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nominations
by Carl Trieloff 06 Jul '12

06 Jul '12

We had said we would start the discussion around project nominations. Let me frame the discussion and then we can all jump in. Firstly, there are two types of nominations - Contributor - Board Let's make sure we have the criteria agreed and then we can do the nomination based on the criteria. For Contributor nominations I believe the criteria should be along these lines - Candidate should have contributed over a period and know to the community via lists/IRC/patches etc, and align with the project - Contributions should be considered substantive enough. (Contributions can be from patches, to doc, to helping out, doing infra etc) Notes: - As the project is newer, we can be more lax on the duration and size of contribution, and as the project matures we can raise the bar. This is common practice with many projects I've worked with or started. For Board nominations I believe the criteria should be along these lines - Individual should have become known in the project and respected by more than one sub-project - Individual should have contributed to the well being on the project beyond code/doc contributions. These 'beyond' contributions can be around help evangelise the project, running meet-ups, organizing events, soliciting additional strategic board members, looking after the well being of the project etc. - Individual should have contributed over a period of time. regards, Carl.

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Request to step down
by Jim Jagielski 05 Jul '12

05 Jul '12

I feel the need for a Mentor-as-board-member slot is no longer required. I therefore ask to step down, unless the rest of the board feels otherwise. -- Jim Jagielski | jimjag(a)redhat.com | 443-324-8390 (cell)

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Re: [Users] What are you looking for from oVirt?
by Andrew Cathrow 05 Jul '12

05 Jul '12

----- Original Message ----- > From: "Romain Vrignaud" <rvrignaud(a)gmail.com> > To: "Dave Neary" <dneary(a)redhat.com>, "arch" <arch(a)ovirt.org>, > "Users" <users(a)ovirt.org>, "board" <board(a)ovirt.org> > Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 4:13:32 AM > Subject: Re: [Users] What are you looking for from oVirt? > Hello, > I don't run currently any oVirt deployement in production but I have > a lab. > I used to run in production the old oVirt product (in rails). > My best wishes for the future release of oVirt are : > * GluserFS support as many of us > * Nova (OpenStack Hypervisor) driver support ( > http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/selecting-a… > ). > I choose oVirt because my first goal is to manage a virtualized > datacenter with OSS. But we begin to look at private cloud > deployement. > I think Aeolus would work with oVirt virtualization backend but AFAIK > it only support redhat based linux which is not possible for us as > we run > Aelous has a RHEVM/oVirt driver that works today. > If there are problems getting Aeolus working with oVirt we should dig > into it, there shouldn't be any issues. > almost only debian server except for virtualisation layer. So we > would like to deploy OpenStack but to rely on oVirt for KVM > hypervisors. > Out of interest what are you getting from OpenStack that you don't > get from oVirt > * Fully supported stateless ovirt-node > Regards, > Romain > 2012/6/28 Robert Middleswarth < robert(a)middleswarth.net > > > On 06/15/2012 06:23 AM, Dave Neary wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > On 06/13/2012 04:28 PM, Dave Neary wrote: > > > > > > > So - how are you using oVirt? Why did you choose it over > > > > alternatives? > > > > > > > > > > What do you like about it? and what would you like to see > > > > change, > > > > > > > > > > whether that is in terms of technical, process, or marketing > > > > changes? > > > > > > > > > > I'm here to help, but to do so I need your help first! > > > > > > > > > Thank you to all those who have replied, on and off list, so far. > > > For > > > those of you who sent me private messages, I'll be (anonymously) > > > collating your feedback and forwarding it on. > > > > > > The range of users who have replied so far includes: > > > > > > * Sysadmin at small web hosting business > > > > > > * Cost-sensitive IT department of an unrelated industry > > > > > That would be me. > > > > * Hosting provider specialising in HA > > > > > > * Running a private cloud > > > > > > * Test lab set-up considering for production deployment > > > > > Well no one should be crazy enough to go live with a product they > > haven't at least ran inside a testing lab. > > > > And the top features you've cited are: > > > > > > * Stateless hypervisor > > > > > > * Ability to migrate VMs > > > > > Number one reason I am working with oVirt > > > > * RHEL and KVM > > > > > We are a debian based org so changing over to the RHEL based OS's > > is > > more a pain then a benefit. KVM is still kinda young compared to > > both Xen / Vmware it seems to work well but there aren't as many > > os's covered by the vitro drivers and there seem to be more bugs / > > race conditions but that has been steadily changing as it has been > > getting more mature > > > > * Cost > > > > > > * The ability to have your preferred OS as both hypervisor and > > > guest > > > as a first class citizen > > > > > > * Aimed for data center use-case rather than cloud > > > > > This would be number 2 in the list. > > > > And the top gaps you've identified so far: > > > > > > * Insufficient resources (docs) to help with production > > > deployment > > > on > > > ovirt.org > > > > > > * Difficulty of configuration and getting started > > > > > > * You'd like to see a more diverse contributor community > > > > > > * Stability (unfortunately, I don't have any concrete examples of > > > this from the commenter) > > > > > > * History on resource usage in hypervisors and guests > > > > > > * Integration with Gluster > > > > > > * Offer choices of guest agents with other distributions than > > > RHEL > > > > > I could have created this list myself. I have hit pretty much every > > one of these limits in the last few months working with the > > project. > > 3.1 adds limited support for Gluster and ovirt seems to be more > > stable dispute F17 instability. > > > As for the question of stability the file storage system in 3.0 can > > be a bit unstable. If your NFS share disappears for a few mins the > > file system tends to go offline and wont reactivate. Not sure about > > iscsi or FC since I don't have access to those file systems. > > > > This is all giving me great insight into who's here - please keep > > > it > > > coming! > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Dave. > > > > > ______________________________ _________________ > > > Users mailing list > > > Users(a)ovirt.org > > > http://lists.ovirt.org/ mailman/listinfo/users > > _______________________________________________ > Arch mailing list > Arch(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

