How to become open stack upstream contributor openstack days krakow 2018
- 1. How to become OpenStack upstream developer Introduction and useful tips Sławek Kapłoński IRC: slaweq@freenode Twitter: slaweq
- 2. 2 About me Introduce myself How to contribute Different ways of how to contribute to OpenStack Communication in community Various communication methods used in OpenStack Useful tools Some tools which every OpenStack developer should know AGENDA
- 3. 3 DevOps in OVH First contact with OpenStack (Havana) 2013 First contribution to OpenStack 2018 About me In OpenStack community Core reviewer in OpenStack Neutron and SDK/shade (Queens) 2017 Software Engineer in Red Hat 2015
- 5. 5 Improve documentation Test and report bugs or feature requests Send patchesCode review Ways of contributing
- 6. 6 ● OpenStack storyboard: https://storyboard.openstack.org ● Launchpad https://launchpad.net/openstack ● Blueprints and specs https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openstack Testing and reporting bugs The way to report a bug or begin planning new feature varies on the project.
- 7. 7 ● Code review always in Gerrit https://review.openstack.org ● Free, web-based tool, which integrates closely with GIT ● How to start with Gerrit: https://docs.openstack.org/contributors/common/setup-gerrit.html Code review - gerrit
- 8. 8 Code review - gerrit
- 9. 9 Votes: ● Code review category: ○ Everyone: -1, 0, +1 ○ Core reviewers: -2, +2 ● Verified category: ○ CI systems: -1, +1 ○ Zuul: -2, +2 ● Approved category: ○ Core reviewers and owner: -1 (Work In Progress), 0 ○ Core reviewers: +1 (Approved) Code review - gerrit Basic concept according to OpenStack
- 10. 10 Code review - gerrit Why doing review is important? ● Learn the code base ● You can try to stop merging patches which might have bad impact for Your deployment ● Improve visibility and recognition in community ● More reviews You do - more people will review Your code fast :) ● catch regressions before they're merged ● increase the quality of the code
- 11. 11 Code review - gerrit Source: https://github.com/assafmuller/gerrit_time_to_merge
- 12. 12 Development workflow with Gerrit Source: https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/_images/code_review.png
- 14. 14 Communication - mailing lists Subscribe at : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ Plenty of different mailing lists, for example: ● openstack@lists.openstack.org ● openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org ● openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org
- 15. 15 Communication - IRC ● OpenStack use Freenode server ● Many different channels: ○ openstack ○ openstack-dev ○ openstack-operators ○ openstack-pl ● History logs from each channel: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/
- 16. 16 Communication - IRC meetings ● Teams meetings on IRC ● List of meetings: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/ ● Important to discuss things with (almost) all team members ● Meetings have agenda and lead person always
- 17. Useful tools
- 18. 18 CLI tool: git-review Useful commands $ git review -u Update change from gerrit Download change from gerrit $ git review -d <change_id> Upload change to gerrit $ git review
- 19. 19 CLI tool: gertty AlternativeI gerrit client
- 20. 20 OpenStack web based tools Zuul v3 status page https://zuul.openstack.org/
- 21. 21 OpenStack web based tools Logstash page http://logstash.openstack.org/
- 22. 22 OpenStack web based tools Logstash page http://logstash.openstack.org/
- 23. 23 OpenStack web based tools Grafana: http://grafana.openstack.org
- 24. 24 OpenStack web based tools Codesearch: http://codesearch.openstack.org
- 25. 25 OpenStack web based tools Stackalytics: http://stackalytics.com