On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 7:57 AM Glen Jarvis via Users <users(a)ovirt.org> wrote:
I am researching how to contribute to the oVirt community. I started here:
https://www.ovirt.org/community/
And, I immediately saw to sign up for this email address and...send us an email saying
how you would like to contribute. Visit our mailing lists page for other oVirt mailing
lists to sign up for.
My answers are: I want to be useful (and give more than I take). I can answer questions
on mailing lists, help troubleshoot, write ovirt.ovirt Ansible collections, roles and
custom modules. I am a seasoned Python programmer.
My background:
- Python programmer for 10+ years
- I write custom Ansible modules, roles, playbook, etc.
- Previous DBA for Informix (highly certified but who has heard of informix anymore).
Postgres and Informix are cousins (both offspring from Ingres)
- I have *some* rudimentary knowledge of Virtualization. However, I'm far from an
expert
- One of my favorite OS's is Qubes (an OS of virtual machines really)
- I do a lot of technical training (writing materials and facilitating classes)
- I work in an SRE / SysAd role at a large company that puts music in peoples ears
(I'm hoping to move some of this from less SysAd and more SRE when with some of this
oVirt stuff we're working on).
My intermediate skills
- I have bought a book on libvirt. But, it's still on my backlog. It feels that
I'm always sucking an ocean through a straw so I have to pick and choose what I read
next
- My second favorite OS is Ubuntu as my main desktop (Qubes on separate computer for
more secure stuff -- like crypto)
- I'm just starting to use Virtual Machine Manager to run other OSs on Ubuntu
My Oh-I-have-No-Idea skills:
- things like luns, iSCSI and the `vdsm-tool config-lvm-filter` are making me pull my
hair out.
I would like to know why "vdsm-tool config-lvm-filter" makes you pull
your hair out.
It was designed to help people configure their system correctly without
pulling their hair out trying to understand how lvm filter works, and avoid
the many wrong ways it can be used.
This is the reason I was frustrated enough to say "Let me join
this community so I can learn more how this architecture works."
- I work for a large company that has a RedHat support contract. We use RHV. I just
wrote up this long descriptive case of the problem, uploaded sosreports, added as much
detail as I could. But, it's crickets. If I knew more I could debug what was happening
more myself.
How did I do for an introduction?
Great!
Do you have some specific areas you would like to improve?
Nir