Hi Jay, Thanks for taking the initiative to send this out!
I added comments to your points are inline below: > > Proposal for Alignment > ====================== > > I think the following steps would be good to get done by the time Essex > rolls out the door in April: > > 1) Create a stable/diablo branch of the openstack/openstack-chef cookbook > repo and maintain it in the same way that we maintain stable branches for > core OpenStack projects. I propose we use the branch point that NTT PF Lab > used to create their fork of the upstream repo. > I like the idea of maintaining a stable set of cookbooks for the official releases. The NTT branch sounds fine to me as a starting point for diablo. At the time of the diablo release I was maintaining cookbooks for SmokeStack here: https://github.com/dprince/openstack_cookbooks. Using these cookbooks around the date of the diablo release would be an option as well. > > 2) Work with Matt Ray and other Chef experts to combine any and all best > practices that may be contained in the non-official cookbook repos into the > upstream official repository. From a cursory overview, there are some > differences in how databags are handled, how certs are handled, how certain > cookbooks are constructed, and of course differences in the actual > cookbooks in the repos themselves. > 3) Consolidate documentation on how to use the cookbooks, the best > practices used in constructing the cookbooks, and possibly some > videos/tutorials walking folks through this critical piece of the OpenStack > puzzle. > This sounds great. > > 4) Create Jenkins builders for stable branch deployment testing. We > currently test the official development cookbooks by way of SmokeStack > gates on all core OpenStack projects. Would be great to get the same > testing automated for non-development branches of the cookbooks. > SmokeStack would easily support testing stable releases. In fact it be a lot easier to pull off stable release testing than it is to chase trunk like I'm currently doing :) I actually have a 'Libvirt Mysql Milestone Proposed (Diablo)' configuration in SmokeStack. I just haven't been running it mostly because I was focused on upstream releases and commits. Limited resources and time.... Getting more people involved would be great. > > Thoughts and criticism most welcome, and apologies in advance if I got any > of the above history wrong. Feel free to correct me! > > Best, > -jay > One final note: We are looking at adding dual support for Fedora/puppet and Ubuntu/chef to SmokeStack in the near future. A guy named Derek Higgins from Red Hat has made excellent progress on this front. -- Dan Prince princ...@alumni.jmu.edu
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