Some more potential questions. 1. What development environment do you use? [ ] Eclipse [ ] Intellij IDEA [ ] Visual Studio [ ] Sublime [ ] vim Other
2. What tools are you using to deploy/configure your application? [ ] Ansible [ ] Chef [ ] Puppet [ ] SaltStack Other 3. What do you struggle with when developing and deploying applications on OpenStack? Free form answers. I’ll try to aggregate all of the Q&A into one list this week. Thanks, Everett On Jan 21, 2014, at 11:55 AM, Everett Toews <everett.to...@rackspace.com> wrote: > On Jan 21, 2014, at 10:29 AM, Dave Neary wrote: > >> On 01/21/2014 02:25 AM, Everett Toews wrote: >>> There are a number of issues that stand out to me but before getting >>> into them some quick definitions to be clear what I'm talking about. >>> >>> OpenStack developer = developer working on OpenStack itself >>> OpenStack operator = operator deploying/maintaining an OpenStack cloud >>> application developer = developer working on application being deployed >>> on an OpenStack cloud >>> application operator = operator deploying/maintaining an application on >>> an OpenStack cloud >>> users = any of OpenStack operator, application developer, application >>> operator >> >> It would be really useful, I think, to match these up with some of the >> personas we have, so that we are all talking about the same thing >> (there's a big difference between someone deploying a small private >> cloud and someone operating a large public cloud, for example). > > I attended your session on personas at the HK Summit. I was the guy ranting > about SDKs from the back. ;) > > The personas are definitely useful and I think we could use them to help > inform the definitions of the above. Here's what I'm starting to envision for > the survey. > > On the About You page [1] we update the What best describes your involvement > with OpenStack? section as follows > > [ ] OpenStack cloud service provider - provides public or hosted private > cloud services for other organizations > [ ] Ecosystem vendor - provides software or solutions that enable others to > build or run OpenStack clouds > [ ] Private cloud operator - runs an OpenStack private cloud for their own > organization > [ ] Application developer - has API or dashboard credentials and > deploys/maintains an application running on an OpenStack cloud > [ ] Application operator - has API or dashboard credentials and develops an > application running on an OpenStack cloud > > If the survey taker checks Application developer or Application operator then > they are shown a survey page with the questions we are formulating here > instead of/in addition to the About Your OpenStack Deployments page. > > I don't think we want to have the role definitions above too long but > anything can help. > > Can you link us to the personas work and how they might map to the roles as > above? > > [sidebar] > It seems the About You page already makes the distinction between someone > deploying a small private cloud and someone operating a large public cloud. > However, I think the line between "...or hosted private cloud services for > other organizations" and "runs an OpenStack private cloud for their own > organization" is pretty thin. "hosted private cloud services for other > organizations" sounds like a small-scale public cloud to me. The real > distinction being whether you're doing it for your org or for others. The > questions on the About Your OpenStack Deployments page make the distinction > between scale. > > They could be reworded as > > [ ] OpenStack operator for a public cloud - provides public or hosted private > cloud services for other organizations > [ ] OpenStack operator for a private cloud - runs an OpenStack private cloud > for their own organization > > This is apart from the app dev oriented discussion and hence the sidebar. > [/sidebar] > > Thanks, > Everett > > [1] https://www.openstack.org/user-survey/OrgInfo > _______________________________________________ > User-committee mailing list > user-commit...@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/user-committee _______________________________________________ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack
