Hi Jay Thank you for your great recommendations! Cheers Nachi
2011/10/2 Jay Pipes <[email protected]>: > 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 > -- Nachi Ueno email:[email protected] twitter:http://twitter.com/nati _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
