[openstack-dev] [mistral] Proposing Lingxian Kong as a core reviewer

2015-06-22 Thread W Chan
+1 Lingxian, keep up with the good work. :D __ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Proposal for the Resume Feature

2015-06-16 Thread W Chan
Here's the etherpad link. I replied to the comments/feedbacks there. Please feel free to continue the conversation there. https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/mistral-resume __ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Proposal for the Resume Feature

2015-06-15 Thread W Chan
I want to continue the discussion on the workflow resume feature. Resuming from our last conversation @ http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-March/060265.html. I don't think we should limit how users resume. There may be different possible scenarios. User can fix the

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Proposal for the Resume Feature

2015-06-15 Thread W Chan
Resending to see if this fixes the formatting for outlines below. I want to continue the discussion on the workflow resume feature. Resuming from our last conversation @ http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-March/060265.html. I don't think we should limit how users resume.

[openstack-dev] [Mistral] Propose Winson Chan m4dcoder for core team

2015-04-08 Thread W Chan
Mistral Team and Friends, Thank you for giving me the opportunity to become core member of the Mistral team. I have an absolute blast developing and using Mistral. I'm happy with the current progress and direction that Mistral is heading. I look forward to many more collaborations and

[openstack-dev] [Mistral] Proposal for the Resume Feature

2015-03-26 Thread W Chan
We assume WF is in paused/errored state when 1) user manually pause the WF, 2) pause is specified on transition (on-condition(s) such as on-error), and 3) task errored. The resume feature will support the following use cases. 1) User resumes WF from manual pause. 2) In the case of task failure,

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Changing expression delimiters in Mistral DSL

2015-02-18 Thread W Chan
As a user of Mistral pretty regularly these days, I certainly prefers % %. I agree with the other comments on devops familiarity. And looking this from another angle, it's certainly easier to type % % then the other options, especially if you have to do this over and over again. LOL Although, I

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Converging discussions on WF context and WF/task/action inputs

2014-12-26 Thread W Chan
What you’re saying is that whatever is under “$.env” is just the exact same environment that we passed when we started the workflow? If yes then it definitely makes sense to me (it just allows to explicitly access environment, not through the implicit variable lookup). Please confirm. Yes.

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Converging discussions on WF context and WF/task/action inputs

2014-12-24 Thread W Chan
Trying to clarify a few things... * 2) Retuning to first example: ** ... ** action: std.sql conn_str={$.env.conn_str} query={$.query} ** ... ** $.env - is it a name of environment or it will be a registered syntax to getting access to values from env ? * I was actually thinking the environment

[openstack-dev] [Mistral] Converging discussions on WF context and WF/task/action inputs

2014-12-23 Thread W Chan
After some online discussions with Renat, the following is a revision of the proposal to address the following related blueprints. * https://blueprints.launchpad.net/mistral/+spec/mistral-execution-environment * https://blueprints.launchpad.net/mistral/+spec/mistral-global-context *

[openstack-dev] [Mistral] ActionProvider

2014-12-16 Thread W Chan
Renat, We want to introduce the concept of an ActionProvider to Mistral. We are thinking that with an ActionProvider, a third party system can extend Mistral with it's own action catalog and set of dedicated and specialized action executors. The ActionProvider will return it's own list of

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Global Context and Execution Environment

2014-12-12 Thread W Chan
Renat, Dmitri, On supplying the global context into the workflow execution... In addition to Renat's proposal, I have a few here. 1) Pass them implicitly in start_workflow as another kwargs in the **params. But on thinking, we should probably make global context explicitly defined in the WF

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Action context passed to all action executions by default

2014-12-11 Thread W Chan
Renat, Here's the blueprint. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/mistral/+spec/mistral-runtime-context I'm proposing to add *args and **kwargs to the __init__ methods of all actions. The action context can be passed as a dict in the kwargs. The global context and the env context can be provided

[openstack-dev] [Mistral] Global Context and Execution Environment

2014-12-09 Thread W Chan
Nikolay, Regarding whether the execution environment BP is the same as this global context BP, I think the difference is in the scope of the variables. The global context that I'm proposing is provided to the workflow at execution and is only relevant to this execution. For example, some

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Event Subscription

2014-12-08 Thread W Chan
Renat, On sending events to an exchange, I mean an exchange on the transport (i.e. rabbitMQ exchange https://www.rabbitmq.com/tutorials/amqp-concepts.html). On implementation we can probably explore the notification feature in oslo.messaging. But on second thought, this would limit the

[openstack-dev] [Mistral] Action context passed to all action executions by default

2014-12-08 Thread W Chan
Renat, Is there any reason why Mistral do not pass action context such as workflow ID, execution ID, task ID, and etc to all of the action executions? I think it makes a lot of sense for that information to be made available by default. The action can then decide what to do with the

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Event Subscription

2014-12-02 Thread W Chan
Renat, I agree with the two methods you proposed. On processing the events, I was thinking a separate entity. But you gave me an idea, how about a system action for publishing the events that the current executors can run? Alternately, instead of making HTTP calls, what do you think if mistral

