Coming (Very) Soon - New ovirt.org Website & Deprecated Wiki
by Mikey Ariel
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In the past months we've been working on upgrading the oVirt project
infrastructure, to better support the community contributions.
One of the main platforms for our user documentation, release
management content, and community content has been the MediaWiki site
that you all know as ovirt.org. Most of us are familiar with the wiki
site format, with all its advantages and disadvantages.
After several years of serving the community, I'm happy to announce
that we are very near to completing a full upgrade of the website
infrastructure from a wiki site to a static site, source-controlled on
GitHub and authored in Markdown.
This email is the pre-launch announcement, as we are reaching the
final stages of the migration, and there are a few actions that might
affect your work on website content in the meantime.
Why migrate the website
=======================
As mentioned, wiki sites provide an open and flexible content editing
platform. Unfortunately, as the site grows the content becomes quite
difficult to manage and curate, resulting in lots of obsolete,
outdated, and incorrect information.
By moving to a source-controlled repository and implementing GitHub's
contribution workflow, we strive to ease the work of maintaining an
up-to-date content site, employ a peer-review process for changes, and
standardize the authoring markup language to lower the contribution
barrier.
The Middleman framework (Ruby-based static site generator) was chosen
based on observing successful implementation of other open-source
community websites, such as OpenStack RDO, Project Atomic, and Gluster.
What we did so far
==================
When we started the migration, our Web design team exported all of the
wiki content from the old website and converted it to MD files. They
also set up the website config flow, auto-deploy, and upgraded the
look-and-feel of the website.
We then initiated a content review effort as well as a UX review for
the new website in a smaller forum, which caught most of the critical
issues with the new website and helped us get the new format to a
place where we can release the website in a near-GA/public-beta format.
Yesterday (Wednesday Feb 17) we exported the website one more time and
currently we're running a diff on all the files that changed since the
initial export was done, to make sure we grab all the updates and the
latest content before we launch the new website.
What is about to happen
=======================
Today we are initiating a **wiki freeze**, which means the old
MediaWiki site will become read-only. This is to ensure that all of
our diff scripts reflect the most current state of the content on the
website, and that we don't lose any content in the transition.
Barring any unexpected blockers, we will port the ovirt.org domain to
point to the new website and open the new website for contributions on
**Monday February 22** or earlier.
What do you need to do right now
================================
If you have any wiki pages that you're actively editing, please don't
save them to the old MediaWiki site, and hold onto your pending
changes until we send the happy launch email.
We will also include instructions on how to contribute/edit/add
content to the new website, but in general the workflow will be
aligned with the standard GitHub best practices
(clone-edit-commit-pullrequest), so you can utilize all of the git
commands that you already know or work directly within the GitHub web
editor.
I'd like to thank all of the people who were involved with this
migration so far, ovirt.org is a big website with lots of content and
it was no small task to upgrade it.
Please feel free to ping me on- or off-list if you have any questions
about the next steps, and expect a happy launch email soon!
Cheers,
Mikey
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Mikey Ariel
Community Lead, oVirt
www.ovirt.org
"To be is to do" (Socrates)
"To do is to be" (Jean-Paul Sartre)
"Do be do be do" (Frank Sinatra)
Mobile: +420-702-131-141
IRC: mariel / thatdocslady
Twitter: @ThatDocsLady
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8 years, 9 months
[ANN] oVirt 3.6.4 First Release Candidate is now available for testing
by Sandro Bonazzola
The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the First
Release Candidate of oVirt 3.6.4 for testing, as of March 16th, 2016
This release is available now for:
* Fedora 22
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7
* CentOS Linux 6.7 (or similar)
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 or later
* CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.2 or later
This release supports Hypervisor Hosts running:
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 or later
* CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.2 or later
* Fedora 22
This release is also available with experimental support for:
* Debian 8.3 Jessie
This release candidate includes the following updated packages:
- ovirt-engine
- vdsm
- ovirt-hosted-engine-ha
- ovirt-hosted-engine-setup
See the release notes [1] for installation / upgrade instructions and a
list of new features and bugs fixed.
Notes:
* A new oVirt Live ISO is already available [2].
* Mirrors[3] might need up to one day to synchronize.
