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[Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Jesse Andrews <anotherjesse@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We are excited about the awesome work done by everyone to make E3 a
> feature freeze.  Now it is time to roll up our sleeves.

w00t

I will be down in Austin participating in the Bug Squash Day with Anne
G and others :)

> To support the stabilization, here is what our team is focusing on.
> Please help by running OpenStack and reporting bugs, submitting
> patches, reviewing code, writing docs :)
>
> Bug Squash Day
> ------------------------
>
> We are doing a number of things in preparation for the Bug Squash day
> on Thursday.
>
> * Triaging bugs - hopefully all bugs will have a priority by Thursday
> * Tagging bugs with low-hanging-fruit if we feel that they are
> relatively easy fixes - This will give the folks that are new to the
> code base a place to get their feet wet:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bugs?field.tag=low-hanging-fruit

Same goes for Glance:

 https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bugs?field.tag=low-hanging-fruit

I'll add more low-hanging-fruit tags in the next couple days.

> * Preparing step-by-step documentation for installing a dev
> environment, getting set up with the CLA and gerrit, assigning
> yourself a bug and fixing it:
> http://wiki.openstack.org/BugSquashingDay

Awesome.

> * Creating OpenStack VMs for people to use at the SF Bug Squash Day
> Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/48362422/
>
> Tempest & DevStack
> --------------------------------
>
> Like peanut butter and (dark) chocolate - tempest and devstack go
> great together.  Jay Pipes shared a presentation about getting started
> with the OpenStack QA [1] using both of the projects together.
>
> As we go towards Essex release, we hope that everyone will help with
> testing!  Adding support to devstack for features you added/need &
> adding integration tests to Tempest.  DevStack has a collection of
> "exercises" which exercise the official CLI tools against your
> deployment, but for depth of tests we recommend working with tempest
> project.

Thank you very much for the shout-out. OpenStack QA team meets
Wednesday at 16:00 UTC. We will make sure that all bugs reports are
prioritized and that the status of all open bugs are up to date before
Thursday.

> To encourage these this we will be updating devstack's integration
> with tempest and working on adding/reviewing tests to tempest.
>
> * Jay Pipes' Slides:
> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1M3XhAco_0u7NZQn3Gz53z9VOHHrkQBzEs5gt43ZvhOc/edit
> * DevStack + Jenkins:
> https://github.com/openstack-dev/devstack/blob/master/tools/jenkins/README.md
>
> Progress Towards Finalizing Keystone Integration
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Keystone was a late addition in Diablo and there is still work being
> done to finish integrating other OpenStack projects:
>
> * Continued work on Swift integration and S3 support
> * Remove nova's deprecated auth (internal user system prior to keystone)
> * Update nova's deprecated auth migration to use keystone client
> * Supporting merge proposal of the keystone rewrite
>
> CLI Auth
> -------------
>
> Before Essex, setting up a system to work with OpenStack via the CLI
> tools was confusing for as user (especially as our unified auth system
> was just being integrated).  For Essex, all projects are working
> towards a common method for specifying credentials & endpoints.
>
> * Ensure support in all official openstack clients
> * Update README/docs of clients
> * Update openstack project documentation / manuals
> * Update openrc generation by dashboard
>
> CLI Auth Blueprint: http://wiki.openstack.org/CLIAuth
> Horizon openrc generation: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/891851/horizon-openrc.png
>
> ---
>
> If any other teams have big plans for E4, it would be great to hear them.
>
> Thanks!
> Jesse Andrews on behalf of the entire Rackspace Cloud Builders team
>
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