<div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you so much for getting this started Sean! <br><br>I have gotten a lot of feedback that people liked the on-boarding rooms, but I would be interested to know more about what people did so we can coordinate better next time. This round I left a lot of the decisions up to the different teams since this was a new type of session for the Summit so we could figure out what works best. <br><br></div><div>I started a resource collection here[1] to round up materials. I am trying to find a place to post them so that people that weren't able to attend to look at since we weren't able to get recordings in the room this time- definitely something to try to coordinate next round!<br> <br><br></div><div>Thanks again, <br><br></div><div>-Kendall (diablo_rojo)<br></div><div><br>[1] <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-May/116513.html">http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-May/116513.html</a> <br> <br></div><div><br><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 8:40 AM Sean Dague <<a href="mailto:sean@dague.net">sean@dague.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 05/19/2017 09:22 AM, Sean Dague wrote:<br>
> If you ran a room, please post the project, what you did in the room,<br>
> what you think worked, what you would have done differently. If you<br>
> attended a room you didn't run, please provide feedback about which one<br>
> it was, and what you thought worked / didn't work from the other side of<br>
> the table.<br>
<br>
Project: Nova<br>
Attendees: 25 - 30<br>
Notes: (this conflicted with Baremetal/VM platform part 1, may have<br>
impacted attendance)<br>
Etherpad: <a href="https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/BOS-forum-nova-project-onboarding" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/BOS-forum-nova-project-onboarding</a><br>
<br>
What we did:<br>
<br>
To get the room warmed up (it was the first post keynote session), we<br>
prepared a document which was an annotated flow of the logs of booting<br>
up a server with openstack client -<br>
<a href="https://github.com/sdague/nova-boot-flow/blob/master/flow.rst" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/sdague/nova-boot-flow/blob/master/flow.rst</a> - and<br>
talked through all of that, fielding questions along the way. That<br>
actually took about 45 minutes because 20 minutes in the room had warmed<br>
up and started asking a bunch of questions (especially around scheduling<br>
which always seems like a hot area).<br>
<br>
We used the back half of the session for just audience questions. Some<br>
of the more interesting ones were diving into what a context really is<br>
(that's a pretty core concept in multiple projects, but one we forget is<br>
new to people).<br>
<br>
We did an adhoc diagramming of the basic api.py -> rpcapi.py -><br>
manager.py pattern in the code that hits all the different daemons. And<br>
even looked at some of the directory structures on how this is organized.<br>
<br>
There was a good conversation towards the end on debug strategies. Most<br>
of us are print/log debuggers, but guru mediation was news to most folks<br>
in the room. Definitely clear that there is a need for a pdb guide for<br>
OpenStack (by someone that regularly uses it).<br>
<br>
There was also a good discussion around types of arguments in Nova<br>
function calls, and how much one can trust they know what a variable<br>
named "instance" really is.<br>
<br>
<br>
What worked:<br>
<br>
It was really good to have some interactive technical content pre canned<br>
to get the conversation going. Rooms start cold, and you need to get<br>
people interactive.<br>
<br>
Questions phase turned out really good. They also seemed pretty spread<br>
around the audience.<br>
<br>
<br>
Do differently next time:<br>
<br>
Recording would have been great.<br>
<br>
We did a poor job of fielding questions off the etherpad because my<br>
laptop was being used show flows or answers. Next time it would be good<br>
to have 2 computers up, one on the etherpad watching for questions from<br>
quieter people there, while we have other relevant answer material on<br>
the projector.<br>
<br>
<br>
-Sean<br>
<br>
--<br>
Sean Dague<br>
<a href="http://dague.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://dague.net</a><br>
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