Re: [openstack-dev] [all] [tc] "No Open Core" in 2016

2016-02-17 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 02/05/2016 07:17 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote: > So, is Poppy "open core"? I think it's a simple answer: no, Poppy is not open core. Poppy is not open core... Is Linux Open Core because you have to buy a processor and ram to run it? Or is Firefox open core because I have to buy service from a

Re: [openstack-dev] [trove][neutron][cinder][swift][ceilometer][nova][keystone][sahara][glance][neutron-lbaas][imm] stylistic changes to code, how do we handle them?

2016-01-12 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 01/12/2016 06:13 AM, Amrith Kumar wrote: [...] > I did not exhaustively verify this but [...] A fair question to ask then is, why are you proposing these patches? > I created a quick poll to tally results oh no, not another survey! :) Sometimes I feel that survey-itis[1] is a consequence of

Re: [openstack-dev] Gerrit Upgrade 12/16

2015-12-01 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 12/01/2015 06:38 PM, Spencer Krum wrote: > There is a thread beginning here: > http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-October/076962.html > which covers what to expect from the new software. Nice! This is awesome: the new review panel lets you edit files on the web interface.

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][all] Tags, explain like I am five?

2015-07-15 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 07/15/2015 11:25 AM, Joshua Harlow wrote: So I've been following the TC work on tags, and have been slightly confused by the whole work, so I am wondering if I can get a 'explainlikeimfive' (borrowing from reddit terminology) edition of it. I'll try :) You need to think of tags as the

[openstack-dev] [all] Proper escalation venues for stuck reviews

2015-05-28 Thread Stefano Maffulli
First of all a reminder to everybody doing code reviews: Avoid sarcasm and jokes Those travel poorly across TCP/IP and don't translate well in different languages. Just don't use them. If you get a negative vote or comments you don't like/understand ask for more explanations. Offer a place and

Re: [openstack-dev] [cinder] Deadline For New Cinder Volume Drivers in Liberty

2015-05-13 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 05/13/2015 11:48 AM, Mike Perez wrote: The Cinder team has met today [1] to begin discussions on the deadline for new volume drivers in the Liberty release. The proposed deadline for volume drivers to be merged by is June 19th 2015 [...] Great to read this, thanks Mike. On a wider note,

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] cross project communication: periodic developer newsletter?

2015-05-04 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Thanks Joe for bringing this up. I have always tried to find topics worth being covered in the weekly newsletter. I assemble that newsletter thinking of developers and operators as the main targets, I'd like both audiences to have one place to look at weekly and skim rapidly to see if they missed

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Who is allowed to vote for TC candidates

2015-04-30 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Thu, 2015-04-30 at 12:26 +0200, Flavio Percoco wrote: I've seen the number of threads to discuss Ops topics increase in openstack-dev and the influence of Ops - even just points of views inherited from the feedback we've got - on reviews has gotten better as well. Fantastic, that has

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-29 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 12:59 +0300, Maish Saidel-Keesing wrote: Again my apologies for the incorrect format - since I am still not receiving the messages from this thread. let me know if you want me to investigate this further. Doug - evidently this is not working as it should. As Chris said

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-29 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 18:28 +0300, Maish Saidel-Keesing wrote: How about the fact that the definition of an ATC was changed [1] for a free Summit pass? [2] This was not a decision of the TC, it was a decision of the Foundation staff. The definition of ATC has *not* changed, that's embedded in

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-28 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Mon, 2015-04-27 at 17:00 -0400, Doug Hellmann wrote: I would have to go back and check, but I'm pretty sure the posts were highlighted in Stef's community newsletter email. They were, in fact. But I know as a fact that even if people many love the newsletter, I have the impression that few

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Question for the TC candidates

2015-04-28 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Tue, 2015-04-28 at 16:30 +0100, Chris Dent wrote: What's important to avoid is the blog postings being only reporting of conclusions. They also need to be invitations to participate in the discussions. Yes, the mailing list, gerrit and meeting logs have some of the ongoing discussions but

[openstack-dev] [metrics] what answers do you expect from counting comments? (was Re: Please stop reviewing code while asking questions)

