[openstack-dev] [Ceilometer] PTL Candidacy

Tristan Cacqueray tristan.cacqueray at enovance.com
Tue Sep 23 13:46:00 UTC 2014


confirmed

On 23/09/14 05:10 AM, Eoghan Glynn wrote:
> 
> Folks,
> 
> I'd like to continue serving as Telemetry PTL for a second cycle.
> 
> When I took on the role for Juno, I saw some challenges facing the
> project that would take multi-cycle efforts to resolve, so I'd like to
> have the opportunity to see that move closer to completion.
> 
> Over Juno, our focus as a project has necessarily been on addressing
> the TC gap analysis. We've been successful in ensuring that the agreed
> gap coverage tasks were completed. The team made great strides in
> making the sql-alchemy driver a viable option for PoCs and small
> deployments, getting meaningful Tempest & Grenade coverage in place,
> and writing quality user- and operator-oriented documentation. This
> has addressed a portion of our usability debt, but as always we need
> to continue chipping away at that.
> 
> In parallel, an arms-length effort was kicked off to look at paying
> down accumulated architectural debt in Ceilometer via a new approach
> to more lightweight timeseries data storage via the Gnocchi project.
> This was approached in such a way as to minimize the disruption to
> the core project.
> 
> My vision for Kilo would be to shift our focus a bit more onto such
> longer-terms strategic efforts. Clearly we need to complete the work
> on Gnocchi and figure out the migration and co-existence issues.
> 
> In addition, we started a conversation with the Monasca folks at the
> Juno summit on the commonality between the two projects. Over Kilo I
> would like to broaden and deepen the collaboration that was first
> mooted in Atlanta, by figuring out specific incremental steps around
> converging some common functional areas such as alarming. We can also
> learn from the experience of the Monasca project in getting the best
> possible performance out of TSD storage in InfluxDB, or achieving very
> high throughput messaging via Apache Kafka.
> 
> There are also cross-project debts facing our community that we need
> to bring some of our focus to IME. In particular, I'm thinking here
> about the move towards taking integration test coverage back out of
> Tempest and into new project-specific functional test suites. Also the
> oft-proposed, but never yet delivered-upon, notion of "contractizing"
> cross-project interactions mediated by notifications.
> 
> Finally, it's worth noting that our entire community has a big
> challenge ahead of it in terms of the proposed move towards a new
> layering structure. If re-elected, I would see myself as an active
> participant in that discussion, ensuring the interests of the project
> are positively represented.
> 
> Cheers,
> Eoghan
> 
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