On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Steve Wilson <steve.wil...@citrix.com> 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. > > I'm no developer, but if there's anything I can assist with as an Ops guy I'd be happy to help. -- Erik Weber
