<div dir="ltr"><div>Terrific idea! So what happens with the feedback you receive?<br></div><div>I am, of course, most interested in issues that might help us improve<br>the documentation, of course, but it's a general question about how<br>this information flows to the Product Engineering team.<br><br>meg<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:46 PM, Tim Bell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Tim.Bell@cern.ch" target="_blank">Tim.Bell@cern.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">There are two groups which may be relevant regarding ‘consumers’ of Heat<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Application eco system working group at
<a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Application_Ecosystem_Working_Group" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Application_Ecosystem_Working_Group</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">API working group at
<a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/API_Working_Group" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/API_Working_Group</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">There are some discussions planned as part of the breakouts in the Kilo design summit (<a href="http://kilodesignsummit.sched.org/" target="_blank">http://kilodesignsummit.sched.org/</a>)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">So, there are frameworks in place and we would welcome volunteers to help advance these in a consistent way across the OpenStack programs.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> 24 October 2014 08:16<br>
<b>To:</b> Stefano Maffulli<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [openstack-dev] [all] How can we get more feedback from users?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Hi Angus,<br>
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quite a noble intent, one that requires lots of attempts like this you<br>
have started.<br>
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On 10/23/2014 09:32 PM, Angus Salkeld wrote:<br>
> I have felt some grumblings about usability issues with Heat<br>
> templates/client/etc..<br>
> and wanted a way that users could come and give us feedback easily (low<br>
> barrier). I started an etherpad<br>
> (<a href="https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/heat-useablity-improvements" target="_blank">https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/heat-useablity-improvements</a>) - the<br>
> first win is it is spelt wrong :-O<br>
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> We now have some great feedback there in a very short time, most of this<br>
> we should be able to solve.<br>
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> This lead me to think, "should OpenStack have a more general mechanism<br>
> for users to provide feedback". The idea is this is not for bugs or<br>
> support, but for users to express pain points, requests for features and<br>
> docs/howtos.<br>
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One place to start is to pay attention to what happens on the operators<br>
mailing list. Posting this message there would probably help since lots<br>
of users hang out there.<br>
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In Paris there will be another operators mini-summit, the fourth IIRC,<br>
one every 3 months more or less (I can't find the details at the moment,<br>
I assume they'll be published soon -- Ideas are being collected on<br>
<a href="https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/PAR-ops-meetup" target="_blank">https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/PAR-ops-meetup</a>).<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for those pointers, we very interested in feedback from operators, but<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Another effort to close this 'feedback loop' is the new working group<br>
temporarily named 'influencers' that will meet in Paris for the first<br>
time:<br>
<a href="https://openstacksummitnovember2014paris.sched.org/event/268a9853812c22ca8d0636b9d8f0c831" target="_blank">https://openstacksummitnovember2014paris.sched.org/event/268a9853812c22ca8d0636b9d8f0c831</a><br>
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It's great to see lots of efforts going in the same direction. Keep 'em<br>
coming.<br>
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/stef<br>
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