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On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 9:40 AM, Emilien Macchi <emilien at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 6:47 AM, Sagi Shnaidman <sshnaidm at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi, all
>>
>> I'd like to propose an idea to make one or two days hackathon in TripleO
>> project with main goal - to reduce deployment time of TripleO.
>>
>> - How could it be arranged?
>>
>> We can arrange a separate IRC channel and Bluejeans video conference session
>> for hackathon in these days to create a "presence" feeling.
>
> +1 for IRC. We already have #openstack-sprint, that we could re-use.
> Also +1 for video conference, to get face to face interactions,
> promptly and unscheduled.
>
>> - How to participate and contribute?
>>
>> We'll have a few responsibility fields like tripleo-quickstart, containers,
>> storage, HA, baremetal, etc - the exact list should be ready before the
>> hackathon so that everybody could assign to one of these "teams". It's good
>> to have somebody in team to be stakeholder and responsible for organization
>> and tasks.
>
> Before running the sprint, we should first track bugs / blueprints
> related to deployment speed.
> Not everyone in our team understands why some parts of deployments
> take time, so we need to make it visible so everyone can know how they
> can help during the sprint.
>
> Maybe we could create a Launchpad tag "deployment-time" to track bugs
> related to it. We should also make prioritization so we can work on
> the most critical ones first.

Proposed here: https://review.openstack.org/467335
Discussion can happen in Gerrit for this one.

> I like the idea of breaking down the skills into small groups:
>
> - High Availability: deployment & runtime of Pacemaker optimization
> - Puppet: anything related to the steps (a bit more general but only a
> few of us have expertise on it, we could improve it).
> - Heat: work with the Heat team if we have some pending bugs about slowness.
> - Baremetal: ironic / workflows
> - tripleo-quickstart: tasks that can be improved / optimized
>
> This is a proposal ^ feel free to (comment,add|remove) anything.
>
>
>> - What is the goal?
>>
>> The goal of this hackathon to reduce deployment time of TripleO as much as
>> possible.
>>
>> For example part of CI team takes a task to reduce quickstart tasks time. It
>> includes statistics collection, profiling and detection of places to
>> optimize. After this tasks are created, patches are tested and submitted.
>>
>> The prizes will be presented to teams which saved most of time :)
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> Excellent idea, thanks Sagi for proposing it.
>
> Another thought: before doing the sprint, we might want to make sure
> our tripleo-ci is in stable shape (which is not the case right now, we
> have 4 alerts and one of them affects ovb-ha)...
>
>> Thanks
>> --
>> Best regards
>> Sagi Shnaidman
>
>
>
> --
> Emilien Macchi



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