[openstack-dev] Horizon and Tuskar-UI codebase merge

Ana Krivokapic akrivoka at redhat.com
Thu Dec 19 17:22:52 UTC 2013


On 12/19/2013 05:32 PM, Jordan O'Mara wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> So basically this is our first proposal what we send out:
>> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-December/022196.html
>>
>> After Horizon meetings, several e-mails and also couple of other
>> discussions of people who are for/against codebase merge, it looks that
>> in the end upstream leans towards 'umbrella' solution.
>>
>> After all, +1 for umbrella solution from my side too. Tuskar UI will get
>> closer to the nature of the project (based on Horizon, UI related
>> audience). And in the same time, we will not rush things up before the
>> project graduates. In Icehouse we can easier reach goals of both -
>> Horizon as well as Tuskar UI - and after Icehouse release we can review
>> back and get to the codebase merge in the end.
>>
>> Do you all agree?
>>
>> -- Jarda
> +1, I think this is the most sensible approach.

+1 from me, this approach makes perfect sense.

>
>> On 2013/18/12 22:33, Gabriel Hurley wrote:
>>>  From my experience, directly adding incubated projects to the main Horizon
>>>  codebase prior to graduation has been fraught with peril. That said, the
>>>  closer they can be together prior to the graduation merge, the better.
>>>
>>> I like the idea of these types of projects being under the OpenStack
>>> Dashboard Program umbrella. Ideally I think it would be a jointly-managed
>>> resource in Gerrit. The Horizon Core folks would have +2 power, but the
>>> Tuskar core folks would also have +2 power. (I'm 90% certain that can be
>>> done in the Gerrit admin...)
>>>
>>> That way development speed isn't bottlenecked by Horizon Core, but there's
>>> a closer tie-in with the people who may ultimately be maintaining it. It
>>> becomes easier to keep track of, and can be more easily guided in the
>>> right directions. With a little work incubated dashboard components like
>>> this could even be made to be a non-gating part of the testing
>>> infrastructure to indicate when things change or break.
>>>
>>> Adding developers to Horizon Core just for the purpose of reviewing an
>>> incubated umbrella project is not the right way to do things at all.  If
>>> my proposal of two separate groups having the +2 power in Gerrit isn't
>>> technically feasible then a new group should be created for management of
>>> umbrella projects.
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>>
>>>       - Gabriel
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Regards,

Ana Krivokapic
Associate Software Engineer
OpenStack team
Red Hat Inc.




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