[ovirt-users] Get Involved with oVirt project! Winter edition

Hi, Have you got some free time and do you want to get involved in oVirt project? Do you like the idea of having fresh disk images of recent distribution in oVirt Glance repository? You can help us by testing existing online images ensuring they works with cloud-init or creating one yourself and report your success to devel(a)ovirt.org. We'll be happy to upload the images once these are ready. Do you like Debian and do you have some programming skill? Help us getting VDSM running on it! We started releasing highly experimental packages and it's a good time for giving them a try. You can follow the progress here: http://www.ovirt.org/VDSM_on_Debian Here are some bugs you can try to help with: Bug ID Status Whiteboard Target Milestone Summary 1120588 NEW docs ovirt-4.0.0 update log collector documentation 1120586 NEW docs ovirt-4.0.0 update iso uploader documentation 1120585 NEW docs ovirt-4.0.0 update image uploader documentation 1159784 NEW docs --- [RFE] Document when and where new features are available when upgrading cluster / datacenters 1074301 NEW infra ovirt-4.0.0 [RFE] ovirt-shell has no man page 1227019 NEW integration ovirt-3.6.2 Require sos >= 3.3 when available - ovirt sosreport plugin doesn't obfuscate password used in aaa extensions 1251965 NEW integration ovirt-3.6.2 Appliance based setup should default to using /var/tmp for unpacking the image 1156060 NEW integration ovirt-4.0.0 [text] engine admin password prompt consistency 1237132 NEW integration ovirt-4.0.0 [TEXT] New package listing of engine-setup when upgrading packages is not user friendly 1115059 ASSIGNED network ovirt-4.0.0 Incomplete error message when adding VNIC profile to running VM 772931 NEW reports --- [RFE] Reports should include the name of the oVirt engine Are you great at packaging software? Do you prefer a distribution which is currently unsupported by oVirt? Do you want to have packages included in your preferred distribution? Help getting oVirt ported there! Fedora: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2015-September/011426.html CentOS: https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Virtualization Gentoo: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OVirt Debian Jessie: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Debian_support_for_hosts Archlinux: http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_on_Arch_Linux OpenSUSE: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/Virtualization:oVirt Do you love "DevOps?", you count stable builds in jenkins ci while trying to fall a sleep? Then oVirt infra team is looking for you!, join the infra team and dive in to do the newest and coolest devops tools today! Here are some of our open tasks you can help with: https://ovirt-jira.atlassian.net/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=1&p... You can also help us by sharing how you use oVirt in your DevOps environment (please use [DevOps] in the subject) You don't have programming skills, not enough time for DevOps but you want still to contribute? Here are some bugs you can take care of, also without writing a line of code: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=classification%3Aovir... Do you prefer to test things? We have some test cases[5] you can try using nightly snapshots[6]. Do you want to contribute test cases? Most of the features[7] included in oVirt are missing a test case, you're welcome to contribute one! Do you want to contribute artworks? oVirt Live backgrounds and covers, release banners, stickers, .... Take a look at Fedora Artworks[9] as an example of what you can do Is this the first time you try to contribute to oVirt project? You can start from here [1][2]! You don't know gerrit very well? You can find some more docs here [3]. Any other question about development? Feel free to ask on devel(a)ovirt.org or on irc channel[4]. You don't really have time / skills for any development / documentation / testing related task? Spread the word[8]! Let us know you're getting involved, present yourself and tell us what you're going to do, you'll be welcome! [1] http://www.ovirt.org/Develop [2] http://www.ovirt.org/Working_with_oVirt_Gerrit [3] https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation [4] http://www.ovirt.org/Community [5] http://www.ovirt.org/Category:TestCase [6] http://www.ovirt.org/Install_nightly_snapshot [7] http://www.ovirt.org/Category:Feature [8] http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-much-longer-can-red-hats-ovirt-remain-co... [9] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork#Resources -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com