Hi Dan: I am new to this project, so please bear with newbie questions ... perhaps my wiki-fu is just weak today!
To participate on basic community projects like these, how do we get started? (in terms of co-ordination with others who might be working on it already, or even other teams like horizon). In particular, I can help with some of these not-so-shiny projects like devstack updates, CLI updates, horizon improvements, etc. What is the next step? Regards, Mandeep On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Dan Wendlandt <d...@nicira.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~netstack > Post to : netstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~netstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~netstack Post to : netstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~netstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
