Hi Chad, I've started sketching out contribution instructions and guidelines here:
https://github.com/basho/riak_control/wiki/Contributing-to-Riak-Control I'd appreciate any feedback on how this could be clearer, or more helpful. - Chris -- Christopher Meiklejohn Software Engineer Basho Technologies, Inc. On Monday, February 11, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Chad Engler wrote: > Perfect! Thanks Chris, look forward to getting my hands dirty. > > -Chad > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Meiklejohn [mailto:cmeiklej...@basho.com] > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 12:53 PM > To: Chad Engler > Cc: Ian Ha; riak-users@lists.basho.com (mailto:riak-users@lists.basho.com) > Subject: Re: Riak Data-UI > > Hi Chad, > > First off, let me apologize for my delayed reply. The blizzard caused me to > be away from my computer a bit longer than I would have liked to. ;) > > I'm in complete agreement with you regarding the roadmap and a document > assisting people in putting together a development environment and > contributing. > > I'm going to be working today to put together a contributors document on Riak > Control and will post back to the list once it's been completed. In regards > to the roadmap, once we decide which features will be targeted for the next > release, I'll have issues created for each of these on the GitHub project, > which will be publicly visible. > > Thanks for being part of the community, and do not hesitate to contact me (on > list preferably, for the benefit of the community) if you have any further > questions or feedback. > > - Chris > > -- > Christopher Meiklejohn > Software Engineer > Basho Technologies, Inc. > > > > On Monday, February 11, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Chad Engler wrote: > > > Just bumping this, I think the most important part is if there is a > > roadmap, or a way to get involved. Object browsing and disk/merge stats are > > important features that would be really helpful and if there are docs on > > how we can get started contributing to Riak Control, that would be great. > > > > -Chad > > > > From: Ian Ha [mailto:i...@blutrumpet.com] > > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 10:09 AM > > To: Chad Engler > > Cc: Christopher Meiklejohn; riak-users@lists.basho.com > > (mailto:riak-users@lists.basho.com) > > (mailto:riak-users@lists.basho.com) > > Subject: Re: Riak Data-UI > > > > Also: Is there an ETA on Riak Control? > > > > On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Ian Ha <i...@blutrumpet.com > > (mailto:i...@blutrumpet.com)> wrote: > > +1. > > > > > > Developing a comprehensive admin console would be great. > > > > > > I would add merge statistics to Chad's feature requests. Would be nice to > > see who how much disk space is saved during merges, which merge/threshold > > triggers were hit, and possible disk usage at that time. > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Chad Engler <chad.eng...@patlive.com > > (mailto:chad.eng...@patlive.com)> wrote: > > > > > > > Some of my favorite features of Futon were the ability to edit the > > > configuration of the server from the web interface, check job status > > > (compaction, view indexing, etc), and used almost all the time was the > > > overview to see data size and number of documents: > > > > > > > > > This little table was the best because I could immediately see who is > > > using what, how many documents are there (many times to make sure the > > > count is going up at a rate that it should be); and of course I could run > > > map-reduces in there as well, but I understand that works a bit > > > differently in Riak. > > > > > > Some other nice-to-haves would be: > > > > > > > > > · Paged-Object browser > > > > > > > > > o You can jump to a single value if you know the key > > > > > > > > > o Links can be clicked through to view the different linked values > > > > > > > > > · Create/Delete/Modify buckets and bucket attributes > > > > > > > > > · Graphs for stats > > > > > > > > > o I'm not sure if history for the /stats call is saved somewhere so > > > I'm not sure if this is possible without a little overhead > > > > > > > > > o Right now I use the munin plugins, but I'm not sure if I get the > > > full benefit of all the stats in there > > > > > > > > > · More intelligent log viewer > > > > > > > > > o Erlang logs are pretty nasty if you aren't into the language, it > > > would be nice to have a more "parsed" view into what an error > > > actually *means* > > > > > > > > > · Love the memory usage, and ring partition usage but some disk > > > stats would be nice > > > > > > > > > o On the node list it would be nice to see disk space usage and/or > > > iops as well > > > > > > I wouldn't mind contributing to the project, I just don't see a file on > > > "contributing", or the roadmap for Riak Control, or a backlog, or > > > anything like that so if I wasn't sure where to spend time if I was to. > > > > > > -Chad > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Christopher Meiklejohn [mailto:cmeiklej...@basho.com] > > > Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 2:07 PM > > > To: Chad Engler > > > Cc: riak-users@lists.basho.com (mailto:riak-users@lists.basho.com) > > > Subject: Re: Riak Data-UI > > > > > > Hi Chad, > > > > > > We decided to focus our development on Riak Control moving forward on > > > administration features, specifically understanding how your cluster is > > > performing, managing node addition and removal and visualizing > > > distribution of data throughout the ring. > > > > > > However, I'd be very interested in hearing which features of Futon you > > > find most useful and what you're looking for in a UI for Riak. > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > - Chris > > > > > > -- > > > Christopher Meiklejohn > > > Software Engineer > > > Basho Technologies, Inc. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Chad Engler wrote: > > > > > > > Hey guys, > > > > > > > > I've found that with CouchDB an interface like Futon is extremely > > > > helpful. I understand that Riak Control was going to have > > > > object-browsing features, but they have been pushed-back and/or > > > > abandoned. Is there a data browser out there that is easy to use and > > > > provides features similar to Futon? I've looked at Rekon, and it just > > > > isn't very useful IMO. > > > > > > > > Any pointers would be appreciated. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Chad Engler > > > > Telephony Programmer > > > > PATLive > > > > 1.800.775.7790 x746 (tel:1.800.775.7790%20x746) > > > > chad.eng...@patlive.com (mailto:chad.eng...@patlive.com) > > > > (mailto:chad.eng...@patlive.com) > > > > > > > > Hosted Communications | Friendly Service www.patlive.com > > > > (http://www.patlive.com) > > > > (http://www.patlive.com) (http://www.patlive.com/) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > riak-users mailing list > > > > riak-users@lists.basho.com (mailto:riak-users@lists.basho.com) > > > > (mailto:riak-users@lists.basho.com) > > > > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > riak-users mailing list > > > riak-users@lists.basho.com (mailto:riak-users@lists.basho.com) > > > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > riak-users mailing list > > riak-users@lists.basho.com (mailto:riak-users@lists.basho.com) > > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