Additional Resources:
* Read more about the oVirt 3.6.3 release highlights:
http://www.ovirt.org/release/3.6.4/
* Get more oVirt Project updates on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ovirt
* Check out the latest project news on the oVirt blog:
http://www.ovirt.org/blog/
[1] http://www.ovirt.org/release/3.6.4/
[2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.6-pre/iso/
[3] http://www.ovirt.org/Repository_mirrors#Current_mirrors
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Sandro Bonazzola
Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration.
See how it works at redhat.com
8 years, 9 months
Welcome: New ovirt.org website!
by Mikey Ariel
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Following yesterday's pre-launch email[1], I'm happy to announce that
the new ovirt.org[2] website is now live in **public beta** and
available for community review.
All the information in this email is also available in the first blog
post of our shiny new oVirt blog[3]. Read on for information about new
features, known issues, and a call for reviews.
The old MediaWiki site is still available in read-only[4], and will be
taken offline on **March 1, 2016**. This is to ensure that you can
compare pages and review migrated content.
What's New
==========
The new Website is full of improvements and enhancements, check out
these highlights:
* Source content is now formatted in Markdown instead of MediaWiki.
This means that you can create and edit documentation, blog posts, and
feature pages with the same Markdown syntax you know.
* The Website is deployed with Middleman and stored on GitHub. This
means that you can make changes to content with the same GitHub
contribution workflow that you know (fork, clone, edit, commit, submit
pull request). We even have an "Edit this page on GitHub" link at the
bottom of every page!
* New layout and design, from breadcrumbs to sidebards and an upgraded
landing page. (This is still WIP, please see known issues.)
* Automatic redirects from the old MediaWiki site. This means that if
the wiki page exists in the new website, previously-released URLs will
redirect to that page. If the page was removed, the Search page will
open with the page title auto-filled in the search box.
* Hierarchical content structure. This means that instead of flat
Wiki-style files, the deployed Website reflects an organized source
repo with content sorted into directories and sub-directories.
* Official oVirt blog! Our new blog welcomes contributions. This means
that if you solved a problem with oVirt, want to share your oVirt
story, or describe a cool integration, you can submit a pull request
with a blog post and we will provide editorial reviews and help
publish your posts.
* Standardized contribution process. The GitHub repo now includes a
README.md[5] file that you can use to learn about how to add and edit
content on the website. We welcome pull requests!
Known Issues
============
Despite our best efforts, there are still a few kinks with the new
website that you should be aware of:
* Attempting to navigate to ovirt.org (without www.) leads to a
redirect loop. We have a ticket open with OpenShift, our hosting
service to fix this.
* Only http is available. We also have a ticket with OpenShift to add
SSL and enable https.
* Home page and Download page are still being upgraded by our UX
experts, expect some cool new changes soon!
* Feature pages look-and-feel is still under construction. You can
still edit and push feature pages as usual.
What's Next
===========
Even though the Website is live, the work is hardly over. We'd like to
ask for your help in:
* Reviewing content for anything obsolete or outdated (each page in
the new website includes a header toolbar with metadata from the
original wiki page for your convenience)
* Submitting blog posts or any other content that you wish to share
with the oVirt community
* Reporting bugs and proposing enhancements, for example broken links
or missing pages
We hope you will enjoy the new oVirt Website, looking forward to your
feedback and contributions!
[1] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2016-February/012372.html
[2] http://www.ovirt.org/
[3] http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/02/welcome-to-new-ovirt-site/
[4] http://old.ovirt.org/Home
[5] https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-site/blob/master/README.md
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Mikey Ariel
Community Lead, oVirt
www.ovirt.org
"To be is to do" (Socrates)
"To do is to be" (Jean-Paul Sartre)
"Do be do be do" (Frank Sinatra)
Mobile: +420-702-131-141
IRC: mariel / thatdocslady
Twitter: @ThatDocsLady
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8 years, 9 months
oVirt 3.6.4 RC1 build starting
by Rafael Martins
Fyi oVirt products maintainers,
An oVirt build for an official release is going to start right now.
If you're a maintainer for any of the projects included in oVirt distribution and you have changes in your package ready to be released please:
- bump version and release to be GA ready
- tag your release within git (implies a GitHub Release to be automatically created)
- build your packages within jenkins / koji / copr / whatever
- verify all bugs on MODIFIED have target release and target milestone set.
