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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/15/2013 08:30 AM, Alexander
      Tivelkov wrote:<br>
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                  face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">During HK summit
                   we’ve been discussing an approach to implement app
                  catalog for Openstack. We’ve seen certain interest in
                  the topic and heard from few people that they are
                  working on similar concepts outside of community.</font></span></p>
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                  face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Apparently
                  Openstack is now mature enough to have a need for an
                  application catalog which will fulfil several needs of
                  cloud admins and users on platform level:</font></span></p>
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                  face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- an integration
                  point for applications and services running on top of
                  OS</font></span></p>
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                  face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- the level of
                  management of lifecycle of applications, distribution
                  channels and billing</font></span></p>
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                  face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- self-service
                  provisioning for applications</font></span></p>
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              <span
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                  face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Few weeks ago we
                  proposed to extend the mission of Murano to be an
                  Application Catalog for Openstack, simultaneously we
                  decided to contribute several parts of the project to
                  other OpenStack projects, mainly Heat and Mistral.</font></span></p>
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              <span
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                  face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Our intention is
                  to make the mission and scope of the project as lean
                  as possible, at the same time leveraging as much of
                  the existing Openstack services as possible.</font></span></p>
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              <span
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                  face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">As many others
                  we’re excited about Solum project and looking forward
                  to integrate with Solum and contribute there.</font></span></p>
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              <span
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                  face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Now the most
                  exciting part - we are looking for contributors! Use
                  cases, architecture, blueprints, code - anything would
                  be helpful.</font></span></p>
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              <span
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                  face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Right now is the
                  best time to start, as we are just started figuring
                  out definition of Application Catalog, getting the
                  requirements, considering use cases and design
                  concepts. </font></span></p>
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              <span
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                  face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The project from
                  day one is run on OpenStack infrastructure, following
                  all standard OpenStack processes and practices and
                  we’re really making an effort to make it very open.</font></span></p>
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              <span
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                  face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We believe that
                  this is an initiative which can bring a lot of value
                  to the community, let’s try to obtain synergy working
                  on this all together. The earlier you express your
                  interest explicitly, the more impact you’re going to
                  have on the roadmap.</font></span></p>
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              <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span
style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The
                  high-level overview of the proposal can be found at
                  our wiki: </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Murano/ApplicationCatalog"
                  style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span
style="font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Murano/ApplicationCatalog</span></a><span
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                </span></font></p>
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                  face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This is a
                  work-in-progress document, and it is going to be
                  changed - so your feedback is very welcome right now.</font></span></p>
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              <span
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                  face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We’ve created
                  several etherpads to collaborate and gather the
                  requirements together. Feel free to add anything which
                  seems important for you:</font></span></p>
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                  href="https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/AppCatalogUI"
                  style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span
style="font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/AppCatalogUI</span></a><span
style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">
                  - requirements for UI</span></font></p>
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                face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a
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                  href="https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/AppCatalogRoadmap"
                  style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span
style="font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/AppCatalogRoadmap</span></a><span
style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">
                  - roadmap with features and milestones</span></font></p>
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                  href="https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/AppCatalogUseCases"
                  style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span
style="font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/AppCatalogUseCases</span></a><span
style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">
                  - some use-cases, giving examples of how different
                  users interact with the Application Catalog</span></font></p>
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              <span
style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font
                  face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Feel free to add
                  anything to these etherpads - and share any ideas you
                  might have with all the community. </font></span></p>
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style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font
                  face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Looking forward
                  for your participation!</font></span></p>
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    Can you outline what might need to be added to Heat to support
    Murano?<br>
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