Thanks Rafael, I had no idea of the formation and origin of the group and your introduction as well as your contributions are very welcome.
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 9:40 AM, sebgoa <run...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Aug 25, 2015, at 12:41 AM, Rafael Weingärtner < > rafaelweingart...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Daan, > > I think that we should do a proper introduction. > > It might seem kind of odd to some people that a bunch of folks suddenly > > started working for free. > > > > Our first PR was done a while ago: > > https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/560. Then we did > > https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/700, and the last one was the > > https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/714, that is still in the > review > > process. > > > > Until now you know Pedro (PR 714) and Critofolini (PR 700), but we are a > > team of five. We work under the same project and the improvements/clean > ups > > that we have been doing to the ACS is a way we found to improve our > > knowledge of the software that we are using. > > > > I am a Ph. D. candidate, researching/developing autonomic models that can > > be used to manage and optimize a cloud computing environment that provide > > infrastructure as a service. We have done an extensive work comparing and > > discussing cloud computing orchestration platforms that are most widely > > used. CloudStack was the orchestration tool chosen to develop my > proposals, > > in order to test and validate them. > > > > I have several undergrad students working with me; none of them had real > > experience developing java web applications, the PRs we are creating is > the > > way we found to teach them some Java developing skills, while getting to > > know a little better of ACS core and architecture. At the same time we > are > > contributing to the software we use. > > > > The team that works with me and you will probably see creating more PRs > is > > the following: > > > > - Gabriel Beims Bräscher > > - Pedro Henrique Pereira Martins > > - Lucas Berri Cristofolini > > - Alexandre Santana > > > > > > All of them are Computer Science student. They all are developing their > > graduation projects within my thesis. Sadly, some of the things we are > > doing here and that we have already prototyped, we cannot commit to the > ACS > > community (at least not yet); hence it is part of a thesis project. > > However, once we start publishing papers, I think you will like what we > > have been working on. > > > > Hope we can keep up the good work and keep learning with you all guys > from > > the ACS community. > > Waiting to hear the feedbacks on PR 714 ;) > > > > > > Hi Rafael, thanks a lot for the introduction. That's exactly the type of > commitment that the community needs. > > We will look out for PRs from this group and hopefully will benefit from > your thesis work at a latter date. > > Welcome, > > -sebastien > > > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 1:10 AM, Daan Hoogland <daan.hoogl...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> everybody, I will LGTM PR #714 [1] and I would like to have more then > one > >> extra pair of eyes this time. Some group of folks, I know there is at > > least > >> three of them, have decided to invest in cleaning some code in CS and I > >> think their work deserves full attention. they worked on refactoring > some > >> of the CitrixResourceBase hierarchy [2] and now they are busy on the > >> ComponentLifecycleBase > >> hierarchy. > >> > >> Please have a look, > >> > >> [1] https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/714 > >> [2] https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/700 > >> > >> -- > >> Daan > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Rafael Weingärtner > > -- Daan
