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On 08/30/2018 08:28 AM, Honza Pokorny wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Over the last few months, it seems that tripleo-quickstart has evolved
> into a CI tool.  It's primarily used by computers, and not humans.
> tripleo-quickstart is a helpful set of ansible playbooks, and a
> collection of feature sets.  However, it's become less useful for
> setting up development environments by humans.  For example, devmode.sh
> was recently deprecated without a user-friendly replacement. Moreover,
> during some informal irc conversations in #oooq, some developers even
> mentioned the plan to merge tripleo-quickstart and tripleo-ci.
>
> I think it would be beneficial to create a set of defaults for
> tripleo-quickstart that can be used to spin up new environments; a set
> of defaults for humans.  This can either be a well-maintained script in
> tripleo-quickstart itself, or a brand new project, e.g.
> tripleo-quickstart-humans.  The number of settings, knobs, and flags
> should be kept to a minimum.
>
> This would accomplish two goals:
>
> 1.  It would bring uniformity to the team.  Each environment is
>     installed the same way.  When something goes wrong, we can
>     eliminate differences in setup when debugging.  This should save a
>     lot of time.
>
> 2.  Quicker and more reliable environment setup.  If the set of defaults
>     is used by many people, it should container fewer bugs because more
>     people using something should translate into more bug reports, and
>     more bug fixes.
>
> These thoughts are coming from the context of tripleo-ui development.  I
> need an environment in order to develop, but I don't necessarily always
> care about how it's installed.  I want something that works for most
> scenarios.
>
> What do you think?  Does this make sense?  Does something like this
> already exist?
>
> Thanks for listening!
>
> Honza
>
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Thanks for bringing this up, Honza.  If something like this does exist, please share.  Otherwise, we're moving further and further away from Quickstart being useful for Devs which is a problem for the entire community, in my opinion.

-J
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