Open Stack

On Jan 16, 2014, at 6:22 AM, Sean Dague wrote:

> That also assumes that survey responders understood the question the way
> we are interpreting it. The actual question should have been:
> 
> What toolkits do you use to interface with the OpenStack API?
> * OpenStack command line (i.e. nova cli)
> * openstack python libraries
> * jclouds
> * deltacloud
> ...
> * other - please specify
> * none - wrote our own
> 
> If you wrote your own toolkit for accessing the OpenStack API what wire
> format are you using?
> * JSON
> * XML
> 
> If you wrote your own toolkit for accessing the OpenStack API what
> programming language did you write it in?
> * C/C++
> * C#
> * Java
> * Python
> * Perl
> * PHP
> * Ruby
> * Other (please specify)
> 
> 
> Because the question as worded assumes far too much shared context and
> understanding in what we were looking for. We all understood what we
> wanted, but didn't unroll that in a specific enough way in the user survey.

This is good start on this stuff. It reminds me of an email Ryan Lane sent to the user-committee list [1]. I think now is the time to start asking for this kind of information in the user survey.

The user survey is mostly targeted at OpenStack operators right now so the wording might be kind of tricky but we need to try before the next big user survey push.

I think it's worthwhile to start a new thread and formulate these questions. I'll kick it off right now.

Everett

[1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/user-committee/2013-November/000186.html