Open Stack

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019, at 12:20 PM, Javier Romero wrote:
> Hi Team,
> My name is Javier and live in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
> 
> Work in the Network Operations Center of an Internet Service Provider where
> I deploy and manage mission critical Linux Servers.
> 
> Would like to know, if there is something I can help with on the OpenStack
> Infrastructure Team.
> 
> Thanks for your attention.

Sorry for the slow response, I have been traveling recently. We are always happy to have contributions/help to run the development infastructure for OpenStack.

Currently our big efforts are around modernizing our configuration management [0] and updating our git hosting setup [1]. One place to start may be with reviewing changes that implement these efforts [2].

Other tasks that we have in progress are updating our older servers to Xenial or Bionic from Precise [3]. We will also likely need to do some Gerrit plugin work in the near future to improve our ability to create and rename projects as well as restart Gerrit without pushing all replicated repos. This work will likely involve a lot of Java.

If any of this sounds interesting to you let me know and I can help walk you through it a bit more (feel free to contact me directly via email or IRC (freenode #openstack-infra, my nick is clarkb) as you get bootstrapped as well). If this doesn't look interesting but you would still like to get involved feel free to share you interests and we may be able to find some good fits for them.

Finally, our user [4] and administrator [5] docs are a good place to read through to get a sense for how we operate and how our users use our services.

[0] http://specs.openstack.org/openstack-infra/infra-specs/specs/update-config-management.html
[1] http://specs.openstack.org/openstack-infra/infra-specs/specs/opendev-gerrit.html
[2] https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+AND+(topic:update-cfg-mgmt+OR+topic:puppet-4+OR+topic:opendev-gerrit)
[3] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/201808-infra-server-upgrades-and-cleanup
[4] https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/
[5] https://docs.openstack.org/infra/system-config/

Hope this helps,
Clark