[openstack-dev] [Ironic][Nova] The process around the Nova Ironic driver

Matt Riedemann mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Aug 27 17:14:28 UTC 2015



On 8/26/2015 6:20 PM, Michael Davies wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
>
> John Villalovos and I have been acting as the Nova-Ironic liaisons,
> which mostly means dealing with bugs that have been raised against the
> Ironic driver in Nova. So you can understand what we’ve been doing, and
> how you can help us do that job better, we’re writing this email to
> clarify the process we’re following.
>
> Weekly Bug Scrub: Each week (Tuesday 2300 UTC) John and Michael meet to
> go through the results of this query
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bugs?field.tag=ironic&orderby=-id&start=0
> to find bugs that we don’t know about, to see what progress has been
> happening, and to see if there’s any direct action that needs to be
> taken. We record the result of this triage over here
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Nova-Ironic-Bugs
>
> Fix Bugs: If we are able, and have the capacity, we try and fix bugs
> ourselves. Where we need it, we seek help from both the Nova and/or
> Ironic communities. But finding people to help fix bugs in the Nova
> Ironic driver is probably an area we can do better at (*hint* *hint*)
>
> Review Bugs: Once fixes are proposed, we solicit reviews for these
> fixes.  Once we’re happy that the proposed solution isn’t completely
> bonkers, one of us will +1 that review, and add it to the list of Nova
> bugs that need review by Nova:
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/liberty-nova-priorities-tracking
>
> Attend the Nova team meeting: One of us will attend the weekly IRC
> meeting to represent the Ironic team interests within Nova. Nova might
> want to discuss new requirements they have on drivers, or to discuss a
> bug that has been raised, or to find out, or to communicate, which bugs
> the other team feel are important to be addressed before the
> ever-looming next release.
>
> Attend the Ironic team Meeting: John will attend the weekly IRC meeting
> to raise any issues with the broader team that we become aware of.  It
> might be that a new bug has been raised and we need to find someone
> willing to take it on, or it may be that an existing bug with a proposed
> change is languishing due to a lack of reviews (Michael can’t do that as
> 2:30am local time is just a little wrong for an IRC meeting :)
>
>
> So there it is, that's how the Ironic team are supporting the Ironic
> driver in Nova.  If you have any questions, or just want to dive in and
> fix bugs raised against the driver, you’re most welcome to get in touch
> - on IRC I’m ‘mrda’ and John is ‘jlvillal‘ :)
>
> Michael…
> --
> Michael Davies michael at the-davies.net <mailto:michael at the-davies.net>
> Rackspace Cloud Builders Australia
>
>
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Thanks, this all seems like goodness to me.  I was waiting for the, 
'but, the problem is...'. :)

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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann




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