vdsm hooks pages at ovirt.org

[Mike Burns]

On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 08:23 -0400, Dan Yasny wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mike Burns" <mburns at redhat.com>
> > To: "Dan Yasny" <dyasny at redhat.com>
> > Cc: infra at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Monday, 20 August, 2012 3:19:29 PM
> > Subject: Re: vdsm hooks pages at ovirt.org
> > 
> > On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 07:03 -0400, Dan Yasny wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I am working on a project to make the existing vdsm hooks more
> > > accessible and available.
> > > 
> > > So in very short, for those who do not know, a vdsm hook is a
> > > script
> > > that can be placed on ovirt hosts, and which will do some custom
> > > actions, vdsm cannot do out of the box.
> > > 
> > > We have quite a few already in the repositories at
> > >
> http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=vdsm.git;a=tree;f=vdsm_hooks;h=6f33db4079b250336fa1369771a63dce585e1d81;hb=HEAD
> > > and the vdsm engineers are starting to turn these into proper RPMs
> > > and push them into fedora, and then EPEL repos, however, for these
> > > to be consumable, we also will need a description page for each
> > > hook, somewhere under ovirt.org/hooks or hooks.ovirt.org, where
> > > every hook can be downloaded, and have a description, version
> > > compatibility and a use case described.
> > > 
> > > If you use gnome-shell, it would be something like
> > > extensions.gnome.org, but of course, not quite the same, as we
> tend
> > > to
> > > a different kind of user.
> > > 
> > > I would like to find out what will be required to do this, as soon
> > > as
> > > possible
> > 
> > Cool stuff.
> > 
> > Creating ovirt.org/hooks is pretty easy, hooks.ovirt.org is slightly
> > more complex (but doable).
> 
> /hooks is good enough for me, as long as it's easy to find and manage

ok, that will keep it within the current wordpress instance then, rather
than something outside it.  

We can probably setup a separate redirect so that hooks.ovirt.org -->
ovirt.org/hooks.

> 
> > 
> > The big questions:
> > * Who is doing the original design and content seeding?
> 
> Myself, basing on the READMEs Shahar and other added to the hooks
> 
> > * Who will own keeping things up to date going forward?
> 
> We'll need a maintainer of course, depending on the amount of load,
> initially that will probably be me, but ultimately - someone dealing
> with hooks in vdsm devel, or someone maintaining the rest of the
> website

It will probably need to be a combination.  Website maintainers won't
necessarily know the correct content to update, but having the content
provided by developers and then updated would probably work.

> 
> > 
> > It might make sense to initially put the content you want on a wiki
> > page, and then transition it to a static page long term.
> 
> I'd rather take it directly to a separate page - there's nothing more
> permanent than the temporary

I would have proposed etherpad if that was already up and running, but
it's not currently.  I was purely proposing wiki as a very short term
staging environment.


> 
> > 
> > As for the backend yum repo, that is pretty easily accomplished.  We
> > can
> > simply have a separate area in the releases for current vdsm hooks.
> 
> Can you elaborate please? Where will the actual RPMs be taken from?

You tell me.  My thought is that this will mirror the current versions
in EPEL and/or Fedora.  My thought is that this is considered stable.
> 
> >  I
> > would assume that we'll want to keep that relatively stable and only
> > update manually when new versions are released.  We can also have
> > something like an "unstable" repo where nightly builds of the
> plugins
> > are uploaded.
> 
> That can stay with the fedora based vdsm repos, we want the real
> consumables here IMO

OK, our nightly build repos should suffice for this then.  

FWIW, this is already being done:

http://ovirt.org/releases/nightly/rpm/Fedora/17/noarch/

As things get added into the vdsm git repo and spec file, they'll get
auto-built nightly in jenkins and mirrored to this repository.
Currently, this includes:  faqemu, qemucmdline, and vhostmd.

Mike

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> > 
> > Mike
> > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Dan Yasny
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