I would like to thank Ian who did a fabulous job on ldap plugin and also Sebastian who was always around to guide the students and mentors. It would be good to see them at Amsterdam as I am also going to be around.
-abhi On 17/10/13 7:49 pm, "sebgoa" <run...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi, > >This week end is the Google Summer of Code summit. This year we had the >chance to get five students in the program: Dharmesh, Meng, Ian, Nguyen >and Shiva and I'd be remiss not to acknowledge their hard work. > >I would like to congratulate all of them on working hard this past summer >(program finished late september), and challenging themselves to learn >the open source way through our project at the Apache Software Foundation. > >Thanks also to the mentors: Kelcey, Hugo and Abhi who took time out of >their busy schedule and $dayjob to help these students. > >-Ian Duffy made committer during the GSoC period, he developed a new >LDAP/AD plugin and did an outstanding job doing his development in a >complete software development pipeline with 90% unit test coverage, >automatic building of rpms through jenkins etc. Check it out: >http://youtu.be/-3LG8wP7Zac >http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-US/Apache_CloudStack/4.2.0/html/Admin >_Guide/LDAPserver-for-user-authentication.html >Lately Ian has worked with me on a Google compute engine (GCE) interface >but this was not part of his charter for GSoC, just a bonus: >https://pypi.python.org/pypi/gcloud/0.0.1 > >-Nguyen worked on extending our GRE SDN controller to support Xen and KVM >hypervisor. >All his code is in the sdnextensions branch, and once Hugo is done >reviewing it (or any other volunteer), we will merge it for 4.3 >https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cloudstack.git;a=tree;h=refs/hea >ds/sdnextensions;hb=sdnextensions >Nguyen has done a terrific job tracking his progress in JIRA and dividing >work in sub-tasks: >https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-1779 > >Both Nguyen and Ian will be at the CCC conference in Amsterdam, Nguyen >will talk about 'Autoscaling without netscaler' a patch he submitted >recently, and Ian will talk about gcloud. > >-Meng worked on integration of whirr in CloudStack. The goal was to be >able to provision Hadoop clusters in an elastic manner and use Yarn to >expose a map-reduce API compatible with AWS EMR. This was a very >ambitious project that required learning whirr, working across projects >at the ASF and learning how to create new APIs. Her final patch is on >review board: >https://reviews.apache.org/r/14347/ >This will need additional work and more architectural thinking before we >can use it, but is a solid base to think through how to expose an AWS EMR >api with CloudStack. > >-Shiva worked on a new UI framework using bootstrap and angular.js, he >progressed well and his code is now in master under tools/ngui , he also >has a final patch in my inbox. Bad practice but review board is finicky >with large patches :( This UI is very interesting because it can operate >as standalone UI, meaning that you can run locally to manage your cloud >remotely. > >Unfortunately Dharmesh was busy and did not progress well enough to pass >the mid-term mark, he did try to tackle the big task of moving us from >com.cloud to org.apache: >https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-212 something that we >still need to do and requires some planning/coordination and should be >done very early in the release cycle (like nowŠ) > >Early on they all worked on a great document that is built on jenkins but >not released as part of our docs, it served the purpose of getting >everyone through the "bonding period" and have all students learn how to >submit a patch: >http://jenkins.buildacloud.org/view/All/job/docs-4.3-gsoc-guide/ >I will try to wrap it up to have a final version of our GSoC 2013 for >Apache CloudStack. > >Again congratulations to all, I am thrilled to have had you in the >project and I hope you will continue participating in the community, we >will hopefully do this again next year with another set of students. > >Cheers, > >-Sebastien >
