Contributing to Apache CloudStack

Sebastien Goasguen,

January 23rd

@sebgoa

Contributing to Apache CloudStack

Outline

How to Contribute to CloudStack ?

Do I need to code ?

How can I help ?

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Apache Software FoundationMechanisms…


Apache Software Foundation

• Community over code

• Everything happens on the mailing lists

• Focused with releasing software

Mailing Lists

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

cloudstack.apache.org/mailing-lists.html

ML are the official channels, decisions are recorded and made there.


mailto:[email protected]



CodingClone the code repository

Work on your patches

Get feedback on dev@

Submit them to reviews.apache.org

Ultimately gain write access to the codeContributing to Apache CloudStack

User Support

Answer user questions on the mailing lists, especially users@

Share your knowledge about CloudStack, help others install, troubleshoot

Become a committer: e.g Geoff, Shanker…


Marketing

marketing@ mailing list

Help promote CloudStack on social media

Help organize events (meetups, workshops, conference)

Talk about CloudStack at conferences

Become a committer: e.g Giles …


IRCIRC is the old instant messaging system, still heavily used today by open source folks.

Join #cloudstack #cloudstack-dev on freenode

Engage with fellow CloudStack folks, user support via IRC

Become a committer: e.g Kelcey …


Testing / Vote

Anyone can vote on a release.

Voting is a key principle of ASF. Releases are voted on. If votes don’t pass we keep working…

Users can test, upgrade, etc and participate on [VOTE] threadsContributing to Apache CloudStack

Bug filingUse CloudStack, find bugs

File bug reports on JIRA

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACKContributing to Apache CloudStack

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK

DocumentationBig push coming to change documentation format to make it easier to fix and contribute to.

Contributing to CloudStack

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Undirect Contributions


Translation


Ecosystem


Event hosting

Meetups , evening event #cloudbeers

“Build a Cloud Day”, full day or half-day events

Need location and pizzas…

Paris, Amsterdam, Geneva, Berlin, London, Dublin, Bucarest, Madrid, Barcelona, Brussells…


Sponsoring Events

CloudStack Collaboration Conference:

Vegas, Santa-Clara, Amsterdam

Denver April 9-11th.


Case Studies

WebMD

TomTom

ISWest

PCExtreme

Exoscale

ASG

We need more…https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Case+Studies


Get Involved with Apache CloudStack

Web: http://cloudstack.apache.org/

Mailing Lists: cloudstack.apache.org/mailing-lists.html

IRC: irc.freenode.net: 6667 #cloudstack #cloudstack-dev

Twitter: @cloudstack

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/groups/CloudStack-Users-Group-3144859

If it didn’t happen on the mailing list, it didn’t happen.

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Contributing to Apache CloudStack