Open Stack

Hi Jay

Thank you for your great recommendations!
Cheers
Nachi

2011/10/2 Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com>:
> Hi Stack QAers,
>
> There are quite a few folks interested in QA coming to the OpenStack
> Essex Design Summit next week. I wanted to give you all a heads-up on
> the sessions that may be of interest to you.
>
> Here they are:
>
> Monday, Oct 3rd:
>
> 09:30-10:25 - Essex Release Cycle -
> http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/6a56ba48d52da3a46f85699e82097901
>
> Thierry Carrez, our illustrious release manager, will do a post-mortem
> on the Diablo release cycle and discuss potential changes for the
> Essex release cycle. I know almost all QAers have expressed desires to
> have maintenance branches managed by the QA team and I've heard
> suggestions about various QA-centric freeze points. Those interested
> in advocating for these things should plan to attend this session.
>
> 14:00-14:45 - Stable Release Updates -
> http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/ad2f43c3c900a2412e3981b8ea857181
>
> Dave Walker from Canonical plans to outline some possibilities for how
> to maintain and update stable releases of OpenStack projects.
>
> 15:00-15:45 - Separating API from Implementation of the API -
> http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/66f38d3bb4a1b8b169b81179e7f03215
>
> Total self-promotion of a session I've proposed... I think anyone
> interested in stabilizing the OpenStack APIs and having OpenStack APIs
> become the open standards for the cloud computing industry should
> attend.
>
> 16:30-17:15 - OpenStack Compute API 2.0 -
> http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/dc89ee807f4cee6718cda6549b737e3d
>
> Glen Campbell will be leading a discussion about how to improve the
> Compute (Nova) API for a 2.0 API series. I think it's important that a
> number of folks on the QA team attend this session and get an idea of
> the things that we will be looking at in the future regarding the
> Compute API. Personally, I'm definitely planning on attending this
> one.
>
> 17:30 - 17:55 - NetStack Continuous Integration Planning -
> http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/c68faab3984bba3003adfc75a0cb0103
>
> Personally, I will not be at this session as I have another session to
> lead. However, I think it is important that a number of people from
> the QA team attend this session, listen to the needs of the NetStack
> contributors, voice our support for their projects, explain what the
> goals of our team are, and enable some cross-team collaborative
> efforts around CI and QA.
>
> Tuesday, Oct 4th:
>
> 09:30 - 09:55 - Documentation Strategies for OpenStack -
> http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/b4ee36022573ad50b1e23e9788226e84
>
> Anne Gentle will be leading a discussion about documentation of
> OpenStack projects. One of the deliverables of the OpenStack QA team
> is clearly to identify areas where specifications don't match
> behaviour, so I think it's pretty critical that the Doc Team and the
> QA team be on the same page when it comes to how to coordinate
> communication of documentation discrepancies.
>
> 09:30 - 09:55 - VM Disk Management in Nova -
> http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/e9c0baa7a606f320777e04baf531469c
>
> At the same time as the documentation session, Paul Voccio is leading
> a discussion about VM disk management in Nova. Those QAers focusing on
> disk/volume management may want to attend this session to ensure the
> QA team has a good grasp of changes coming in this arena.
>
> 10:00 - 10-25 - OpenStack Common -
> http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/4a20ba873ff18cb14eccf0392ba7aff7
>
> Brian Lamar will be leading a discussion on getting serious about the
> potential of an openstack-common Python library of common code shared
> amongst many OpenStack projects. Hey, it's a heck of a lot easier to
> QA code that's in one location than the same code, written with slight
> differences, spread across many projects... seems like a no-brainer
> for the QA team to attend and support this idea. :)
>
> 11:00 - 11:25 - Monitoring in Swift -
> http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/cb1331a198be5ed4920d2ab4eb508a4b
>
> John Dickinson will be leading a session to discuss what things should
> be monitored across a Swift cluster, and what tools are available for
> monitoring. I think this discussion will be valuable for those of us
