There is now a network subteam as well. https://launchpad.net/~nova-network http://wiki.openstack.org/Teams
-tr3buchet On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Vishvananda Ishaya <vishvana...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I've been assimilating the plans from the design summit into blueprints. > In the process i've noticed that we have a lot planned for the next few > months. Some of these changes are quite large and involve people from many > different companies that are working on openstack. In order to facilitate > feature work over the next few months, I've decided to create a number of > subteams. > > There is too much work going on in nova to manage everything in one large > group, so for sanity's sake, I'm attempting to break the work up into > manageable chunks. The subteam idea is experimental. We will try it for > the first two milestones and re-evaluate after e2 whether we need to make > some further changes. > > My vision is that each subteam is an open group where interested parties > can communicate and plan features. Some of the teams will initially be more > research oriented, but ultimately these teams will be focused on > implementation. Each team will have a 'lead' which will function as a point > of contact for the nova PTL. I'm currently on all of the teams, and I will > do my best to keep track of work going on in all parts, but I may need to > depend on the lead for help with scheduling and planning. > > A rough outline of the teams responsibilities are: > * Planning new features related to the specific area of focus > * Congealing plans into specific blueprints > * Targeting blueprints to milestones > * Assigning blueprints to specific individuals or groups > * Triaging bugs related to the specific area of focus > * Reviewing any code submissions related to the specific area of focus > > I want to keep these teams very lightweight; we don't need more unnecessary > process and overhead. I've created launchpad teams for all of the major > areas, and each of these teams has a mailing list. I'm not sure that > communication over these mailing lists is the best option, but we need a way > to get things started. The launchpad teams are all open, so if any of the > areas interest you, please join the team and subscribe to the mailing list. > > I'm going to start by assigning all related blueprints to each team. The > teams will then re-assign blueprints to individuals as needed. I will work > with all of the teams to target these blueprints to specific milestones. Any > blueprints that don't fit under a particular team I will manage separately. > I'm also going to attempt to do the same with bugs as they come in. Help > triaging bugs is of course always appreciated. > > Here is a list of teams, including a link to the launchpad page and a short > description: > > *Nova API Team* > https://launchpad.net/~nova-api > All things api related, with special focus on additional features and > cleanup of the openstack api. > lead - bcwaldon > > *Nova Database Team* > https://launchpad.net/~nova-database > Cleanup of the db layer, DB testing, alternative backends > lead - _0x44 (unconfirmed) > > *Nova Scaling Team* > https://launchpad.net/~nova-scaling > Distributed zones, aggregation, geographically diverse zones. > lead - comstud > > *Nova Orchestration Team* > https://launchpad.net/~nova-orchestration > Orchestration, workflow management for requests, state machine for recovery > lead - sandywalsh > > *Nova Upgrades Team* > https://launchpad.net/~nova-upgrades > Seamless upgrades for nova. Some research and planning still needs to be > done here. > lead -rjh > > *Nova Feature Parity Team* > Full feature parity for xenapi and libvirt/kvm. Includes user facing parity > issues like common images. > https://launchpad.net/~nova-feature-parity > lead - sleepsonthefloor > > *Openstack Volumes Team* > https://launchpad.net/~openstack-volume > Volumes api, drivers, scheduling, zone support. > lead - renuka > > *Nova Auth Team* > https://launchpad.net/~nova-auth > Code for Authorization checking in nova and integration with Keystone. > Planning is pretty much done here, but it will touch a lot of the code, so > we could use a few people focusing on it. Team is primarily to help collect > volunteers. > lead - vishy > > *Nova Security Improvements Team* > Planning for security improvements to nova. Due to the large number of code > changes being worked on in essex, we aren't planning on locking things down > completely in the next six months. This will likely be mostly planning in > the essex time frame, with actual implementations to hit in F. > https://launchpad.net/~nova-security-improvements Security > lead - rjh > > *Nova Operational Support Team* > https://launchpad.net/~nova-operations > Collecting requirements from operational groups and generating tooling and > admin apis for operations. This seems like a very important team, but I > don't have someone to head it up yet. Volunteers requested > lead - (no lead yet) > > *Nova Testing Cleanup Team* > https://launchpad.net/~nova-testing > We have discussed cleaning up the unit tests and separating out integration > tests for a while, but this needs a specific team to focus on it. We need > volunteers and a lead. > lead - (no lead yet) > > > Once again, please join any teams that you have a stake in. If you are > contributing code to one of these areas, please communicate with the team to > make sure that you are not duplicating work. Each team is more than welcome > to find other ways of communicating, but please keep discussions open as > much as possible. The Openstack Volumes team, for example, is meeting > regularly in irc. > > Expect to see all relevant blueprints assigned to teams over the next day > or two. Good luck and thanks to everyone for the hard work. > > Vish > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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