On 2014-09-07 8:14 PM, Monty Taylor wrote:
If I were king ...
1. Caring about end user experience at all
If I don't do anything at all next cycle, I will see the above fixed.
Because it's embarrassing. Seriously. Try to use OpenStack from python
some time. I dare you.
>
> [...]
Between 2 and 3, maybe we can make a kilo release that has a net
negative SLOC count. But, honestly, screw 2 and 3 - let's all just work
on 1.
On 2014-09-08 5:07 PM, James E. Blair wrote:
>
> 3) A real SDK
>
> OpenStack is so nearly impossible to use, that we have a substantial
> amount of code in the infrastructure program to do things that,
> frankly, we are a bit surprised that the client libraries don't do.
> Just getting an instance with an IP address is an enormous challenge,
> and something that took us years to get right. We still have problems
> deleting instances. We need client libraries (an SDK if you will) and
> command line clients that are easy for users to understand and work
> with, and hide the gory details of how the sausage is made.
I 100% agree with both of you. The user experience is a MAJOR concern
for us. I'm not a good writer able to articulate my thoughts as good as
I would like but both Monty and James managed to communicate and
summarize them.
As a technical person, I often don't see the level of complexity in
tools I use, I like challenges. I will gladly learn new complex stuff if
needed. But when I first tried to use OpenStack client libraries, it was
one of those times where I told myself: wow, it sucks. Especially around
lack of consistency. Or as Monty said, the number of hoops you have to
go through just to get a pingable instance. And it was and still is the
opinion shared by some of my coworkers.
If we could improve this aspect, I would be so happy.
--
Mathieu
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