenNebula >> guys ? >> >> Thanks, >> Pranav >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jie Feng [mailto:jie.f...@citrix.com] >> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 12:07 AM >> To: sebgoa; cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Opennebula marketplace integration >> >> Hi Sebastien, >> >> It is great to hear that you want to build hook for Opennebula marketplace >> listings into CloudStack. The more we can do to enable products and services >> for our Cloudstack users, the better. Since Opennebula listings are all >> templates, you can build hooks directly into the CloudStack Template UI, or >> into CloudStack Marketplace (once we have consensus). >> >> There are a few things to think about to build hooks into the CloudStack UI, >> as I have gone through those when I was thinking about the CS Marketplace >> feature: >> >> 1. Who can import the listings/templates? >> 2. Who owns the listing? In CloudStack, templates have to belong to an >> account. When I designed CS Marketplace, I made the listing ownerless. >> 3. What is the UI for admin and user? >> 4. What listing items user can see? For example, the template might be for >> KVM, where the cloud only supports XenServer/VMware. Do you filter it out? >> For CS Marketplace, I don't filter it out since I can group multiple >> templates into one listing entry, and user can pick which one to instantiate. >> >> Jie >> >> >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: sebgoa [mailto:run...@gmail.com] >>> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 4:17 AM >>> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org >>> Cc: Jie Feng; Sonny Chhen >>> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Opennebula marketplace integration >>> >>> >>> On Dec 19, 2012, at 12:11 PM, Pranav Saxena wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Sebastien , >>>> >>>> The openNebula marketplace looks good . Regarding the plugin on the >>> Cloudstack UI , we can provide you/leads of Opennebula with that >>> since we already have it developed for the actual Cloudstack >>> marketplace I was working on and make it point to the OpenNebula >>> Marketplace by modifying the URL . >>>> >>>> But first the question arises , is the community in favor of this ? >>>> Last time >>> there were some issues on the ML regarding integration of marketplace >>> and I reckon , we are yet to reach a consensus. >>> >>> Hi Pranav, >>> >>> You are right in that the other marketplace thread has not yet >>> reached consensus. We need to bring it to consensus. >>> I will reply to it. >>> >>> My understanding though is that folks are in favor of marketplaces in >>> general but that the code of such marketplace should not be in the >>> cloudstack code. >>> That means that you could put your marketplace code on github but >>> commit the "hooks" to it in cloudstack. In a very similar fashion >>> that we have several storage backends. >>> >>> Where it links to opennebula's marketplace is if your hooks can be >>> used to connect to their marketplace. That'd be great. >>> >>> Does that make sense ? >>> >>> -Sebastien >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Pranav >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: sebgoa [mailto:run...@gmail.com] >>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 2:49 PM >>>> To: cloudstack >>>> Subject: [DISCUSS] Opennebula marketplace integration >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> In the previous marketplace discussion I mentioned the Opennebula >>> marketplace: >>>> >>>> http://marketplace.c12g.com/appliance >>>> http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel3.8:marketplace >>>> >>>> I talked to the leads of opennebula: Ignacio de Lorente and Ruben >>> Montero and they are interested to integrate their marketplace with >>> CloudStack. >>>> >>>> The concept is to leave the marketplace itself where it is and >>>> develop >>> hooks/plugins in CloudStack to import images from the marketplace >>> into a CloudStack deployment. >>>> >>>> A user would set a global settings 'marketplace' to the opennebula >>> marketplace server. This would in turn display the images that are in >>> the marketplace within the template UI. >>>> >>>> Thoughts ? >>>> >>>> -Sebastien >> >
