[User-committee] [Openstack-operators] Sydney Takeaways - UC

Melvin Hillsman mrhillsman at gmail.com
Mon Nov 13 18:21:23 UTC 2017


Hey David,

Nope, no action taken in a separate meeting. I had been thinking about this
for some time from the OpenStack Days China operators event in July as I
mentioned in the session and just wanted to get something down based on
things that had been swirling in my head and some notes I had sitting
around. Feel free to use the Google Doc or not, totally ok. I wanted to be
sure we captured key items from the Summit and got them down in the open to
ensure larger community is aware of what we are working on as UC.


On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 5:07 AM, David Medberry <openstack at medberry.net>
wrote:

> I took an action to work on this bit:
>
>    1. "stackalytics" for user community
>
> Closely tied to #5. Assists with non-developers being able to show their
> impact in the community and justify travel amongst other things.
>
>    - We should discuss how to make this happen and prioritize
>       - Started a document - https://docs.google.com/docu
>       ment/d/1P4b8A9ybBaEYCu7xwVFt37jcZYzs9taxfNprwKlbdh0
>       <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P4b8A9ybBaEYCu7xwVFt37jcZYzs9taxfNprwKlbdh0>
>
> and will work with Jimmy McArthur. Though maybe Melvin also took an item
> in a separate meeting...
>
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Melvin Hillsman <mrhillsman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> Wanted to start a thread for UC specific takeaways from the Summit. Here
>> are the things that stood out and would love additions:
>>
>> UC Top 5 - https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/SYD-forum-uc - we have
>> discussed previously having goals as a UC and in Sydney we decided to put
>> together a top 5 list; mirroring what the TC has done. We should be able to
>> provide this to the Board, Staff, and TC as needed and continuously update
>> the community on progress. We have not decided on any of these of course
>> but here is what is currently listed.
>>
>>    1. LTS
>>       - Conversation is going well via ML
>>       - Our discussion was to allow the folks who want to work on LTS
>>       the chance to do it as they see fit; no exact way but discussion actively
>>       going on, get involved
>>    2. Operator midcycle integration into larger event/feedback ecosystem
>>       - We have as a community made significant changes to ensure user
>>       feedback getting in front of those working on the code earlier than before
>>       and we have to be sure that we tie into that process as it is designed.
>>       - Mexico City was an edge case of the past few midcycles that have
>>       been community-led but gave great insight into worse case scenario; what
>>       have we learned and what can we do better?
>>       - How specifically can the Foundation Staff help - again the
>>       biggest need is to ensure tying into bigger ecosystem
>>    3. More operator proposed forum sessions
>>       - Very much tied to #2.
>>       4. Vision casting exercise
>>       - TC and documentation team has gone through this exercise; Doug
>>       Hellmann agreed to be available either F2F or via video conference to do
>>       this with UC
>>       5. Company view of non-developer community participation
>>       - It is easy for companies to hire/organize developers as FTEs for
>>       community work and impact is readily available via quantitative output from
>>       the community; commits, blueprints, etc.
>>       - It is equally important for companies to allow non-developers -
>>       project managers, product managers, system administrators, developers,
>>       devops engineers, etc - some percentage if not 100% to community work. It
>>       should not all be personal/volunteer time in order to increase the velocity
>>       of user community growth and impact.
>>       6. "stackalytics" for user community
>>       - Closely tied to #5. Assists with non-developers being able to
>>       show their impact in the community and justify travel amongst other things.
>>       - We should discuss how to make this happen and prioritize
>>       - Started a document - https://docs.google.com/docu
>>       ment/d/1P4b8A9ybBaEYCu7xwVFt37jcZYzs9taxfNprwKlbdh0
>>       <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P4b8A9ybBaEYCu7xwVFt37jcZYzs9taxfNprwKlbdh0>
>>    7. Joint TC/UC meetings
>>       - Ensuring there is more parity between TC and UC.
>>       - Carrying forward from Boston Forum
>>          - Feel free to crash each others meetings
>>
>> User Survey
>>
>>    - One important detail I took away from the User Survey session was a
>>    request to move the survey to being held once a year in terms of analysis
>>    and compilation.
>>    - Survey is always available to take. Suggestion was to prod
>>    community every quarter for example to take the survey while only compiling
>>    yearly report.
>>
>> OpenLab
>>
>>    - Initiated by OpenStack Foundation, Huawei, and Intel, currently
>>    involved companies include Deutsche Telekom and VEXXHOST. OpenLab currently
>>    is focusing on SDKs moving to define, stabilize, and support official
>>    OpenStack SDKs. Gophercloud is currently using OpenLab and work is being
>>    done to add the OpenStack provider for Terraform into the system.
>>    - Another phase of OpenLab is to tightly integrate with or learn
>>    heavily from OPNFV's XCI. Currently discussing this with the lead engineer
>>    of XCI and could possibly lead to re-branding XCI as OpenLab increasing the
>>    scope, collaboration, and integration of OpenLab components and Open Source
>>    communities.
>>    - As the UC, OpenLab is important to us, as it targets the user
>>    community of OpenStack and other user communities of
>>    tools/components/applications that work with OpenStack, so we should push
>>    with the Foundation to ensure it is successful.
>>
>> Cross-Community Participation
>>
>>    - gophercloud/terraform/k8s
>>       - greatly part of OpenLab (gophercloud integrated, terraform
>>       almost - +unittests/-acceptancetests - researching k8s connection
>>       - many sessions regarding SIGs of both k8s and OpenStack where
>>       many folks were interested in increased cross-pollination and not being
>>       redundant
>>    - OPNFV's XCI - mentioned previously also closely tied to OpenLab -
>>    first meeting scheduled for Friday 11/17 9-10am CST - reply if interested
>>    - It makes sense for entire community to look for ways to work more
>>    closely with other communities relevant to current and future work
>>
>> SIGs
>>
>>    - Concern from UC on relevance due to many going to SIGs model -
>>    should discuss further via ML openstack-sigs with [meta] tag
>>    - Bi-weekly "newsletter/digest" much like the openstack-dev list
>>    summary
>>       - single etherpad allowing SIGs to provide an update which will be
>>       compiled
>>    - Communication on what SIGs are and how they relate to existing
>>    Working Group/Project/Team structure (superuser, youtube, etc)
>>
>>
>>
>> Again, please add more items as you feel necessary. We want to be able to
>> create next steps from these items.
>>
>> --
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> OpenStack User Committee
>>
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Melvin Hillsman
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