[ovirt-announce] Get Involved with the oVirt Project! Spring 2017 Edition

[Sandro Bonazzola]

Hi,

Got some time to spare? Join us on the oVirt project!

oVirt is a feature rich server virtualization management system with
advanced capabilities. It also provides a crucial venue for user and
developer cooperation, and is the first truly open and comprehensive data
center virtualization management initiative.

If you are new to oVirt, we recommend that you visit the develop
<https://www.ovirt.org/develop/> page to learn more about the project, and
the working with Gerrit
<https://www.ovirt.org/develop/dev-process/working-with-gerrit/> page for
more about our code review system. If you haven’t worked with Gerrit
before, we recommend you visit the introduction to Gerrit
<https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation> page.

On our community page <https://www.ovirt.org/community/> you’ll discover
the many ways in which you can contribute to the project, even without
programming skills.

More suggestions? Below you’ll find other ways in which you can contribute
to the oVirt project.

Keep ‘em Fresh

Like the idea of having fresh disk images of your favorite distribution in
the oVirt Glance repository? You can help in two ways: First, test existing
online images to ensure that they work with cloud-init. Second, create an
online image and report your success to devel at ovirt.org. We’ll be happy to
upload the images once they are ready.


Get Vdsm Running on Debian

If you like Debian and have programming or packaging skills, you can help
with the ongoing effort to get VDSM running on Debian
<https://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/debian-support-for-hosts/>.


All the current work on Debian (VDSM and related packages) can be found in
the Debian git repositories <http://git.debian.org/>. You can also keep up
to date on how the work is progressing by subscribing to the oVirt devel
mailing list <http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel>.

Fix Some Bugs

These bugs are just waiting to be resolved:

Bug ID

Summary

1411133

Hosted-Engine: iscsi activation storage failing

1209881

[RFE] Remove iptables from hosted-engine.spec file to be able to deploy
hosted-engine without firewall services installed

1353713

[RFE] - iSCSI Setup Should use different User/Password For Discovery and
Portal

1130445

[TEXT] - If engine-setup asks for updates and choice is no, suggest
'--offline' on re-run.

1174236

[RFE] Integrate installation with Server Roles of Fedora Server

1356425

[TEXT] 'hosted-engine --vm-start' said it destroyed the VM

1328488

The engine fails with oracle java8

Port oVirt to Your Favorite Distribution

Are you sure-handed at packaging software, and using a distribution
currently unsupported by oVirt? Help to get oVirt ported to any of the
following distributions:

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>. Also, check out Google Summer
of Code <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2016/Ideas> to
learn how you can contribute to Gentoo and get paid for it!

Debian
<http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/debian-support-for-hosts/>:


Archlinux <http://www.ovirt.org/develop/developer-guide/arch-linux/>

OpenSUSE <https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/Virtualization:oVirt>

Get into DevOps

If you love DevOps and find yourself counting stable builds in Jenkins CI
while trying to fall asleep, then the oVirt infrastructure team is looking
for you! Join us and dive into the latest and coolest DevOps tools today!
Check out these open tasks
<https://ovirt-jira.atlassian.net/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=6.>.

You can also help by telling us how you use oVirt in your DevOps
environment. Email us at devel at ovirt.org (Please use [DevOps] in the
subject line. For more information on oVirt DevOps, visit oVirt
infrastructure docs
<http://ovirt-infra-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/> and oVirt
infra documentation
<http://www.ovirt.org/develop/infra/infrastructure-documentation/>.



Improve the oVirt System Testing

Make oVirt system testing
<https://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-system-tests.git;a=summary> - and
the Lago system <https://github.com/lago-project/lago> that runs it - even
better. Visit Lago project documentation
<http://lago.readthedocs.io/en/stable/> to learn how to run the test suite
yourself.

More Bugs, No Coding Required

No time for DevOps and you are not a programer? You can still contribute.
Here are some easy bugs to fix
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=classification%3Aovirt%20cf_ovirt_team%3Adocs>
that don’t require a single line of code.

Tests to Run

Do you prefer to test things? Here are some test cases you can try
<http://www.ovirt.org/develop/infra/testing/>, using nightly snapshots
<http://www.ovirt.org/develop/dev-process/install-nightly-snapshot/>.

Switching to Fedora 25

For oVirt 4.2, support for Fedora will be based on Fedora 25. You can help
to get it ready by running nightly snapshots
<http://www.ovirt.org/develop/dev-process/install-nightly-snapshot/> and
reporting any issues.

Create Your Own Test Cases

We’d love you to contribute some much needed test cases for oVirt features
<http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/>.

Get Creative

You are welcome to contribute artwork, such as oVirt live backgrounds and
covers, release banners, stickers, and t-shirt designs. Check out Fedora
artworks <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork#Resources> for inspiration.

Get Alternative

Into alternative architectures? Test ppc64le
<https://cbs.centos.org/repos/virt7-ovirt-41-release/ppc64le/> and aarch64
<https://cbs.centos.org/repos/virt7-ovirt-41-release/aarch64/> packages
from CentOS Virt SIG.

Talk to Us!

Feel free to ask any other question about development by emailing us at
devel at ovirt.org, or by reaching out on the IRC channel
<https://www.ovirt.org/community/>.

Spread the Good News

Help to spread the word about oVirt! We are the complete virtual machine
management system that’s free and comes with an impressive list of enterprise
capabilities
<http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-much-longer-can-red-hats-ovirt-remain-covert/>
including live migration, high availability, load balancing, a self-hosted
engine, an intuitive user-interface, and much more.

How to Contribute

If you’d like to get involved, we’d love to hear from you! Simply shoot us
an email at devel at ovirt.org and tell us how you’d like to contribute.

We look forward to hearing from you!.

The oVirt Development Team
oVirt: Better technology. Faster Innovation. Powered by community
innovation.
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