On 06.11.2013 19:35, Loic Dachary wrote:
Hi Ceph, I would like to open a discussion about organizing a Ceph User Committee. We briefly discussed the idea with Ross Turk, Patrick McGarry and Sage Weil today during the OpenStack summit. A pad was created and roughly summarizes the idea: What do you think ?
The core Ceph developers are entirely engaged with deep Ceph internals, optimizations and sophisticated new features.
On the other side, I think, the Ceph community is able to help further with the wider and smoother Ceph adoption (further than current mailing list participation in the support) with far more simple and generic bits of code:
Web application - Ceph setups gallery. Could be organized like github: account/setup. Setup consists of (declarative - e.g JSON/XML exportable) Topology, Hardware, OSs, Ceph (setup method, command/script steps and/or chef/puppet artifacts, final running ceph configs on node classes).
When a Ceph architect/admin have a successful, tuned cluster, if she is willing to share (or just keep as documentation), describes the setup under her account (with private bits obfuscated).
When a new Ceph user want to ask a question or need help, he can (as alternative of current setup descriptions in e-mail prose) create an account and add his draft there, pointing in the e-mail to the revision. Also a new user can just clone existing template, adjust to his local context and try to generate scripts and/or management system artifacts on top of the revision export.
Once the basic data schema have been roughly determined, interactive SVG views (using/like d3js) could be added.
Regards, Alek _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
