On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 1:35 PM, John Spray <jspray@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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! > Thanks, John. :) > 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. > As you say. Can you point out any other areas of Ceph that I should explore thoroughly for this project? Also, I would be glad if you could share any kind of technologies that I need to be familiar with (other than HTML, CSS, JS etc). For example, I'm looking into CherryPy these days. It will help me to pick up things more easily if I know the tech you are planning to use for the dashboard. >> 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
