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On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Eoghan Glynn <eglynn at redhat.com> wrote:

>
>
> > Let's have a detailed discussion about the technicalities of managing
> > the two codebases, issue tracking, task prioritization etc.
>
> Ok, so lets figure out how were going to do this.
>
> First question is how to approach managing the two codebases.
>
> My instinct to merge the Synaps code into the Ceilo git repo,
> re-packaging as ceilometer.synaps. Thoughts?
>
> Secondly, in terms of issue tracking, the number of bugs
> filed against https://launchpad.net/synaps is small, so we
> could easily do a manual migration to a single consolidated
> tracker under https://launchpad.net/ceilometer. Thoughts?
>
> Finally in terms of prioritizing tasks, here's my laundry
> list that I'm planning to translate to blueprints once the
> initial transitions are done. Any further input would be
> welcome.
>
>  - clean up the long & awkward dependency chain and allow
>    Synaps be sparked up optionally within devstack
>
>  - beef up test coverage, which is currently low and has a
>    strong functional as opposed to unittest orientation
>
>  - push the Cassandra usage behind a storage abstraction,
>    to allow for pluggable stores
>
>  - add a native API, alongside the AWS CloudWatch API
>    (capturing some of the novel aspects of Synaps,
>     e.g. the concept of overlapping eval periods)
>
>  - decouple metric ingestion and alarm evaluation from
>    storm (currently embedded in the storm bolts)
>
>  - support alternative non-storm (well, non-Java-oriented)
>    distributed computation frameworks
>
>  - switch to a periodic alarm threshold evaluation model
>    (as evaluation on metric ingestion is prone to
>     false positives when outliers report first)
>

Some of that sounds like it would be a good bit of work. How much of it do
you think should be done before the code is brought into the ceilometer
repository vs. after?

Doug


>
> Cheers,
> Eoghan
>
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