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Hi Jimmy and Melvin,

Just a post-Boston follow-up to thank you guys for the advice you gave
below, and to let you know the outcome.  My colleague Sampath
organised a Forum session for general HA discussion which we
co-chaired, and it was really well attended with some good
discussions!

    https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/BOS-forum-HA-in-openstack

I have just sent a follow-up message to openstack-{dev,operators}:

    http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-May/116703.html

Thanks again, and I hope that we can continue to host these forum
discussions at future summits!

Cheers,
Adam

Jimmy McArthur <jimmy at openstack.org> wrote:
>Agree with Melvin here. Another suggestion is to put the BoF on the 
>schedule if you think it can garner enough attendance. As Melvin 
>suggests, grab a co-presenter/moderator or two. I would also suggest 
>attending sessions that you think might have an audience that would be 
>a fit for you BoF and letting people know about the discussion.
>>Melvin Hillsman <mailto:mrhillsman at gmail.com>
>>March 28, 2017 at 6:32 PM
>>Hey Adam,
>>
>>Might I suggest simply suggesting the session via 
>>http://forumtopics.openstack.org
>>
>>You will want to ensure that you or another person who is keen to 
>>get the feedback you think is relevant can moderate the session as 
>>well.
>>
>>-- 
>>Kind regards,
>>
>>Melvin Hillsman
>>Ops Technical Lead
>>OpenStack Innovation Center
>>
>>mrhillsman at gmail.com <mailto:mrhillsman at gmail.com>
>>phone: (210) 312-1267
>>mobile: (210) 413-1659
>>http://osic.org
>>
>>Learner | Ideation | Belief | Responsibility | Command
>>Adam Spiers <mailto:aspiers at suse.com>
>>March 28, 2017 at 7:12 AM
>>Hi there,
>>
>>There is no official Working Group for High Availability, but in my
>>(admittedly biased) experience as the chair of the weekly HA IRC
>>meetings, the lack of a designated space for HA discussions has been a
>>problem in pretty much every one of the 9 conference-summits and PTG
>>I've attended.  I raised this last year:
>>
>>    http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-August/100570.html
>>
>>
>>Pretty much all the topics I mentioned in that mail are still
>>relevant.  The difficulty in coordinating the right kinds of
>>discussions between the right kind of people is that OpenStack HA is a
>>mixed pot of topics which overlap to very different degrees.  For
>>example the use of technologies such as Pacemaker and tooz potentially
>>span multiple projects, as does feedback from operators[0], whereas
>>other HA topics can be entirely specific to one project (Neutron is a
>>good example of this).
>>
>>Feedback from operators to developers on HA is one area I would
>>particularly like to see more space for.  For example, there was a
>>very interesting HA-oriented session at the recent MIL ops meetup:
>>
>>   https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/MIL-ops-rabbitmq-pitfalls-ha
>>
>>Unfortunately I was not at the event so I don't know how many upstream
>>developers attended the session, or if there was any feedback sent to
>>developers as a consequence.  And conversely, there didn't seem to be
>>many operators at the Atlanta PTG.  But the main conference events
>>could serve as a great opportunity for connecting operators with
>>developers for these kinds of discussions.
>>
>>I'm hesitant to propose a new HA working group, because I doubt
>>there'd be sufficient cohesion of interests across the whole group,
>>and it might well be overkill.  A BoF approach would probably make
>>more sense, but I have to admit I don't have a lot of experience in
>>coordinating these kinds of face-to-face discussions, so any advice on
>>how best to handle this would be most welcome!
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Adam
>>Jimmy McArthur <mailto:jimmy at openstack.org>
>>March 27, 2017 at 1:41 PM
>>Good day!
>>
>>We are putting a call out to any additional Working Groups that 
>>might require space for the OpenStack Summit Boston, May 8-11th!  
>>The initial call was for official working groups, but we have 
>>additional space that we would love to fill with other Working 
>>Groups in need.
>>
>>Please submit all space requests to speakersupport at openstack.org. 
>>All we need is the name of your Working Group and the person that 
>>will be adding the presentation details. We will fill them in the 
>>order received and send instructions for logging in and entering 
>>your data.  All requests must be received by Friday, March 31.
>>
>>If we have additional room (and we likely will), we will open it up 
>>to BoFs.
>>
>>Thank you!
>>Jimmy McArthur & Erin Disney
>>
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