2015-04-24 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 15:02 +, Amrith Kumar wrote: I would support changes to both reviewstats and stackalytics to do the following. 1. recognizes and gives credit to '0' comments 2. identifies recheck, reverify and similar directives to the CI system and flag them appropriately,

Re: [openstack-dev] Regarding finding Mentors

2015-03-31 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 19:58 +0530, Ganesh R wrote: I am a newbie to OpenStack, very interested in contributing to OpenStack development. Welcome. Jeremy provided some useful suggestions. Just last week I added to how to contribute page the links to mentors page:

[openstack-dev] Find your discount code for Vancouver and register *now*

2015-03-30 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Folks, If you have received your discount code to OpenStack summit Vancouver, stop whatever you're doing and register *now* Admission prices go up to $900 tomorrow and you'll have to pay the difference. *There will be absolutely no exceptions*. If you're in doubt if you

[openstack-dev] Beyond IRC (was Re: Cinder Third-Party CI: what next?)

2015-03-24 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 19:01 +, Rochelle Grober wrote: So, how do we get timely first core review of patches in areas of the world where Core presence in IRC is slim to none? I think that most core reviewers use bouncers, so notifying them in the channel would probably raise a notification

[openstack-dev] Cinder Third-Party CI: what next? (was Re: [cinder] Request exemption for removal of NetApp FC drivers (no voting CI))

2015-03-23 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 11:43 -0700, Mike Perez wrote: We've been talking about CI's for a year. We started talking about CI deadlines in August. If you post a driver for Kilo, it was communicated that you're required to have a CI by the end of Kilo [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. This should've

Re: [openstack-dev] Cinder Third-Party CI: what next?

2015-03-23 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 16:23 -0400, Anita Kuno wrote: Some folks just will not respect other people's time. To pretend otherwise is a huge dis-service to folks trying their hardest to support those worthy of the support. This may be true in general but I have yet to be convinced that this is

Re: [openstack-dev] Avoiding regression in project governance

2015-03-11 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Tue, 2015-03-10 at 15:23 -0700, James E. Blair wrote: The holy grail of this system would be the suitable for production deployment tag, but no one has figured out how to define it yet. Are crazy ideas welcome in this phase? I start with 2 below: Preface: an idea circulates about visually

Re: [openstack-dev] Avoiding regression in project governance

2015-03-11 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 17:59 -0500, Ed Leafe wrote: The longer we try to be both sides of this process, the longer we will continue to have these back-and-forths about stability vs. innovation. If I understand correctly your model, it works only for users/operators who decide to rely on a vendor

Re: [openstack-dev] [cinder]difference between spec merged and BP approval

2015-03-10 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Hi David, On Sat, 2015-03-07 at 02:22 +, Chen, Wei D wrote: I thought the feature should be approved as long as the SPEC[1] is merged, but it seems I am wrong from the beginning[2], both of them (SPEC merged and BP approval[4][5]) is necessary and mandatory for getting some effective

Re: [openstack-dev] [devstack]Specific Juno version

2015-03-04 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 17:42 +0200, Eduard Matei wrote: Is there a way to specify the Juno version to be installed using devstack. Let's please reserve this list for discussions about the *future* of OpenStack development, not questions about using its tools. Please, everybody, help us stay

Re: [openstack-dev] Gerrit tooling improvements

2015-03-03 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 17:10 +0200, Duncan Thomas wrote: I feel the need to abandon changes that seem abandoned I think there is an agreement that there should be a way to have a clean view of changesets that are being actively worked on, changes where the owner is responding to comments, working

Re: [openstack-dev] auto-abandon changesets considered harmful (was Re: [stable][all] Revisiting the 6 month release cycle [metrics])

2015-03-02 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 13:35 -0800, Clay Gerrard wrote: I think Tom's suggested help us help you is a great pre-abandon warning. In swift as often as not the last message ended with something like you can catch me on freenode in #openstack-swift if you have any questions Good, this thread

Re: [openstack-dev] auto-abandon changesets considered harmful

2015-03-02 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 12:00 -0700, Doug Wiegley wrote: Why do you feel the need to keep them? Do your regularly look at older patches? Do you know anyone that does? I don't think that's the point. The point is to try improving contributor's life by providing them one last useful comment

Re: [openstack-dev] [stable][all] Revisiting the 6 month release cycle [metrics]

