[ovirt-devel] Interest in contributing to oVirt

[Yaniv Kaul]

Hi Konrad,

Just wanted to make sure your proposal is going well - deadline is soon.
Let me know if there's anything we can help you with.
Good luck,
Y.

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 8:41 PM, Yaniv Kaul <ykaul at redhat.com> wrote:

> [removed the users mailing list, devel is enough]
>
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 7:45 PM, Konrad Djimeli <djkonro35 at gmail.com>
> 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 at redhat.com> 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 at gmail.com>
>> 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/
>> >
>> >
>>
>
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