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Update on oVirt 3.1 Release Date
by Mike Burns 05 Jul '12

05 Jul '12

Due to some critical issues that are still outstanding, we've decided to delay the release of oVirt 3.1 by about 2 weeks. We are now targeting 2012-07-25 for the release. For details on the issues currently blocking the release, please see the bugs listed here[1]. Thanks The oVirt Team https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=822145&hide_resolved=1

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oVirt Weekly Meeting Minutes -- 2012-07-05
by Mike Burns 05 Jul '12

05 Jul '12

Minutes: http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2012/ovirt.2012-07-05-14.00.html Minutes (text): http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2012/ovirt.2012-07-05-14.00.txt Log: http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2012/ovirt.2012-07-05-14.00.log.html ========================= #ovirt: ovirt weekly sync ========================= Meeting started by mburns at 14:00:49 UTC. The full logs are available at http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2012/ovirt.2012-07-05-14.00.log.html . Meeting summary --------------- * roll call and agenda (mburns, 14:01:10) * Release Status (mburns, 14:06:00) * Current release date is July 9th (oschreib, 14:08:37) * 9 blocker currently for 3.1 release, 5 ON_QA, 2 MODIFIED and 2 POST (oschreib, 14:09:11) * LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=822145&hide_resolved=1 (oschreib, 14:09:16) * Blockers review (oschreib, 14:11:00) * vdsmd init script times out due to lengthy semanage operation (vdsm, POST) (oschreib, 14:11:16) * LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=832199 (oschreib, 14:11:24) * new patch should be reviewed soon (oschreib, 14:14:59) * 3.1: sshd daemon is not starting correctly after complete the installation of oVirt Node (ovirt-node, MODIFIED) (oschreib, 14:15:46) * LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=832517 (oschreib, 14:15:53) * verification blocks on BZ#837443 (oschreib, 14:17:41) * ovirt-node fails to register with ovirt-engine (vdsm, POST) (oschreib, 14:18:52) * LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=837443 (oschreib, 14:18:57) * patch in review (oschreib, 14:21:24) * 3.1: iptables blocking communication between node and engine (ovirt-node, MODIFIED) (oschreib, 14:21:56) * LINK: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=832539 (oschreib, 14:22:06) * blocks on BZ 837443 as well (oschreib, 14:24:48) * AGREED: release date will slip to 25 July (mburns, 14:34:46) * Workshops and Conferences (mburns, 14:36:02) * next workshop is August 28 in San Diego (mburns, 14:36:57) * release announcements (mburns, 14:42:14) * oschreib mburns to work with jbrooks to coordinate release announcements (mburns, 14:42:53) * ACTION: jclift and/or dneary to recruit RobertM to do feature screencasts (mburns, 14:46:22) Meeting ended at 14:48:44 UTC. Action Items ------------ * jclift and/or dneary to recruit RobertM to do feature screencasts Action Items, by person ----------------------- * dneary * jclift and/or dneary to recruit RobertM to do feature screencasts * jclift * jclift and/or dneary to recruit RobertM to do feature screencasts * **UNASSIGNED** * (none) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * oschreib (59) * mburns (54) * dneary (21) * dougsland (15) * jclift (14) * ovirtbot (5) * ilvovsky (4) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot

