Re: [ovirt-devel] Interest in contributing to oVirt

[removed the users mailing list, devel is enough] On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 7:45 PM, Konrad Djimeli <djkonro35(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hello Yaniv, > > Thanks very much for the response. I am currently trying to develop a > proposal for this project but I have not yet been able to successfully > setup oVirt. I just realized I could not install the oVirt-engine an > Ubuntu 14, so I am currently trying to download and install Fedora 23, > where I intend to setup the oVirt-engine. I would then use another > machine with Ubuntu for the host. > I would warmly suggest an EL7 (such as CentOS 7.3) operating system. > > Please with respect to this project I would like to know if I am also > required compile and install the source code for oVirt-engine or do I > only need to build and install ovirt4cli. > You don't need to compile, just have an installed oVirt - the pointers below should allow you to easily set it up in a virtual machines (on Fedora 25 or CentOS 7.3 for example) and then you can develop ovirt4cli on the host (that's what I did initially). Let me know if you face any issues I can help you with with setting up Lago or ovirt-system-tests on your host. Y. > > > Thanks > Konrad > > On 17 March 2017 at 20:26, Yaniv Kaul <ykaul(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > Hi Konrad, > > > > I'm very happy to hear that and wish you good luck with the project. > > > > I think it'd be best if you can begin with familiarizing yourself with > > oVirt. > > If you have few computers around, it should be fairly easy to set it > up. If > > you have a single computer, you can set up Lago[1] and > ovirt-system-test[2] > > to bring up an environment as well. > > > > The (very basic) code for ovirt4cli is available on my github[3] - I > have > > just created a very basic framework as a proof of concept - feel free to > > fork and modify it. Specifically, I think we should re-work it to share > more > > code with our Ansible code[4]. > > > > Let me know if there's anything I can help you with in the project! > > Y. > > > > [1] http://lago.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ > > [2] http://ovirt-system-tests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ > > [3] https://github.com/mykaul/ovirt4cli > > [4] > > https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/ > module_utils/ovirt.py > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 9:06 AM, Konrad Djimeli <djkonro35(a)gmail.com&gt; > wrote: > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> My name is Konrad Djimeli a third year Computer Science Student at the > >> University of Buea, Cameroon. I am interested in contributing to oVirt > >> and I would like to work on the Google Summer of Code project > >> "ovirt4cli". I am very comfortable working with Python and I have > >> experience working with web services like REST. > >> > >> Please I would appreciate any suggestion on how to get started and to > >> better familiarize myself with the project. > >> > >> > >> Thanks > >> Konrad > >> http://djimeli.me/ > > > > >