2015-02-27 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 16:44 -0800, James E. Blair wrote: It is good to recognize the impact of this, however, I would suggest that if having open changes that are not actively being worked is a problem for statistics, I don't think it's a problem for the statistics per se. The reports are only

[openstack-dev] auto-abandon changesets considered harmful (was Re: [stable][all] Revisiting the 6 month release cycle [metrics])

2015-02-27 Thread Stefano Maffulli
I'm not expressing myself cleary enough. I don't advocate for the removal of anything because I like pretty charts. I'm changing the subject to be even more clear. On Fri, 2015-02-27 at 13:26 -0800, James E. Blair wrote: I am asking you to please independently remove changes that you don't

Re: [openstack-dev] [stable][all] Revisiting the 6 month release cycle [metrics]

2015-02-26 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 15:58 -0600, Kevin L. Mitchell wrote: One thing that comes to mind is that there are a lot of reviews that appear to have been abandoned; I just cleared several from the novaclient review queue (or commented on them to see if they were still alive). I also know of a few

Re: [openstack-dev] [stable][all] Revisiting the 6 month release cycle [metrics]

2015-02-26 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 14:18 -0600, Anne Gentle wrote: Do the features listed in the Release Notes each have appropriate documentation? So far we just link to the specifications for nova, for example. [1] So to me, it could be a focus on the specification acceptance means less time/energy for

Re: [openstack-dev] [stable][all] Revisiting the 6 month release cycle [metrics]

2015-02-26 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 21:15 +, Ian Cordasco wrote: I read it the same was as Doug. I don’t think Jeremy was trying to imply your reviews would move through more quickly if you reviewed other people’s work. Just that, as with most open source projects, there’s always at least 2 distinct

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] creating a unified developer reference manual

2015-02-26 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 14:54 -0500, Doug Hellmann wrote: 1. Should we have a unified developer guide for the project? Yes. Absolutely. Yes. 2. Where should it live and how should we manage it? I think the natural destination for it would be the URL http://docs.openstack.org/developer (which

[openstack-dev] Call for mentors - Upstream Training, Google Summer of Code, Outreachy (AKA OPW) [all]

2015-02-19 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Hello folks we have a bunch of upcoming initiatives to help out new contributors to OpenStack and we need mentors willing to help newcomers go from zero to (at least) one merged patch. OpenStack has always been a welcoming community despite being complex to navigate for new contributors. If you

[openstack-dev] The root-cause for IRC private channels (was Re: [all][tc] Lets keep our community open, lets fight for it)

2015-02-17 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Changing the subject since Flavio's call for openness was broader than just private IRC channels. On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 10:37 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: If cases of bad community behaviour, such as use of passwd protected IRC channels, are always primarily dealt with via further private

Re: [openstack-dev] Summit Voting and ATC emails?

2015-02-16 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Mon, 2015-02-16 at 09:44 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: Why did we change the rules on summit passes in this way ? Because there is always a balance to strike between open participation and effective conversations, while the balance point keeps changing. In Paris we've noticed a fairly

Re: [openstack-dev] Summit Voting and ATC emails?

2015-02-16 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Sat, 2015-02-14 at 21:11 -0500, Nick Chase wrote: Does anybody know if a) ATC emails have started to go out yet, and b) when proposal voting will start? Voting started: http://www.openstack.org/vote-vancouver Hurry, voting closes at 5pm CT on Monday, February 23. Continue to visit

Re: [openstack-dev] Summit Voting and ATC emails?

2015-02-15 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Sun, 2015-02-15 at 14:34 +, Jeremy Stanley wrote: Also a reminder, you need to be the owner of a change in Gerrit which merged on or after October 16, 2014 (or have an unexpired entry in the extra-atcs file within the governance repo) to be in the list of people who automatically get

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][tc] Lets keep our community open, lets fight for it

2015-02-13 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Thu, 2015-02-12 at 16:01 +, Amrith Kumar wrote: How is a private IRC channel any different from a culture of private discussions? Having a chat over lunch, in the hallway, on the telephone, etc., I will articulate again why I think that a group of leaders of OpenStack *should not*

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][tc] Lets keep our community open, lets fight for it

2015-02-12 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Thu, 2015-02-12 at 10:37 +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote: Right. You can't prevent occasional private discussions and pings, and you shouldn't. It's when you encourage and officialize them (by for example creating a channel for them) that things start to go bad. Yes, that's very bad. Private

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][tc] Lets keep our community open, lets fight for it

2015-02-12 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Thu, 2015-02-12 at 10:35 +, Kuvaja, Erno wrote: I'm not attacking against having summits, I think the face to face time is incredibly valuable for all kind of things. My point was to bring up general flaw of the flow between all inclusive decision making vs. decided in summit session.

