Hi team, As we start to look forward to Folsom, I know there will be a lot of excitement around shiny new directions we can take Quantum (L3, VPN/DCI, etc.). This is great, and we will be moving in this direction during Folsom. I know many people are looking to participate here.
But I also want to stress the importance of also focusing on less shiny tasks that are central to building a solid and usable platform. To this end, I wanted to highlight a link I sent out during last weeks meeting: http://wiki.openstack.org/QuantumStarterBugs This page has a pointer to low-hanging fruit bugs as well as a list of "community projects" that are not necessarily shiny, but are critical to the progress of the project. This includes things like improving the CLI, integrating with Horizon/Keystone, building a system test infrastructure, updating documentation, multi-host devstack, etc. In many cases, these are items that we targeted for Essex, but didn't have sufficient core dev resources to tackle. With Quantum becoming core in Folsom, we can't afford to have that happen again, as expectations around Quantums usability, robustness and integration with other projects will be much higher in Folsom than it was for Essex. I encourage others to add items to this page as well. My general rule is that something is a community project if its unlikely that someone is doing the work to enable something for their platform/company. As a hint, if a bunch of people who express interesting in working on something, its probably not a community project. If people have been saying "hey, someone should really fix/improve X" for a while, the fix would help just about everyone, but no one has yet stepped forward, its probably a community project :) So in sum, as an open source project, we must make sure everyone is encouraged and rewarded for working on core community projects. I also want to make sure sufficient time at the summit is dedicated to how we will progress on both community projects. Since we will soon be able to register sessions for the Folsom summits, I'd like people to chime in on the list for what they think are the most important "community projects", as well as "shiny objects" for us to discuss at the summit. Hopefully this will make the process of designing sessions more collaborative and community-driver, rather than a game of "I better try and register the session on X before someone else does". Here are some initial thoughts: community projects: - improve system test / devstack / tempest - quantum authn + authz (yes, we still do not have basic API auth) - better integration with openstack CI team (we want automated smoketests to run on each check-in) - quantum CLI / client improvements. (many changes needed to be more inline with other core projects) - reworking of quantum / nova integration (remove dependence on nova db, etc.) - better model for learning what extensions are supported by the currently running plugin. - quantum + horizon GUI flow (and framework for widgets that use API extensions). - melange / quantum integration - DHCP API / service shiny objects: - L3 API - VPN / data-center-interconnect - firewalling / security groups. Please reply with your own input. Thanks, Dan
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