Thanks all!
2013/10/17 kel...@backbonetechnology.com <kel...@backbonetechnology.com> > Thank you to all the students and mentors for bringing new and interesting > features into cloudstack. With all the hard work and dedication, we ended > up with some great additions. > > See you in Amsterdam. > > Sent from my HTC > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "sebgoa" <run...@gmail.com> > To: "dev@cloudstack.apache.org" <dev@cloudstack.apache.org> > Subject: [GSoC] Congratulations and Wrap up > Date: Thu, Oct 17, 2013 7:19 AM > > 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/heads/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 now…) > > 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 >
