Hi Steve, I would like to be part of this too. I am new to CloudStack development but have good experience managing quality processes and CI in distributed teams.
Amin Alid CTO, Safe Swiss Cloud AG skype: aminalid +41 44 586 0064 +41 43 541 5704 safeswisscloud.ch anolim.com On 12/01/2014 10:12 PM, Steve Wilson wrote: > 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 >
