On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 6:06 AM, saumay agrawal <saumay.agrawal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Kefu, > > I apologize for the late reply. > > I have been looking into the PR you mentioned earlier > https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/14946 . I have also explored the > Calamari Dashboard in the past few days. I have some queries. > > I guess since Calamari Dashboard already does the job of visualizing > the statistics of a Ceph cluster (health, OSDs, MONs, pools, IOPS, > space utilization etc), we would primarily be improving on its UI/UX, > that is to say the visualization portion and some other > functionalities. Please do correct me if I am wrong in this. > > Moreover, Calamari Dashboard is made up of Calamari Server (backend) > and Calamari Clients (frontend). > > I found out that Calamari Server uses a new REST API instead of being > based upon the CEPH REST API. Will I be working on improving this new > REST API? > > Moreover, Calamari Server is written in Django and > django-rest-framework. However in the prototype of the dashboard > mentioned in the PR above, I could find that the dashboard is using > CherryPy too. CherryPy is a minimalist framework which is good for > prototyping and makes it very easy. Meanwhile Django is more of a > complete web application stack. So will we be using a single > technology primarily, or a combination of both? Welcome! Don't worry about any of the Django or REST stuff. Django is being dropped from everything because the maintainers of downstream (distribution) packages are highly opposed to supporting it as a dependency. The REST part is not needed when the dashboard is built as a mgr module, because as a mgr module is has direct access to the Ceph state. > Last thing I want to ask is for what kinds of things I should be > contacting you and for what kind of things I should be contacting > John? Since John is my mentor on this project and I can see him > working on most of the Dashboard portion on GitHub, I presume for any > dashboard related issue I should contact him. And also to whom should > I send the weekly report of my progress on my project? I think I'm supposed to be a co-mentor (whatever that means :-) ) and Kefu is your primary point of contact. I'm always happy to provide opinions though of course. John > Regards, > Saumay. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
