Great stuff, Dan -- thanks!

I've added the bug link from below to the PyCon sprint wiki page -- Mark 
McClain might be able to start hitting some of those tomorrow ...

d

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On Mar 12, 2012, at 4:10 PM, Dan Wendlandt <d...@nicira.com> wrote:

> Hi team,
> 
> As we start to look forward to Folsom, I know there will be a lot of 
> excitement around shiny new directions we can take Quantum (L3, VPN/DCI, 
> etc.).  This is great, and we will be moving in this direction during Folsom. 
>  I know many people are looking to participate here.  
> 
> But I also want to stress the importance of also focusing on less shiny tasks 
> that are central to building a solid and usable platform.  To this end, I 
> wanted to highlight a link I sent out during last weeks meeting: 
> http://wiki.openstack.org/QuantumStarterBugs
> 
> This page has a pointer to low-hanging fruit bugs as well as a list of 
> "community projects" that are not necessarily shiny, but are critical to the 
> progress of the project.  This includes things like improving the CLI, 
> integrating with Horizon/Keystone, building a system test infrastructure, 
> updating documentation, multi-host devstack, etc.  
> 
> In many cases, these are items that we targeted for Essex, but didn't have 
> sufficient core dev resources to tackle.  With Quantum becoming core in 
> Folsom, we can't afford to have that happen again, as expectations around 
> Quantums usability, robustness and integration with other projects will be 
> much higher in Folsom than it was for Essex.  
> 
> I encourage others to add items to this page as well.  My general rule is 
> that something is a community project if its unlikely that someone is doing 
> the work to enable something for their platform/company.  As a hint, if a 
> bunch of people who express interesting in working on something, its probably 
> not a community project.  If people have been saying "hey, someone should 
> really fix/improve X" for a while, the fix would help just about everyone, 
> but no one has yet stepped forward, its probably a community project :)  
> 
> So in sum, as an open source project, we must make sure everyone is 
> encouraged and rewarded for working on core community projects.  I also want 
> to make sure sufficient time at the summit is dedicated to how we will 
> progress on both community projects.  
> 
> Since we will soon be able to register sessions for the Folsom summits, I'd 
> like people to chime in on the list for what they think are the most 
> important "community projects", as well as "shiny objects" for us to discuss 
> at the summit.  Hopefully this will make the process of designing sessions 
> more collaborative and community-driver, rather than a game of "I better try 
> and register the session on X before someone else does".  
> 
> Here are some initial thoughts: 
> 
> community projects: 
> - improve system test / devstack / tempest 
> - quantum authn + authz (yes, we still do not have basic API auth)
> - better integration with openstack CI team (we want automated smoketests to 
> run on each check-in)
> - quantum CLI / client improvements.  (many changes needed to be more inline 
> with other core projects) 
> - reworking of quantum / nova integration (remove dependence on nova db, 
> etc.) 
> - better model for learning what extensions are supported by the currently 
> running plugin.
> - quantum + horizon GUI flow (and framework for widgets that use API 
> extensions). 
> - melange / quantum integration 
> - DHCP API / service
> 
> shiny objects: 
> - L3 API 
> - VPN / data-center-interconnect
> - firewalling / security groups. 
> 
> Please reply with your own input.  Thanks,
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> 
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