Hi Stack QAers, There are quite a few folks interested in QA coming to the OpenStack Essex Design Summit next week. I wanted to give you all a heads-up on the sessions that may be of interest to you.
Here they are: Monday, Oct 3rd: 09:30-10:25 - Essex Release Cycle - http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/6a56ba48d52da3a46f85699e82097901 Thierry Carrez, our illustrious release manager, will do a post-mortem on the Diablo release cycle and discuss potential changes for the Essex release cycle. I know almost all QAers have expressed desires to have maintenance branches managed by the QA team and I've heard suggestions about various QA-centric freeze points. Those interested in advocating for these things should plan to attend this session. 14:00-14:45 - Stable Release Updates - http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/ad2f43c3c900a2412e3981b8ea857181 Dave Walker from Canonical plans to outline some possibilities for how to maintain and update stable releases of OpenStack projects. 15:00-15:45 - Separating API from Implementation of the API - http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/66f38d3bb4a1b8b169b81179e7f03215 Total self-promotion of a session I've proposed... I think anyone interested in stabilizing the OpenStack APIs and having OpenStack APIs become the open standards for the cloud computing industry should attend. 16:30-17:15 - OpenStack Compute API 2.0 - http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/dc89ee807f4cee6718cda6549b737e3d Glen Campbell will be leading a discussion about how to improve the Compute (Nova) API for a 2.0 API series. I think it's important that a number of folks on the QA team attend this session and get an idea of the things that we will be looking at in the future regarding the Compute API. Personally, I'm definitely planning on attending this one. 17:30 - 17:55 - NetStack Continuous Integration Planning - http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/c68faab3984bba3003adfc75a0cb0103 Personally, I will not be at this session as I have another session to lead. However, I think it is important that a number of people from the QA team attend this session, listen to the needs of the NetStack contributors, voice our support for their projects, explain what the goals of our team are, and enable some cross-team collaborative efforts around CI and QA. Tuesday, Oct 4th: 09:30 - 09:55 - Documentation Strategies for OpenStack - http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/b4ee36022573ad50b1e23e9788226e84 Anne Gentle will be leading a discussion about documentation of OpenStack projects. One of the deliverables of the OpenStack QA team is clearly to identify areas where specifications don't match behaviour, so I think it's pretty critical that the Doc Team and the QA team be on the same page when it comes to how to coordinate communication of documentation discrepancies. 09:30 - 09:55 - VM Disk Management in Nova - http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/e9c0baa7a606f320777e04baf531469c At the same time as the documentation session, Paul Voccio is leading a discussion about VM disk management in Nova. Those QAers focusing on disk/volume management may want to attend this session to ensure the QA team has a good grasp of changes coming in this arena. 10:00 - 10-25 - OpenStack Common - http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/4a20ba873ff18cb14eccf0392ba7aff7 Brian Lamar will be leading a discussion on getting serious about the potential of an openstack-common Python library of common code shared amongst many OpenStack projects. Hey, it's a heck of a lot easier to QA code that's in one location than the same code, written with slight differences, spread across many projects... seems like a no-brainer for the QA team to attend and support this idea. :) 11:00 - 11:25 - Monitoring in Swift - http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/cb1331a198be5ed4920d2ab4eb508a4b John Dickinson will be leading a session to discuss what things should be monitored across a Swift cluster, and what tools are available for monitoring. I think this discussion will be valuable for those of us interested in long-running production integration tests where Swift is one of the components of a full OpenStack test cluster. 12:00 - 12:25 - Integration Test Suites and Gating Trunk - http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/8477f29c978a90edef7e0fbca5786dc0 A no brainer... in this session we will talk about the various integration test suites for Nova/Glance/Keystone and discuss the effort already underway to combine them. In addition, we will talk about what policies to recommend for OpenStack projects regarding what level of passing integration tests should hold up a gated trunk. 15:30 - 15:55 - Making VM State Handling More Robust - http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/d621cc6cc3bbdc9d8df1a4909d6799ac Phil Day is leading a discussion about ways in which the handling of VM state transitions can be inconsistent and confusing. Since the QA team is responsible for documenting just such inconsistencies and building tests cases for such inconsistent behaviour, I think this session would be good to hang around in and listen/take notes. 16:30 - 17:25 - OpenStack Faithful Implementation Test Suites (FITS) - http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/787dd036c1a093d52a72274a8f8561ca Josh McKenty will be talking about certain proposals regarding a FITS for OpenStack APIs. Should be an interesting session :) Wednesday, Oct 5th: 09:30 - 10:25 - XenServer/KVM Feature Parity Plan - http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/468aa6159fc652d020039092b22ad4c1 This session should be good for those QAers interested in identifying areas where feature parity between hypervisors is lacking, and discussing ways in which the QA team can document these disparities and produce tests for identifying future disparity among hypervisors. 11:00 - 11:45 - Glance Throughput Improvements - http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/cc26b70de1216fe4ad405fbcbf2cdf15 This session is being led by Tim Reddins, from HP, who (along with his team) have done some analysis on ways to improve Glance's throughput. QAers interested in stress, capacity, and parallelism testing should definitely attend! 11:30 - 11:55 - Nova Upgrades - http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/216ab8d07988c057b3d3a93a074aa365 Ray Hookway will talk about ways that Nova's update process can be made more robust. I imagine that the talk's recommendations will be generally applicable to many OpenStack projects, not just Nova. I also think that some members of the QA team should attend -- we should be able to create functional tests for upgrade processes for all OpenStack projects... 14:30 - 14:55 - Git/Gerrit Best Practices - http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/564323cb448c852eeeba7b9164e0ee94 Monty Taylor is leading this session on Gerrit/Git best practices. I recommend everyone go, if only to see the fireworks. 15:30 - 15:55 - Quality Assurance in OpenStack - http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/127dd59068e1bab0da6805c3f012fc22 Uhm, duh, you should all be at this one. :) We'll discuss how to divide the voluminous amount of work among our members, talk about which projects (and components within certain projects) are high-priority items, the ways we should communicate and track progress, etc 17:00 - 17:25 - Internal Service Communication - http://essexdesignsummit.sched.org/event/540ebb9f4e764c8cbfcfb1df49ccd4ad Brian Waldon is leading a session on internal service communication that should be quite interesting. The integration testing coverage of major internal service components of Nova is currently light, and is one of those areas I think should be carefully picked over by our QA team. OK, that's the recommendations from me, but of course, feel free to attend whatever sessions are of most interest to you. I'm very much looking forward to meeting all of you (we're up to 28 members as of this writing). Cheers, and see you tomorrow! -jay _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
