<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>On 1 Sep 2015, at 23:15, Sylvain Bauza <<a href="mailto:sbauza@redhat.com">sbauza@redhat.com</a>> wrote:</div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Le 01/09/2015 22:31, Ildikó Váncsa a écrit :<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi,<br><br>I'm glad to see the interest and I also support the idea of using the IRC channel that is already set up for further communication. Should we aim for a meeting/discussion there around the end of this week or during next week?<br><br>@Nikolay, Sylvain: Thanks for support and bringing together a list of action items as very first steps.<br><br>@Pierre: You wrote that you are using Blazar. Are you using it as is with an older version of OpenStack or you have a modified version of the project/code?<br></blockquote>I'm actually really surprised to see<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.chameleoncloud.org/docs/user-guides/bare-metal-user-guide/">https://www.chameleoncloud.org/docs/user-guides/bare-metal-user-guide/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>which describes quite fine how to use Blazar/Climate either using the CLI or by Horizon.<br><br>The latter is actually not provided within the git tree, so I guess Chameleon added it downstream. That's fine, maybe something we could upstream if Pierre and his team are okay ?<br><br>-Sylvain</div></blockquote><br></div><div>We are using a modified version of Blazar (based on the latest master branch commit) with OpenStack Juno (RDO packaging).</div><div><br></div><div>The only really mandatory patch that we had to develop was for blazar-nova due to functions moving from oslo-incubator to oslo.i18n: <a href="https://github.com/ChameleonCloud/blazar-nova/commit/346627320e87c8e067db6e842935d243c9640e6e">https://github.com/ChameleonCloud/blazar-nova/commit/346627320e87c8e067db6e842935d243c9640e6e</a></div><div>On top of this we developed a number of patches, most of them to fix bugs that we discovered in Blazar, with a few to get specific features or behavior required for Chameleon.</div><div><br></div><div>We also used the code developed by Pablo (<a href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-June/038506.html">http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-June/038506.html</a>) to provide an Horizon dashboard for creating and managing leases.</div><div>We even developed a Gantt chart of physical node reservations, but this code reads data straight from the SQL database rather than using a new Blazar API, so it cannot be contributed as is.</div><div><br></div><div>We have always wanted to contribute back our improvements to Blazar and we are looking forward to it now that there is renewed interest from the community.</div><div>All our OpenStack code should already be available on GitHub at <a href="https://github.com/ChameleonCloud/">https://github.com/ChameleonCloud/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Pierre</div><div><br></div></body></html>