Hi Alek,

On 07/11/2013 09:03, Alek Paunov wrote:> On 06.11.2013 19:35, Loic Dachary 
wrote:
>> Hi Ceph,
>>
>> I would like to open a discussion about organizing a Ceph User Committee. We 
>> briefly discussed the idea with Ross Turk, Patrick McGarry and Sage Weil 
>> today during the OpenStack summit. A pad was created and roughly summarizes 
>> the idea:
>>
>> What do you think ?
>>
> 
> The core Ceph developers are entirely engaged with deep Ceph internals, 
> optimizations and sophisticated new features.
> 
> On the other side, I think, the Ceph community is able to help further with 
> the wider and smoother Ceph adoption (further than current mailing list 
> participation in the support) with far more simple and generic bits of code:
> 
> Web application - Ceph setups gallery. Could be organized like github: 
> account/setup. Setup consists of (declarative - e.g JSON/XML exportable) 
> Topology, Hardware, OSs, Ceph (setup method, command/script steps and/or 
> chef/puppet artifacts, final running ceph configs on node classes).

> 
> When a Ceph architect/admin have a successful, tuned cluster, if she is 
> willing to share (or just keep as documentation), describes the setup under 
> her account (with private bits obfuscated).

That makes senses. Do you see this as being in the scope of 
http://wiki.ceph.com/01Planning/02Blueprints/Firefly/Ceph-Brag ? I've added it 
to the "Work items" of http://pad.ceph.com/p/user-committee.

> 
> When a new Ceph user want to ask a question or need help, he can (as 
> alternative of current setup descriptions in e-mail prose) create an account 
> and add his draft there, pointing in the e-mail to the revision. Also a new 
> user can just clone existing template, adjust to his local context and try to 
> generate scripts and/or management system artifacts on top of the revision 
> export.
> 
> Once the basic data schema have been roughly determined, interactive SVG 
> views (using/like d3js) could be added.

It looks like this is a natural extension of 
http://wiki.ceph.com/01Planning/02Blueprints/Firefly/Ceph-Brag , would you like 
to expand this idea there ?

Cheers

> Regards,
> Alek
> 

-- 
Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre

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