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

Alexandre Levine alevine at cloudscaling.com
Mon Feb 2 16:35:46 UTC 2015


Thank you Sean.

We'll be tons of EC2 Tempest tests for your attention shortly.
How would you prefer them? In several reviews, I believe. Not in one, right?

Best regards,
   Alex Levine

On 2/2/15 6:55 PM, Sean Dague wrote:
> On 02/02/2015 07:01 AM, Alexandre Levine wrote:
>> Michael,
>>
>> I'm rather new here, especially in regard to communication matters, so
>> I'd also be glad to understand how it's done and then I can drive it if
>> it's ok with everybody.
>> By saying EC2 sub team - who did you keep in mind? From my team 3
>> persons are involved.
>>
>>  From the technical point of view the transition plan could look somewhat
>> like this (sequence can be different):
>>
>> 1. Triage EC2 bugs and fix showstoppers in nova's EC2.
>> 2. Contribute Tempest tests for EC2 functionality and employ them
>> against nova's EC2.
>> 3. Write spec for required API to be exposed from nova so that we get
>> full info.
>> 4. Triage and fix all of the existing nova's EC2 bugs worth fixing.
>> 5. Set up Tempest testing of the stackforge/ec2 (if that's possible).
>> 6. Communicate and discover all of the existing questions and
>> problematic points for the switching from existing EC2 API to the new
>> one. Provide solutions or decisions about them.
>> 7. Do performance testing of the new stackforge/ec2 and provide fixes if
>> any bottlenecks come up.
>> 8. Have all of the above prepared for the Vancouver summit and discuss
>> the situation there.
>>
>> Michael, I am still wondering, who's going to be responsible for timely
>> reviews and approvals of the fixes and tests we're going to contribute
>> to nova? So far this is the biggest risk. Is there anyway to allow some
>> of us to participate in the process?
> I am happy to volunteer to shephard these reviews. I'll try to keep an
> eye on them, and if something is blocking please just ping me directly
> on IRC in #openstack-nova or bring them forward to the weekly Nova meeting.
>
> 	-Sean
>




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