I can probably make it to Austin then.  We could also meet in Boston or
NYC.  Any ideas you guys have are MOST welcome... let's get them in a pile.

Judd Maltin
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On Jun 2, 2013 5:31 PM, "Adam Spiers" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks Rob / Judd / Simon for the clarification.  Which of you will be
> in Austin when I'm there (June 24-26)?  Seems like a good opportunity
> to continue this discussion.
>
> Rob Hirschfeld ([email protected]) wrote:
> > Adam / Chris / CB Community,
> >
> > I tried to frame this during the design call and it's worth repeating ->
> the original scope for CB2 was overly ambitious and I believe we need a
> more practical target ("CB2 core") for our next iteration.
> >
> > We've accomplished a lot in CB2 trunk from database schema, jig
> framework, Chef 11, Rails 3, Ruby 1.9, automated testing, integrated docs,
> improved packaging and much other real progress.
> >
> > Most importantly, we have LEARNED a lot.  With the pause for Pebbles,
> we've had a chance to reflect.  The #1 lesson for me is that our
> orchestration plans were incomplete and too large.  It is now clear to me
> that the orchestration complexity was a major factor in our delivery slips.
> >
> > My objective is to start bringing these lessons learned to the community
> for discussion.   I think a dialog about them is important; however, we
> need to accept that the code base will be "down-factored" to achieve a core
> functionality set.  These functions will include work from above that we've
> accomplished and should also deliver important CB2 objectives like
> late-bound networking, heterogeneous O/S, online cache mode, scale,
> multiple CMDBs, and the ability share/upstream cookbooks.
> >
> > I've seen some great discussion on this topic so far.  I hope my $0.02
> helps add clarity.
> >
> > I'm going offline for a week - I'm looking forward to seeing where
> you've taken this when I return.
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: crowbar-bounces On Behalf Of Adam Spiers
> > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 5:38 AM
> > To: crowbar
> > Subject: Re: [Crowbar] CB2 Core Design update
> >
> > Adam Spiers ([email protected]) wrote:
> > > Rob Hirschfeld ([email protected]) wrote:
> > > > Victor and I were kicking around the DB models a little more.  The
> result was a further refinement/simplification for discussion.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 1)      Deployment is the top level thing.  Basically, all the roles
> hang off the deployment (through the snapshot pointer).  When a role has a
> prerequisite, that prerequisite is always resolved from within the
> deployment.  The discussion image shows the role prereq chain in blue.
> > >
> > > Just checking you saw my feedback yesterday?  I'm not yet convinced
> > > how well this will work, but I'm very willing to be persuaded via
> > > answers to my questions :)
> >
> > Just as an aside, I'm sort of puzzled that we're going through another
> fundamental iteration of redesign of 2.0 at this point.  Have the
> timescales for release shifted sufficiently far into the future to make
> this feasible?  I haven't been too involved in those discussions so maybe I
> missed something, but I thought the goal was to aim for a
> > 2.0 release relatively soon after Pebbles?
> >
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