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][tc] Lets keep our community open, lets fight for it

2015-02-11 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Wed, 2015-02-11 at 09:32 -0500, Sean Dague wrote: Definitely true, to each his/her own. I still consider it unfortunate. I've also heard core developers state that they stopped reading the mailing list months ago. Which I also find unfortunate. That's terrible: do you know why they don't

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][tc] Lets keep our community open, lets fight for it

2015-02-11 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Wed, 2015-02-11 at 10:55 +0100, Flavio Percoco wrote: This email is dedicated to the openness of our community/project. It's good to have a reminder every now and then. Thank you Flavio for caring enough to notice bad patterns and for raising a flag. ## Keep discussions open I don't

Re: [openstack-dev] EOL and Stable Contributions (was Juno is flubber at the gate) [metrics]

2015-02-10 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Tue, 2015-02-10 at 15:20 +, Kevin Bringard (kevinbri) wrote: I've been talking with a few people about this very thing lately, and I think much of it is caused by what appears to be our actively discouraging people from working on it. Most notably, ATC is only being given to folks

Re: [openstack-dev] [horizon][keystone] SSO)

2015-02-09 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Mon, 2015-02-09 at 13:32 +0400, Anton Zemlyanov wrote: 2) There is no such a thing as OpenStack ID. Should we use Launchpad? Facebook login? Twitter? Actually, there is: https://openstackid.org :) It supports OpenID and OAuth, the code is on

Re: [openstack-dev] The API WG mission statement

2015-02-02 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Fri, 2015-01-30 at 23:05 +, Everett Toews wrote: To converge the OpenStack APIs to a consistent and pragmatic RESTful design by creating guidelines that the projects should follow. The intent is not to create backwards incompatible changes in existing APIs, but to have new APIs and

Re: [openstack-dev] [OpenStack Foundation] Finding people to work on the EC2 API in Nova

2015-01-30 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 16:01 -0800, Michael Still wrote: However, we got here because no one is maintaining the code in Nova for the EC2 API. This is despite repeated calls over the last 18 months (at least). I'd love to get to the root cause before we jump to look for solutions. The story we

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] All rights reserved V.S. Apache license

2015-01-18 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Sat, 2015-01-17 at 16:07 -0500, Monty Taylor wrote: It's actually a set of words that is no longer necessary as of the year 2000. It's not communicating anything about a granted license, which is what the Apache License does - it's actually just asserting that the original copyright holder

[openstack-dev] Why all OpenStack Foundation Individual Members should vote now [all]

2015-01-14 Thread Stefano Maffulli
HOW TO VOTE: If you are an eligible voter[1], you should have received an email with the subject “OpenStack Foundation – 2015 Individual Director Election” from secret...@openstack.org. This email includes your unique voting link. If you did not receive an email, please contact

[openstack-dev] openstack-dev topics now work correctly

2015-01-09 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Dear all, if you've tried the topics on this mailing list and haven't received emails, well... we had a problem on our side: the topics were not setup correctly. Luigi Toscano helped isolate the problem and point at the solution[1]. He noticed that only the QA topic was working and that's the

Re: [openstack-dev] The scope of OpenStack wiki [all]

2015-01-09 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 10:35 +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote: One of the issues here is that the wiki also serves as a default starting page for all things not on www.openstack.org (its main page is a list of relevant links). So at the same time we are moving authoritative content out of the wiki

Re: [openstack-dev] The scope of OpenStack wiki [all]

2015-01-08 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 12:52 -0800, Sean Roberts wrote: Thanks for bringing this up Stef. I have found while introducing OpenStack fundamentals in the user groups, what seems logical to us, the fully OpenStack immersed, is confusing to newcomers. Yeah, I'm diving more in the wiki in

