Hi Everyone, It was great to get to see a number of you at the recent CCC in Budapest. While I was there, I got to meet face to face with individuals working for several companies that have a real stake in the commercial success of the CloudStack project.
After joining Citrix (and becoming involved in CloudStack) about a year ago, I’ve come to believe that we need to do more to mature our quality practices around this codebase. We all like to say #cloudstackworks (and it’s true), but this is a massive codebase that’s used in the most demanding situations. We have large telecommunications companies and enterprises who are betting their businesses on this software. It has to be great! There has been quite a bit of discussion on the mailing list in recent months about how we improve in this area. There is plenty of passion, but we haven’t made enough concrete progress as a community. In my discussions with key contributors as CCC, there was general agreement that the DEV list isn’t a good forum for hashing out these kinds of things. Email is too low-bandwidth and too impersonal. At CCC, I discussed with several people the idea that we commission a small sub team to go hash out a proposal for how we handle the following topics within the ACS community (which can then be brought back to the larger community for ratification): * Continuous integration and test automation * Gating of commits * Overall commit workflow We are looking for volunteers to commit to being part of this team. This would imply a serious commitment. We don’t want hangers on or observers. This will entail real work and late night meetings. We’re looking for people who are serious contributors to the codebase. >From Citrix, David Nalley and Animesh Chaturvedi have booth told me they’re >willing to commit to this project. They’ve both managed ACS releases and have >a really good view into the current process — and I know both are passionate >about improving our process. From my CCC discussions, I believe there are >individuals from Schuberg Philis, Shape Blue and Cloud Ops who are willing to >commit to this process. If you are willing to be part of this team to drive forward our community, please reply here. Thanks, -Steve Steve Wilson VP & Product Unit Manager Cloud Software Citrix @virtualsteve
