All,
Primate has so far been led with a small set of collaborators [1] including
myself who've been involved in its development. I've had a meeting with some of
the community members yesterday, and we think Primate can benefit from a
community-wide collaboration.
For this purpose, I want to propose to lead a small SIG (special interest
group) within the project that I can help organize at least until Primate
reaches feature parity wrt the old UI, i.e. until its first technical release
(est. for the next 3 months by end ~Jan 2020). The SIG primarily requires
development collaboration but users are encouraged to test Primate and give
feedback.
Action - contributors who are interested, can you (a) share your availability
in the next 2-3 months and (b) RSVP your email to me privately so I can share
the next SIG meeting details with you. Thanks.
Based on the recent discussion and feedback (collaborators from ShapeBlue,
EWerk and Indiqus) I propose the following once we move Primate to a repository
under ASF [2] next week:
* Hour-long bi-weekly meeting on Hangout/Meet/Slack where we discuss, plan,
schedule and assign task(s) to be attempted/done in two weeks
* Share meeting-notes/summary, project updates and progress, and action
items on dev@ ML bi-weekly basis
* Keep development and collaboration in-line with CloudStack project
* Github based development in the new repo [2]
* Discuss features/bugs via Github issues
* Code reviews/discussion on pull requests
* Require merging guideline: preferably 2 x LGTM code reviews (in the
voting we've proposed 1xLGTM until technical preview to avoid bottlenecks)
* Milestones and projects to track progress, triage/plan
* Use Github wiki or docs [3] folder within repo for documentation
* Testing via Travis (TBD), maybe manual testing/screenshots until we
figure out PR/QA automation and best practices
We're yet to figure out release process, upgrades, migration etc that needs
discussion as part of Primate SIG, but let me braindump my views that releases
be:
* Linear and forward (assuming, Primate doesn't assume any
version/specific features; all features should be auto-discoverable via API and
their supported params/responses)
* Primate should support any CloudStack version that has auto-discovery
feature like cloudmonkey - Ideally, all features/views/actions must be
implemented without assuming a version of CloudStack; but use API
auto-discovery and supported API params/responses to figure out UX/UI
components, this way
* Faster and quicker releases than CloudStack
* Should at least be tested against 4.13.x and 4.14.x
* Must say which versions of CloudStack are supported (versions and
feature matrix)
* Optionally released as browser extension/addon based?
Thoughts, feedback, objections? Thanks.
[1] https://github.com/shapeblue/primate/graphs/contributors
[2] New repo request: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-primate,
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-19274
[3] https://github.com/shapeblue/primate/tree/master/docs
Regards,
Rohit Yadav
Software Architect, ShapeBlue
https://www.shapeblue.com
[email protected]
www.shapeblue.com
Amadeus House, Floral Street, London WC2E 9DPUK
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