> interested in long-running production integration tests where Swift is
> one of the components of a full OpenStack test cluster.
>
> 12:00 - 12:25 - Integration Test Suites and Gating Trunk -
> http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/8477f29c978a90edef7e0fbca5786dc0
>
> A no brainer... in this session we will talk about the various
> integration test suites for Nova/Glance/Keystone and discuss the
> effort already underway to combine them. In addition, we will talk
> about what policies to recommend for OpenStack projects regarding what
> level of passing integration tests should hold up a gated trunk.
>
> 15:30 - 15:55 - Making VM State Handling More Robust -
> http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/d621cc6cc3bbdc9d8df1a4909d6799ac
>
> Phil Day is leading a discussion about ways in which the handling of
> VM state transitions can be inconsistent and confusing. Since the QA
> team is responsible for documenting just such inconsistencies and
> building tests cases for such inconsistent behaviour, I think this
> session would be good to hang around in and listen/take notes.
>
> 16:30 - 17:25 - OpenStack Faithful Implementation Test Suites (FITS) -
> http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/787dd036c1a093d52a72274a8f8561ca
>
> Josh McKenty will be talking about certain proposals regarding a FITS
> for OpenStack APIs. Should be an interesting session :)
>
> Wednesday, Oct 5th:
>
> 09:30 - 10:25 - XenServer/KVM Feature Parity Plan -
> http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/468aa6159fc652d020039092b22ad4c1
>
> This session should be good for those QAers interested in identifying
> areas where feature parity between hypervisors is lacking, and
> discussing ways in which the QA team can document these disparities
> and produce tests for identifying future disparity among hypervisors.
>
> 11:00 - 11:45 - Glance Throughput Improvements -
> http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/cc26b70de1216fe4ad405fbcbf2cdf15
>
> This session is being led by Tim Reddins, from HP, who (along with his
> team) have done some analysis on ways to improve Glance's throughput.
> QAers interested in stress, capacity, and parallelism testing should
> definitely attend!
>
> 11:30 - 11:55 - Nova Upgrades -
> http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/216ab8d07988c057b3d3a93a074aa365
>
> Ray Hookway will talk about ways that Nova's update process can be
> made more robust. I imagine that the talk's recommendations will be
> generally applicable to many OpenStack projects, not just Nova. I also
> think that some members of the QA team should attend -- we should be
> able to create functional tests for upgrade processes for all
> OpenStack projects...
>
> 14:30 - 14:55 - Git/Gerrit Best Practices -
> http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/564323cb448c852eeeba7b9164e0ee94
>
> Monty Taylor is leading this session on Gerrit/Git best practices. I
> recommend everyone go, if only to see the fireworks.
>
> 15:30 - 15:55 - Quality Assurance in OpenStack -
> http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/127dd59068e1bab0da6805c3f012fc22
>
> Uhm, duh, you should all be at this one. :) We'll discuss how to
> divide the voluminous amount of work among our members, talk about
> which projects (and components within certain projects) are
> high-priority items, the ways we should communicate and track
> progress, etc
>
> 17:00 - 17:25 - Internal Service Communication -
> http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/540ebb9f4e764c8cbfcfb1df49ccd4ad
>
> Brian Waldon is leading a session on internal service communication
> that should be quite interesting. The integration testing coverage of
> major internal service components of Nova is currently light, and is
> one of those areas I think should be carefully picked over by our QA
> team.
>
> OK, that's the recommendations from me, but of course, feel free to
> attend whatever sessions are of most interest to you. I'm very much
> looking forward to meeting all of you (we're up to 28 members as of
> this writing).
>
> Cheers, and see you tomorrow!
> -jay
>
> _______________________________________________
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack
> Post to     : openstack at lists.launchpad.net
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>



-- 
Nachi Ueno
email:nati.ueno at gmail.com
twitter:http://twitter.com/nati