Thanks, Rafael
8 years, 9 months
oVirt 3.6.4 RC1 merge / tag / bugzilla reminder
by Rafael Martins
All stable branch maintainers, please make sure to merge all relevant open bugs until Tuesday morning 11:00 AM TLV time.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=target_milestone%3A3....
Every package build (i.e oVirt product) - please make sure every bug in MODIFIED has the right Target Release and Target Milestone.
A Target release should state the version of the package you're building and should include the same version you used for the tag you just used for this build. (e.g. for ovirt-engine, tag: ovirt-engine-3.6.4, tr: 3.6.4)
Thanks,
Rafael Martins
8 years, 9 months
oVirt Integration Development Team weekly status - 2016-03-14
by Sandro Bonazzola
- *oVirt Integration Development Team weekly status - 2016-03-14*
-
- oVirt integration open bugs:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=classification%3Aovir...
- 4.0
- Adapting projects using ovirt-engine-sdk to v3 comaptibility layer
- Migrating ovirt-log-collector to SDK 4 being python3 unavailable on v3
compatibility layer.
- Rebasing oVirt Live master on new VDSM API
- Rebasing Hosted Engine on new VDSM API
- Dropped ovirt-host-deploy-offline package, not used anymore by node
and ovirt live
- oVirt Host Deploy now has pt_BR localization (thanks to *Wesley Morais
de Oliveira*)
- Infra:
- Fixed several jenkins jobs
- Disabled / removed all 3.5 jenkins jobs
- CentOS Virt SIG:
- 3.6.3 rpms have been released within Virt SIG repos
- Wki has been updated with references to the new web site.
- LINK: Roadmap and packages list:
http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Virtualization/Roadmap
- LINK: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/oVirt
- Meeting minutes will be available on
https://www.centos.org/minutes/2016/
- *Team updates*
- Didi
- Worked on ovirt-host-deploy for NGN support
- Worked on several bugs
- Working on OTOPI for 4.0 / NGN
- Ido:
- getting familiar with Hosted engine installation
- getting familiar with Lago installation
- Lev:
- Working on 3.6.5 this week
- Rafael:
- Added Fedora 23 support to ovirt-log-collector
- Added SDK4 support to packages maintained by integration
- Working to split engine-backup from ovirt-engine-tools package
- Sandro:
- Worked on oVirt Jenkins
- Worked on ovirt-release
- Worked on ovirt-host-deploy (dropped offline package)
- Stabilized oVirt master (SDK and API rebase)
- Simone:
- Worked hosted-engine bugs for 3.6.4
- Fixing an issue adding an hosted-engine host on a system started on 3.4
- Looking at network stuff for hosted-engine on master
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Sandro Bonazzola
Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration.
See how it works at redhat.com
8 years, 9 months
Cockpit-oVirt plugin
by Marek Libra
I'm pleased to announce initial version of new oVirt plugin for Cockpit, which is recently a proposed feature for oVirt 4.0.
The oVirt Wiki Feature can be found at [3].
Sources and README file can be found on the github [1].
Up-to-date issue list is at [2] (includes planed enhancements)
Please refer the README file for install instructions, so far tested on Centos 7 (minimal).
The plugin will be distributed as an rpm in the future and is meant as an optional add-on to oVirt.
Main focus is on
- troubleshooting when accessibility/functionality of webadmin is limited
- easy-to-use tool for VM-centric host monitoring/administration
- potential integration point with oVirt on UI level
- easy to use, so for small setups the preferred choice with an option to "upgrade" to full oVirt later
The plugin or its parts can be used as standalone same as embedded into other UIs, like drill-down from webadmin or ManageIQ for more details or fine-tuning.
The plugin has dependency on VDSM.
Please note, since there was a VDSM patch needed, recent master is required (see README in the source).
Dependency on oVirt's engine is optional - when accessible then additional plugin functionality is available.
Please note, the plugin is in early development phase showing basic concept.
Marek
------------
Links:
[1] Sources: https://github.com/mareklibra/cockpit-ovirt/
[2] Issue tracker: https://github.com/mareklibra/cockpit-ovirt/issues
[3] Wiki Proposed Feature page is in review, recent unmerged version:
https://github.com/mareklibra/ovirt-site/blob/cockpit-ovirt-plugin/source...
Once merged, screenshots will be available.
8 years, 9 months
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by Bryan Hughes
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