[openstack-dev] Operators & Design Summit ideas for Atlanta

Adam Young ayoung at redhat.com
Tue Apr 1 03:40:57 UTC 2014


On 03/28/2014 03:01 AM, Tom Fifield wrote:
> Thanks to those projects that responded. I've proposed sessions in 
> swift, ceilometer, tripleO and horizon.


Keystone would also be interested in user feedback, of course.
>
> On 17/03/14 07:54, Tom Fifield wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> Many times we've heard a desire for more feedback and interaction from
>> users. However, their attendance at design summit sessions is met with
>> varied success.
>>
>> However, last summit, by happy accident, a swift session turned into a
>> something a lot more user driven. A competent user was able to describe
>> their use case, and the developers were able to stage a number of
>> question to them. In this way, some of the assumptions about the way
>> certain things were implemented, and the various priorities of future
>> plans became clearer. It worked really well ... perhaps this is
>> something we'd like to have happen for all the projects?
>>
>> *Idea*: Add an "ops" session for each project in the design summit
>> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/ATL-ops-dedicated-design-summit-sessions 
>>
>>
>>
>> Most operators running OpenStack tend to treat it more holistically than
>> those coding it. They are aware of, but don't necessarily think or work
>> in terms of project  breakdowns. To this end, I'd imagine the such
>> sessions would:
>>
>>   * have a primary purpose for developers to ask the operators to answer
>>     questions, and request information
>>
>>   * allow operators to tell the developers things (give feedback) as a
>>     secondary purpose that could potentially be covered better in a
>>     cross-project session
>>
>>   * need good moderation, for example to push operator-to-operator
>>     discussion into forums with more time available (eg
>>     https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/ATL-ops-unconference-RFC )
>>
>>   * be reinforced by having volunteer "good" users in potentially every
>>     design summit session
>>     (https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/ATL-ops-in-design-sessions )
>>
>>
>> Anyway, just a strawman - please jump on the etherpad
>> (https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/ATL-ops-dedicated-design-summit-sessions) 
>>
>> or leave your replies here!
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
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