<div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you very much, Sean!! Your reply is constructive.</div><div>Sofi<br></div><h3 class="gmail-iw"><br></h3></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 6:20 PM Sean Mooney <<a href="mailto:smooney@redhat.com">smooney@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="text-align:left;direction:ltr"><div>On Thu, 2019-02-21 at 01:36 +0500, Ramsha Azeemi wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:2px solid rgb(114,159,207);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thanks, I'll check them out. <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>for what its worth i personally used windows as my devepmetn clinet</div><div>system and connect to a remove linux system to run openstack on for most of the</div><div>time i contributed to openstack.</div><div><br></div><div>one thing i found useful was to use cygwin on windows to provide a linux</div><div>like environment. that allow my to git clone the repos and in many case was</div><div>enought to allow me to run unitests, pep8 style check or docs envs locally on windows.</div><div><br></div><div>the linux subsystem for windows will similarly help.</div><div><br></div><div>openstack does use a number of c module that may or may not be available on windows</div><div>python distobutions so core service like nova often do not work in there entirity but</div><div>you will find that most of the command line client or webservices, espcally any of the web</div><div>service that can run under wsgi will actully work on windows.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>with all of that said if you want to deploy and run openstack with devstack or other tools</div><div>you will be best served by spingnin up a linux vm with hyperv or virtual box and sshing into that</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>in our upstream ci we typically use 8G vms with ~8 cpus and 50G of storage but you can actully reduce the</div><div>diskspace down to about 20G and its typeicaly fine for development. the extra storage in the ci is for logs and</div><div>to allow testing ot the storage services of opesntack.</div><div><br></div><div>anyway the point i wanted to make is often you can make small change to openstack on windows </div><div>without needing linux but your milage may vary and most development will typically be eaiser on linux</div><div>but its not required for everything.</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:2px solid rgb(114,159,207);padding-left:1ex"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 1:02 AM Sofia Enriquez <<a href="mailto:senrique@redhat.com" target="_blank">senrique@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:2px solid rgb(114,159,207);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Welcome, Ramsha!</div><div><br></div><div>You always can use a Virtual Machine (VM) on Windows. I personally use Fedora, but you can use any distribution.</div><div><ol><li>First, I recommend you to read about Devstack [1] (It's a series of scripts used to quickly bring up a complete OpenStack environment)</li><li>Try to follow the guide [1] and install Devstack on the host machine.</li><li>Read the [2] developers guide.</li></ol><div>Maybe this guide is old but could help you [3].</div><div> <br></div><div>Let me know if you have any questions!</div><div>Sofi<br></div></div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://docs.openstack.org/devstack/latest/" target="_blank">https://docs.openstack.org/devstack/latest/</a></div><div>[2] <a href="https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html" target="_blank">https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html</a></div><div>[3] <a href="https://enriquetaso.wordpress.com/2016/05/07/installing-devstack-on-a-vagrant-virtual-machine/" target="_blank">https://enriquetaso.wordpress.com/2016/05/07/installing-devstack-on-a-vagrant-virtual-machine/</a><br></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 7:36 AM Ramsha Azeemi <<a href="mailto:ramshaazeemi2@gmail.com" target="_blank">ramshaazeemi2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:2px solid rgb(114,159,207);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class="gmail-m_-893040258824100109gmail-m_163410489462001412gmail-m_-1228121857232225307gmail-timestamp" style="display:inline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Consolas,"Lucida Console",monospace;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(240,247,255)"><br class="gmail-m_-893040258824100109gmail-m_163410489462001412gmail-m_-1228121857232225307gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Consolas,"Lucida Console",monospace;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(240,247,255)"> hi! i am windows user is it necessary to be a linux ubuntu user for contribution in openstack projects. </span><div> <br></div></div>
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