Re: [Openstack] [Swift] Interested in implementing swift ring builder server

2012-06-19 Thread Florian Hines
Hi Mark, I forgot to grab the blueprint but I finally got around to start working on this. I'll hopefully have something to put up for review next week. This version just support's basic GET/POST ops to retrieve the rings or to view/alter/add devices to the ring in bulk. Having someone else

Re: [Openstack] [Swift] Interested in implementing swift ring builder server

2012-06-19 Thread Mark Gius
Alright. Is this something you're more or less done with and are just cleaning up or have you just started? I've got my guys reading up on swift and are about ready to dive in with the coding, so if you're more or less done I'll find another project for them to work on. If you're just started

Re: [Openstack] [Swift] Interested in implementing swift ring builder server

2012-06-19 Thread John Dickinson
It looks like Florian (at Rackspace) is working on that blueprint. He just assigned it to himself. I'm happy to hear that you have some extra devs for swift work. I'd love to help coordinate some swift goals with you. Off the top of my head, here are a few things that could be worked on: 1)

Re: [Openstack] [Swift] Interested in implementing swift ring builder server

2012-06-19 Thread Florian Hines
I just need to clean it up at this point (mainly the rebalance). Since the rebalance (i.e. swift-ring-builder rebalance) can take minutes to complete when you have lots of devices I need to move it off to a background task. -- Florian Hines | @pandemicsyn http://about.me/pandemicsyn On

Re: [Openstack] [Swift] Interested in implementing swift ring builder server

2012-06-19 Thread Samuel Merritt
On 6/19/12 12:13 PM, John Dickinson wrote: It looks like Florian (at Rackspace) is working on that blueprint. He just assigned it to himself. I'm happy to hear that you have some extra devs for swift work. I'd love to help coordinate some swift goals with you. Off the top of my head, here

[Openstack] [Swift] Interested in implementing swift ring builder server

2012-06-18 Thread Mark Gius
Hello Swifters, I've got some interns working with me this summer and I had a notion that they might take a stab at the swift ring builder server blueprint that's been sitting around for a while ( https://blueprints.launchpad.net/swift/+spec/ring-builder-server). As a first step I figured that