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oVirt Weekly Meeting - Delayed to 2012-07-05
by Ofer Schreiber 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

Since today is 04-July, all US people are un-available. The meeting will take place tomorrow, same place, same hour. Thanks, Ofer Schreiber oVirt Release Manager

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oVirt Weekly Meeting -- 2012-07-04
by Mike Burns 03 Jul '12

03 Jul '12

This mail will double as a question and call for agenda items. Since this Wednesday is 04-July, all US people will be un-available. Do we want to reschedule the meeting? Mike

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oVirt Workshop at LinuxCon North America
by Leslie Hawthorn 02 Jul '12

02 Jul '12

Hello everyone, Following up from this week's IRC meeting, we've asked the Linux Foundation to replicate the agenda from LinuxCon Japan on the LC North America site. That's in process, but they'd like us to get the names and bios of our confirmed speakers to them no later than next Wednesday, 27 June 2012. I'll leave it to everyone to wrangle about who would like to speak and cover particular sessions. My goal with this workshop is to have a more diverse speaker line up, so please do volunteer if you're attending LinuxCon North America and would be willing to lead a session(s). [0] - https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-japan/ovirt-gluster-work… Cheers, LH -- Leslie Hawthorn Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards @ Red Hat identi.ca/lh twitter.com/lhawthorn

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Re: [Users] What are you looking for from oVirt?
by Itamar Heim 29 Jun '12

29 Jun '12

On 06/29/2012 06:15 PM, Nathan Stratton wrote: > I must admit the first part of managing GlusterFS with 3.3 works very > well out of the box on oVirt 3.1. > > Turn on GlusterFS in the cluster > Add your nodes > Manually add the peers in Gluster > Edit /etc/nfsmount.conf and set Defaultproto=tcp and Defaultvers=3 > Create your gluster volume > Start the volume > Mount it in on one of your nodes in say /mnt > chown 36.36 /mnt > > The only problem now is that you have to now use the volume as a NFS > server. why not as posixfs?

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Re: storage domain recovery (was [Users] What are you looking for from oVirt?)
by Itamar Heim 28 Jun '12

28 Jun '12

On 06/28/2012 02:57 AM, Robert Middleswarth wrote: > > As for the question of stability the file storage system in 3.0 can be a > bit unstable. If your NFS share disappears for a few mins the file > system tends to go offline and wont reactivate. Not sure about iscsi or > FC since I don't have access to those file systems. 3.1 adds distinction between a storage domain going down due to an error or admin maintaining it. in case of an error, there is a new recovery mechanism in 3.1 which should improve this. Itamar

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