count me jclouds integration for more recent API features Regards Priyanka
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Sebastien Goasguen <run...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jul 23, 2014, at 11:32 AM, Aled Sage <aled.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > We are keen users of and contributors to jclouds [1], including for the > CloudStack integration. > > > > For those who don't know it, Apache jclouds is the leading java cloud > portability library, used by a lot of companies and several Apache projects > including Brooklyn (for which I'm a lead) and Stratos. > > > > Would anyone in the CloudStack community be interested in helping out > with updating and improving the jclouds integration? Unfortunately the > jclouds CloudStack code hasn't had as much attention as it deserves over > the past couple of releases. > > > > I just targeted Exoscale [2] (i.e. CloudStack 4.3) for the jclouds live > test suite, and got a range of failures. There are some concrete tasks that > can come out of this: > > > > * Ability to automatically skip inappropriate tests - e.g. if only > > basic networking is available, then report the advanced networking > > tests as skipped rather than failed. > > (This could use the API Discovery [3]) > > * Investigate other failures, to make the test suite more robust (or > > potentially to find regressions in CloudStack). > > * Extend the jclouds integration for more recent API features (e.g. > > for API Discovery [3]) > > * Improve the publicity and documentation for jclouds CloudStack - > > e.g. it's not even mentioned in [4] > > > > +1 from me of course. I take care of libcloud, but jclouds also needs > attention. > > > It's also worth noting that the jclouds live test suite is a great > regression test suite that could be run at least once on every CloudStack > release. For example, it would most likely spot regressions such as > CLOUDSTACK-6508 [5,6]. > > > > I applied the patch for 6508 in the 4.3 branch, so you will see it in 4.3.1 > > > Aled > > > > [1] jclouds.apache.org <http://jclouds.apache.org> > > [2] www.exoscale.ch <http://www.exoscale.ch> > > [3] http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/api/apidocs-4.3/user/listApis.html > > [4] https://jclouds.apache.org/guides/ > > [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-6508 > > [6] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-557 > >