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Event Subscription

2014-12-01 Thread W Chan
Renat, Alternately, what do you think if mistral just post the events to given exchange(s) on the same transport backend and let the subscribers decide how to consume the events (i.e post to webhook, etc.) from these exchanges? This will simplify implementation somewhat. The engine can just

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Event Subscription

2014-11-12 Thread W Chan
Nikolay, You're right. We will need to store the events in order to re-publish. How about a separate Event model? The events are written to the DB by the same worker that publishes the event. The retention policy for these events is then managed by a config option. Winson

[openstack-dev] [Mistral] Event Subscription

2014-11-11 Thread W Chan
Regarding blueprint to register event listeners to notify client applications on state changes ( https://blueprints.launchpad.net/mistral/+spec/mistral-event-listeners-http), I want to propose the following. 1. Refer this feature as event subscription instead of callback 2. Event subscription

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Workflow on-finish

2014-08-28 Thread W Chan
Akhmerov @ Mirantis Inc. On 28 Aug 2014, at 06:17, W Chan m4d.co...@gmail.com wrote: Renat, It will be helpful to perform a callback on completion of the async workflow. Can we add on-finish to the workflow spec and when workflow completes, runs task(s) defined in the on-finish section

[openstack-dev] [Mistral] Workflow on-finish

2014-08-27 Thread W Chan
Renat, It will be helpful to perform a callback on completion of the async workflow. Can we add on-finish to the workflow spec and when workflow completes, runs task(s) defined in the on-finish section of the spec? This will allow the workflow author to define how the callback is to be done.

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Cleaning up configuration settings

2014-06-17 Thread W Chan
, at 04:26, W Chan m4d.co...@gmail.com wrote: Is there an existing unit test for testing enabling keystone middleware in pecan (setting cfg.CONF.pecan.auth_enable = True)? I don't seem to find one. If there's one, it's not obvious. Can someone kindly point me to it? On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Refine engine - executor protocol

2014-06-12 Thread W Chan
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 9:12 AM, W Chan m4d.co...@gmail.com wrote: Renat, Regarding blueprint https://blueprints.launchpad.net/mistral/+spec/mistral-engine-executor-protocol, can you clarify what it means by worker parallelism and engine-executor parallelism? Currently, the engine

[openstack-dev] [Mistral] Refine engine - executor protocol

2014-06-06 Thread W Chan
Renat, Regarding blueprint https://blueprints.launchpad.net/mistral/+spec/mistral-engine-executor-protocol, can you clarify what it means by worker parallelism and engine-executor parallelism? Currently, the engine and executor are launched with the eventlet driver in oslo.messaging. Once a

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Cleaning up configuration settings

2014-05-30 Thread W Chan
Is there an existing unit test for testing enabling keystone middleware in pecan (setting cfg.CONF.pecan.auth_enable = True)? I don't seem to find one. If there's one, it's not obvious. Can someone kindly point me to it? On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:53 AM, W Chan m4d.co...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Cleaning up configuration settings

2014-05-28 Thread W Chan
- Hash: SHA1 On 17/05/14 02:48, W Chan wrote: Regarding config opts for keystone, the keystoneclient middleware already registers the opts at https://github.com/openstack/python-keystoneclient/blob/master/keystoneclient/middleware/auth_token.py#L325 under a keystone_authtoken group

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Cleaning up configuration settings

2014-05-16 Thread W Chan
at 1:13 PM, W Chan m4d.co...@gmail.com wrote: Currently, the various configurations are registered in ./mistral/config.py. The configurations are registered when mistral.config is referenced. Given the way the code is written, PEP8 throws referenced but not used error if mistral.config

[openstack-dev] [Mistral] Cleaning up configuration settings

2014-05-15 Thread W Chan
Currently, the various configurations are registered in ./mistral/config.py. The configurations are registered when mistral.config is referenced. Given the way the code is written, PEP8 throws referenced but not used error if mistral.config is referenced but not called in the module. In various

[openstack-dev] [Mistral] task update at end of handle_task in executor

2014-03-26 Thread W Chan
Regarding https://github.com/stackforge/mistral/blob/master/mistral/engine/scalable/executor/server.py#L123, should the status be set to SUCCESS instead of RUNNING? If not, can someone clarify why the task should remain RUNNING? Thanks. Winson ___

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] task update at end of handle_task in executor

2014-03-26 Thread W Chan
/q5lps2h Nicolay, any better explanation? DZ On Mar 26, 2014, at 6:20 PM, W Chan m4d.co...@gmail.com wrote: Regarding https://github.com/stackforge/mistral/blob/master/mistral/engine/scalable/executor/server.py#L123, should the status be set to SUCCESS instead of RUNNING? If not, can someone

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Local vs. Scalable Engine

2014-03-24 Thread W Chan
. On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Renat Akhmerov rakhme...@mirantis.comwrote: Alright, thanks Winson! Team, please review. Renat Akhmerov @ Mirantis Inc. On 21 Mar 2014, at 06:43, W Chan m4d.co...@gmail.com wrote: I submitted a rough draft for review @ https://review.openstack.org/#/c/81941

