Re: [Netstack] OpenStack Dashboard

2011-08-09 Thread Jake Dahn
Heyo, I think the Quantum GUI might be best implemented using the new plugable app system I've been working on for allowing pluggable django applications for openstack-dashboard. Basically the idea is that you should be able to write your own modules/plugins/extensions (whatever they're called)

Re: [Netstack] OpenStack Dashboard

2011-08-09 Thread Devin Carlen
I think we should focus on using the existing modularity mechanisms inside this project, at least in terms of the dashboard integration. The Rackspace Cloudbuilders team has been improving some of the extensibility mechanisms and have provided some examples. I've added Jake Dahn to this thread

Re: [Netstack] OpenStack Dashboard

2011-08-08 Thread Arvind Somya
Hey Devin The integration is nearly complete, I'm just working on the final bits to attach/detach ports from nova instances. I did start out similar to the swift container code in the dashboard with my views and controllers within the django_openstack module but halfway through I changed my

Re: [Netstack] OpenStack Dashboard

2011-08-08 Thread Devin Carlen
Hey Dan, Thanks for the link! I'm excited to see that support for Quantum is being added to Dashboard. I did notice that a new module called django-quantum is added, but there is a slightly cleaner way to accomplish this without having to create a new top level module. I recommend looking at