[openstack-dev] The scope of OpenStack wiki [all]

2015-01-08 Thread Stefano Maffulli
hello folks, TL;DR Many wiki pages and categories are maintained elsewhere and to avoid confusion to newcomers we need to agree on a new scope for the wiki. A suggestion below is to limit its scope to content that doesn't need/want peer-review and is not hosted elsewhere (no duplication). The

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] Core/Vendor code decomposition

2014-12-15 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 12/09/2014 04:11 PM, by wrote: [vad] how about the documentation in this case?... bcos it needs some place to document (a short desc and a link to vendor page) or list these kind of out-of-tree plugins/drivers... just to make the user aware of the availability of such plugins/driers which

Re: [openstack-dev] [OpenStack-Infra] [third-party]Time for Additional Meeting for third-party

2014-12-15 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 12/05/2014 07:08 AM, Kurt Taylor wrote: 1. Meeting content: Having 2 meetings per week is more than is needed at this stage of the working group. There just isn't enough meeting content to justify having two meetings every week. I'd like to discuss this further: the stated objectives of the

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] Spec reviews this week by the neutron-drivers team

2014-12-12 Thread Stefano Maffulli
I have adapted to Neutron the specs review dashboard prepared by Joe Gordon for Nova. Check it out below. Reminder: the deadline to approve kilo specs is this coming Monday, Dec 15.

Re: [openstack-dev] People of OpenStack (and their IRC nicks)

2014-12-10 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 12/10/2014 02:30 AM, Matthew Gilliard wrote: So, are we agreed that http://www.openstack.org/community/members/ is the authoritative place for IRC lookups? In which case, I'll take the old content out of https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/People and leave a message directing people where to

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Kilo specs review day

2014-12-10 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 12/10/2014 01:41 PM, Michael Still wrote: at the design summit we said that we would not approve specifications after the kilo-1 deadline, which is 18 December. Unfortunately, we’ve had a lot of specifications proposed this cycle (166 to my count), and haven’t kept up with the review

Re: [openstack-dev] People of OpenStack (and their IRC nicks)

2014-12-09 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 12/09/2014 06:04 AM, Jeremy Stanley wrote: We already have a solution for tracking the contributor-IRC mapping--add it to your Foundation Member Profile. For example, mine is in there already: http://www.openstack.org/community/members/profile/5479 I recommend updating the

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] Changes to the core team

2014-12-04 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 12/04/2014 09:24 AM, Anita Kuno wrote: I think we move into very dangerous territory if we are equating a core review Gerrit permission (it is just a Gerrit permission, if it is perceived as anything other than that that is a perception we have created ourselves) with value as an OpenStack

Re: [openstack-dev] Board election

2014-11-30 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 11/30/2014 06:44 AM, Gary Kotton wrote: When I log into the site I am unable to nominate people. Any ideas? I get: *Your account credentials do not allow you to nominate candidates.**”* That means that the account you're using is not the account of an Individual Member of OpenStack

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] A more dynamic wiki, introducing Categories

2014-11-15 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 11/14/2014 09:11 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote: Categories emerge automatically as you tag pages into them. No separate category creation step is required. True although incomplete. Categories are just pages, like almost anything in mediawiki, so if you add text [[Category: New_Category]] in a

[openstack-dev] [all] A more dynamic wiki, introducing Categories

2014-11-14 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Hello folks in the past months Shari and I have implemented more chunks of the taxonomy developed for us by Katherine Cranford (a volunteer expert). Using categories in the wiki pages can help us create dynamic pages and keep information more visible, well organized and discoverable. For

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] A more dynamic wiki, introducing Categories

2014-11-14 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 11/14/2014 02:50 PM, Thierry Carrez wrote: In this precise example, I feel like the dynamic page is much less usable than the static page, due to the deep hierarchy. Got it. The current taxonomy is trying to map precisely the hierarchy of Program-Projects-Teams therefore it keeps the Nova

Re: [openstack-dev] TC election by the numbers

2014-11-01 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 11/01/2014 04:31 PM, Eoghan Glynn wrote: So, just to round out this thread, the key questions are: * whether a low declining turnout is a real problem I'd like to point out that there 580 'regular' contributors at the moment[1], these are the authors of 95% of the OpenStack code. 506