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Local vs. Scalable Engine

2014-03-20 Thread W Chan
it? Or I may misunderstand what you're trying to do... DZ PS: can you generate and update mistral.config.example to include new oslo messaging options? I forgot to mention it on review on time. On Mar 13, 2014, at 11:15 AM, W Chan m4d.co...@gmail.com wrote: On the transport variable

Re: [openstack-dev] [openstack][Mistral] Adding new core reviewers

2014-03-20 Thread W Chan
Congratulation to the new core reviewers! On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:54 PM, Renat Akhmerov rakhme...@mirantis.comwrote: Thanks, guys! Done. On 20 Mar 2014, at 02:28, Timur Nurlygayanov tnurlygaya...@mirantis.com wrote: Also, in the future, we can join Kirill Izotov to the core team

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral][TaskFlow] Long running actions

2014-03-20 Thread W Chan
Can the long running task be handled by putting the target task in the workflow in a persisted state until either an event triggers it or timeout occurs? An event (human approval or trigger from an external system) sent to the transport will rejuvenate the task. The timeout is configurable by

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Local vs. Scalable Engine

2014-03-13 Thread W Chan
://github.com/stackforge/mistral/blob/master/mistral/cmd/api.py#L50and https://github.com/stackforge/mistral/blob/master/mistral/api/app.py#L44. Do you have any suggestion? Thanks. On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Renat Akhmerov rakhme...@mirantis.comwrote: On 13 Mar 2014, at 10:40, W Chan

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Local vs. Scalable Engine

2014-03-12 Thread W Chan
:37, W Chan m4d.co...@gmail.com wrote: Here're the proposed changes. 1) Rewrite the launch script to be more generic which contains option to launch all components (i.e. API, engine, executor) on the same process but over separate threads or launch each individually. You mentioned

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Local vs. Scalable Engine

2014-03-11 Thread W Chan
I want to propose the following changes to implement the local executor and removal of the local engine. As mentioned before, oslo.messaging includes a fake driver that uses a simple queue. An example in the use of this fake driver is demonstrated in test_executor. The use of the fake driver

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Porting executor and engine to oslo.messaging

2014-02-28 Thread W Chan
Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Porting executor and engine to oslo.messaging Looks good. Thanks, Winson! Renat, What do you think? On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:00 AM, W Chan m4d.co...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Porting executor and engine to oslo.messaging

2014-02-26 Thread W Chan
RabbitMQ? Renat Akhmerov @ Mirantis Inc. On 26 Feb 2014, at 14:30, Nikolay Makhotkin nmakhot...@mirantis.com wrote: Looks good. Thanks, Winson! Renat, What do you think? On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:00 AM, W Chan m4d.co...@gmail.com wrote: The following link is the google doc

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Local vs. Scalable Engine

2014-02-25 Thread W Chan
...@mirantis.com wrote: On 25 Feb 2014, at 07:12, W Chan m4d.co...@gmail.com wrote: As I understand, the local engine runs the task immediately whereas the scalable engine sends it over the message queue to one or more executors. Correct. Note: that local is confusing here, in process

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Porting executor and engine to oslo.messaging

2014-02-25 Thread W Chan
through other executor/engine communications. We talked about executor communicating to engine over 3 channels (DB, REST, RabbitMQ) which I wasn't happy about ;) and put it off for some time. May be it can be rationalized as part of your design. DZ. On Feb 24, 2014, at 11:21 AM, W Chan m4d.co

Re: [openstack-dev] [Mistral] Porting executor and engine to oslo.messaging

2014-02-25 Thread W Chan
PM, Renat Akhmerov rakhme...@mirantis.comwrote: On 25 Feb 2014, at 02:21, W Chan m4d.co...@gmail.com wrote: Renat, Regarding your comments on change https://review.openstack.org/#/c/75609/, I don't think the port to oslo.messaging is just a swap from pika to oslo.messaging. OpenStack

[openstack-dev] [Mistral] Porting executor and engine to oslo.messaging

2014-02-24 Thread W Chan
Renat, Regarding your comments on change https://review.openstack.org/#/c/75609/, I don't think the port to oslo.messaging is just a swap from pika to oslo.messaging. OpenStack services as I understand is usually implemented as an RPC client/server over a messaging transport. Sync vs async

[openstack-dev] [Mistral] Local vs. Scalable Engine

2014-02-24 Thread W Chan
As I understand, the local engine runs the task immediately whereas the scalable engine sends it over the message queue to one or more executors. In what circumstances would we see a Mistral user using a local engine (other than testing) instead of the scalable engine? If we are keeping the

[openstack-dev] [Mistral] Plugin architecture for custom actions?

2014-02-24 Thread W Chan
Will Mistral be supporting custom actions developed by users? If so, should the Actions module be refactored to individual plugins with a dynamic process for action type mapping/lookup? Thanks. Winson ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list