On 12/17/2013 04:25 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: > Mathew R Odden wrote: >> Not to hijack the topic, but I have a team of university students that I >> am looking for an OpenStack related blueprint/project for them to work >> on. I think this would be something that wouldn't be too hard for them >> to jump into and achieve some results for the duration of their team >> project. >> >> I also think it would be an extremely useful utility for managing the >> growing amount of meetings. > > I think that would be a good project for them (limited scope, > self-contained), unless you want them to get familiar with OpenStack > itself (rather than our development infrastructure). > > They might need mentoring though, especially to understand > gerrit/zuul/jobs which is a pretty essential part of the process (check > jobs to check availability and file syntax, post-merge jobs to refresh > the ICS and get it published in human-readable fashion). I can help as > the "customer" expressing feature requests, but can't spend too much > time mentoring. > > Let us know if they grab it so that we don't spend more time on it.
I think it's a great idea.
I think there are 2 approaches that I see being fruitful, depending on
the kind of problem the team is going after.
1) the yaml -> ical converter.
Bulk of invention is going to be on the converter, especially
translating into ical recurrance rules. Also will probably want / need
to build an HTML UI for the end result so people can actually see it on
a webpage as well.
2) drupal + calendar + workflow
I was actually thinking about what ttx said about no tool existing out
there to be able to take calendar updates into an approval queue. I
think you could actually build that pretty easily with drupal base site
(logins connected to lp openid) + calendar modules + workflow module
(that allows for approval queues on changes).
Different set of things to learn (more on the drupal side), however the
advantages would be that a lot of the UI and ical bits would be handled
already.
I've got experience both ways, so hit me up on irc with questions on
either approach.
-Sean
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Sean Dague
http://dague.net
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