Re: [openstack-dev] [Infra][all] Synchronizing local Git and Gerrit repositories

2014-10-29 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 10/29/2014 07:02 AM, Ondrej Wisniewski wrote: If I understand correctly, we cannot use the OpenStack community Git servers as our central Git repository since developers cannot push to them. And we don't want to go through Gerrit and the code review procedure just to share a bit of code

Re: [openstack-dev] FreeBSD host support

2014-10-27 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 10/27/2014 08:51 AM, Drew Fisher wrote: If devstack itself (not CI, but devstack) is a hard requirement for integration we need to probably start up a different thread on what the best way for other OSes like FreeBSD and Solaris to work around this issue. What should we be looking at? A

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] How can we get more feedback from users?

2014-10-24 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Hi Angus, quite a noble intent, one that requires lots of attempts like this you have started. On 10/23/2014 09:32 PM, Angus Salkeld wrote: I have felt some grumblings about usability issues with Heat templates/client/etc.. and wanted a way that users could come and give us feedback easily

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] How can we get more feedback from users?

2014-10-24 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 10/23/2014 11:16 PM, Angus Salkeld wrote: Thanks for those pointers, we very interested in feedback from operators, but in this case I am talking more about end users not operators (people that actually use our API). Great! There is a working group being formed also for that. I would

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][doc] project testing interface

2014-10-24 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 10/24/2014 03:03 PM, Anne Gentle wrote: The git link is the reference, and we're working on publishing those, just have to get a URL/home sorted out. In the meantime, yes, you can update the wiki page. Why not delete the wiki altogether? I think stale content on the wiki is damaging us

Re: [openstack-dev] [api] API Workgroup git repository

2014-10-22 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Hi Chris On 10/21/2014 11:08 PM, Christopher Yeoh wrote: The API Workgroup git repository has been setup and you can access it here. Cool, adding it to the repos to watch. There is some content there though not all the proposed guidelines from the wiki page are in yet:

Re: [openstack-dev] [Openstack-docs] Contributing to docs without Docbook -- YES you can!

2014-10-03 Thread Stefano Maffulli
hi Nick, On 09/29/2014 02:06 PM, Nicholas Chase wrote: Because we know that the networking documentation needs particular attention, we're starting there. We have a Networking Guide, from which we will ultimately pull information to improve the networking section of the admin guide. I

[openstack-dev] Of wiki and contributors docs (was Re: [Nova] [All] API standards working group)

2014-09-25 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 09/24/2014 09:09 PM, Anne Gentle wrote: I think the wiki is a great place to get ideas out while we look for a cross-project specs workflow in the meantime. The wiki is a great place to store things temporarily until they mature and find a stable home :) Speaking of wiki, those of you that

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] [All] API standards working group

2014-09-24 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 09/24/2014 10:05 AM, Jay Pipes wrote: Whatever it ends up being, it needs to have some teeth to it. Otherwise, we're going to end up in the exact same place we're in now, where each project does something slightly different. +1 I think getting started and produce some material to discuss

Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Set WIP for stale patches?

2014-09-22 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Fri 19 Sep 2014 09:25:10 AM PDT, Jeremy Stanley wrote: Here we'll just have to agree to disagree. I think core reviewers hiding behind an automated process so that they don't have to confront contributors about stalled/inadequate changes is inherently less friendly. Clearly you feel that

Re: [openstack-dev] [metrics] New version of the Activity Board

2014-09-19 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Thank you Daniel, great job. On 09/17/2014 09:03 AM, Daniel Izquierdo wrote: * Further work = - Add Juno release information It's coming :) - Allow to have projects navigation per release This is interesting - Add Askbot data per release This is really not needed, don't spend

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] OpenStack bootstrapping hour - Friday Sept 19th - 3pm EST

2014-09-15 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 09/15/2014 03:56 PM, Sean Dague wrote: A few of us have decided to pull together a regular (cadence to be determined) video series taking on deep dives inside of OpenStack, looking at code, explaining why things work that way, and fielding questions from anyone interested. For lack of a

Re: [openstack-dev] [Zaqar] Comments on the concerns arose during the TC meeting

2014-09-10 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 09/05/2014 12:36 PM, Tim Bell wrote: How can the average deployer know whether a stackforge is a. An early prototype which has completed (such as some of the early LBaaS packages) b. A project which has lost its initial steam and further investment is not foreseen c.

