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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