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][neutron][cinder] Averting the Nova crisis by splitting out virt drivers

2014-09-10 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 09/10/2014 02:27 AM, Sylvain Bauza wrote: Well, both proposals can be done : we can create subteams and the Subteam-Approval Gerrit label right know before Kilo, and we could split the virt repos by later once the interfaces and prereqs are done. That's what I mean in fact: create sub team

Re: [openstack-dev] [Zaqar] Comments on the concerns arose during the TC meeting

2014-09-10 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 09/10/2014 12:56 PM, Monty Taylor wrote: I reject soundly and fundamentally the idea that Open Source projects NEED a commercial ecosystem to provide solid quality software. That's not what I said. I said that assuring the quality of code on a public repository is not necessarily something

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][neutron][cinder] Averting the Nova crisis by splitting out virt drivers

2014-09-09 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 09/09/2014 06:55 AM, James Bottomley wrote: CLAs are a well known and documented barrier to casual contributions I'm not convinced about this statement, at all. And since I think it's secondary to what we're discussing, I'll leave it as is and go on. I've done both ... I do prefer the patch

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][neutron][cinder] Averting the Nova crisis by splitting out virt drivers

2014-09-08 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 09/05/2014 07:07 PM, James Bottomley wrote: Actually, I don't think this analysis is accurate. Some people are simply interested in small aspects of a project. It's the scratch your own itch part of open source. The thing which makes itch scratchers not lone wolfs is the desire to go the

Re: [openstack-dev] [Manila]

2014-09-05 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Hi Jyoti This is the wrong email list: we use openstack-dev only to discuss future development of OpenStack project. Use the General mailing list or the one for Operators (check http://lists.openstack.org). Alternatively search for answers (and if you don't find any, ask questions) on

[openstack-dev] DefCore Community Meetings 9/10 9/11 AGENDA (Lighthouse.7)

2014-09-05 Thread Stefano Maffulli
The DefCore project is moving forward and needs more and more eyes on it. The next meetings are on Sept 9 and 10, with the same agenda to facilitate global access. I'm sharing the details below. All members of OpenStack ecosystem should follow this process closely as it is going to define what an

Re: [openstack-dev] [OpenStack-Infra] [third-party] [infra] New mailing lists for third party announcements and account requests

2014-09-02 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Fri 29 Aug 2014 03:03:34 PM PDT, James E. Blair wrote: It's the best way we have right now, until we have time to make it more self-service. We received one third-party CI request in 2 years, then we received 88 more in 6 months. Our current process is built around the old conditions. I

[openstack-dev] znc as a service (was Re: [nova] Is the BP approval process broken?)

2014-09-02 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 08/29/2014 11:17 AM, John Garbutt wrote: After moving to use ZNC, I find IRC works much better for me now, but I am still learning really. There! this sentence has two very important points worth highlighting: 1- when people say IRC they mean IRC + a hack to overcome its limitation 2-

Re: [openstack-dev] [OpenStack-Infra] [third-party] [infra] New mailing lists for third party announcements and account requests

2014-08-29 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Fri 29 Aug 2014 12:47:00 PM PDT, Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote: Third-party-request This list is the new place to request the creation or modification of your third party account. Note that old requests sent to the openstack-infra mailing list don't need to be resubmitted, they are already in

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron][lbaas][octavia]

2014-08-28 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 08/28/2014 03:04 PM, Susanne Balle wrote: Just for us to learn about the incubator status, here are some of the info on incubation: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Approved/Incubation https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/NewProjects These are not the correct documents

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] Incubator concerns from packaging perspective

2014-08-27 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 08/21/2014 03:12 AM, Ihar Hrachyshka wrote: I wonder where discussion around the proposal is running. Is it public? Yes, it's public, and this thread is part of it. Look at the dates of the wiki: this is a recent proposal (first appearance Aug 11), came out to address the GBP issue, quickly

Re: [openstack-dev] What does NASA not using OpenStack mean to OS's future

2014-08-25 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 08/25/2014 02:36 PM, Joshua Harlow wrote: So to see if we can get something useful from this thread. not on this mailing list. Move it somewhere else: this thread is off topic here. /stef ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] [ptls] The Czar system, or how to scale PTLs

2014-08-25 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Mon 25 Aug 2014 03:38:18 PM CDT, Zane Bitter wrote: I'd say we've done fairly well, but I would attribute that at least in part to the fact that we've treated the PTL as effectively the temporary release management contact more than the guy who will resolve disputes for us. In other words,

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] [ptls] The Czar system, or how to scale PTLs

2014-08-25 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 08/22/2014 08:19 PM, John Dickinson wrote: I think Anne makes some excellent points about the pattern being proposed being unlikely to be commonly implemented across all the programs (or, at best, very difficult). Let's not try to formalize another best practice that works many times and

Re: [openstack-dev] [Octavia] IRC meetings

2014-08-21 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 08/21/2014 10:14 AM, Doug Wiegley wrote: We made the voice/IRC decision in the very format that favors voice. So in the interest of putting the discussion to bed, voice your opinions here in a non-voice way: I was about to voice (ha!) my opinion there but I stopped because I don't think we

Re: [openstack-dev] New feature on Nova

2014-08-21 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 08/21/2014 08:00 AM, thomas.pessi...@orange.com wrote: Sorry if I am not on the right mailing list. I would like to get some information. No problem, this is the correct mailing list as this message is about discussing the future of an openstack component. I would like to know if I am a

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] The future of the integrated release

2014-08-21 Thread Stefano Maffulli
I think we can't throw Ceilometer and Triple-O in the same discussion: they're two separate issues IMHO, with different root causes and therefore different solutions. On 08/21/2014 06:27 AM, Jay Pipes wrote: The point I've been making is that by the TC continuing to bless only the Ceilometer

Re: [openstack-dev] generate Windows exe

2014-08-20 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Hi Szepe, On Wed 20 Aug 2014 11:33:47 AM PDT, Szépe Viktor wrote: Thank you for your answer. That workflow seems a huge job for me. I leave this patch up to you. thanks for sending this fix. You've stumbled upon one of the known issues of OpenStack's way to deal with small patches like

Re: [openstack-dev] [Octavia] Minutes from 8/13/2014 meeting

2014-08-19 Thread Stefano Maffulli
Thanks for the summary Trevor. On 08/18/2014 01:25 PM, Trevor Vardeman wrote: 1) Discuss future of Octavia in light of Neutron-incubator project proposal. a) There are many problems with Neutron-Incubator as currently described Let's be specific, enumerate the problems and address them,

[openstack-dev] Network/Incubator proposal (was Re: [Octavia] Minutes from 8/13/2014 meeting)

2014-08-19 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 08/19/2014 08:39 AM, Eichberger, German wrote: Just to be clear: We all think the incubator is a great idea and if some things are ironed out will be a good way to onboard new projects to Neutron. What bothers me is the timing. Without warning we were put in an incubator in the span of like

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] The future of the integrated release

2014-08-19 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 08/19/2014 07:37 AM, Jay Pipes wrote: All of these projects should be able to live in the Program, in the openstack/ code namespace, for as long as the project is actively developed, and let the contributor communities in these competing projects *naturally* work to do any of the following:

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] The future of the integrated release

2014-08-13 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 08/13/2014 07:33 AM, Ian Wells wrote: I have no great answer to this, but is there a way - perhaps via team sponsorship from cores to ensure that the general direction is right, and cloned repositories for purpose-specific changes, as one example - that we can get an audience of people to

Re: [openstack-dev] Fwd: FW: [Neutron] Group Based Policy and the way forward

2014-08-13 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 08/12/2014 06:46 PM, Wuhongning wrote: I couldn't have been at the IRC meeting for the time difference, are there any conclusion for this topic, or is it still open? I, the PTL, some core reviewers and many in the GBP team are actively working on a proposal to send to the list for quick

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] The future of the integrated release

2014-08-08 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 08/08/2014 02:37 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: I agree with Eoghan here. The main goal of an agile/lean system is to maximize a development team productivity. The main goal of Open source project management is not to maximize productivity. It’s to maximize contributions. I wrote about that a

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