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  • Keep improving quality, remove dead code
    • coverity scans, sonar etcs. - (sonar requires upgrade)
    • Would be nice to see a dashboard to monitor progress or a weekly email to the list

  • Cleanup JIRA
    • JIRA has over 1400 open issues, a lot of them are not up to date.
    • Hold a JIRAthon to close as many as possible
    • Define JIRA best practices
    • Define commit habit of editing CHANGES.md when making a commit

  • We have successfully moved to GitHub pull requests, we should stop using RB
    • 4/6/2015 S. Goasguen got consensus on list, all reviews updated with a note to move to GH PR.
    • 4/17/2015 RB closed but still read only. Announcement email sent to the lists.
    • DONE

  • Simplify the dev process and adopt a new committing system to avoid regressions at all costs.
    • We have talked about this for a long time but have failed had doing something concrete. It is time.

  • Remove the AWSAPI (there is a branch without it right now), we should merge it in master
  • Several Cloud Providers have unveiled new CloudStack UI, maybe it’s time we do the same.
    • Talk to exoscale, PCextreme, CloudOps
    • Could we get a donation for a user facing UI

  • Solidify the testing infrastructure, keep Jenkins builds running

  • Brainstorm on the future of CloudStack and IaaS in general. What should CloudStack be in 10 years ?
    • While CloudStack is what it is now, nothing prevents us to re-architect, re-think, re-code it within the current framework.

  • Finally, package the mgt server and the KVM agent as Docker containers
    • Docker is a great portability mechanism. We should embrace Docker as a packaging tool (first) and provide container images for our mgt server (at a minimum).
      • 4/6/2015 PL Dion and S. Goasguen maintainer of the cloudstack org on hub.docker.com
    • This could become a type of release artifact that could be easily continuously built.

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  • Push to get our Ansible module into the Ansible core
    • 4/6/2015. This is really the work of Rene Moser now a CloudStack committer
    • Will be in Ansible 2.0
  • Publish "official" ansible playbook to deploy CloudStack
  • Publish “official” chef recipes to deploy CloudStack
    • We have quite a few Chef users, we should finish to polish up "official" chef recipes to deploy CloudStack
  • Identify and publish “official” Puppet recipes
    • Same with Puppet
  • Build Docker native templates (coreOS, rancherOS, Snappy, Atomic)
    • We already have coreOS ones
  • Finally cleanup cloud-init support for CloudStack, this is preventing us from having upstream centOS templates.
    • Identify the issue with the current cloudstack datasource in cloud-init
  • Work on the Terraform driver to support Basic zone
  • Work on better jclouds support
  • Get generic CloudStack driver merged in Docker machine
  • Publish playbooks/recipes to deploy workloads on CloudStack (think Hadoop, Spark, Kubernetes)
    • Getting a cloud is one thing but you need to deploy apps on top it and also deploy platforms
    • Provide ready to use recipes/playbooks to deploy platforms on a cloudstack cloud
    • 4/6/2015. .S. Goasguen I am working on Kubernetes and Mesos ansible playbook
  • Work actively on up to date integration with CloudFoundry
    • Cloud foundry is a supporter of the CloudStack days in 2015
    • Let's get an up to date integration with cloudstack done (via terraform of the like)
  • Work to get our packages in upstream distros
    • There has been some recent work to improve our deb packages, can we build on that to get in Debian ?

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  • Re-think our documentation tree
    • Maybe merge all guides in one
  • Correct the docs
    • There are still lots of issues that came from the old docs
  • Create a new theme for it.
    • 4/6/2015 PL Dion working on something there.
    • 5/19/2015 DONE
  • Close all old JIRA tickets that relate to old docs
    • Maybe during JIRAthon
  • Review and improve the API Reference documentation ( http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/api/ )
    • Issues to cover (suggested by Phillip Kent): 
      • parameters being required but are not marked as required (and probably there are cases of vice versa); 
      • have a better format for marking parameters that are conditionally required;
      • fix inaccurate command description texts; 
      • general problem of description text being too brief to properly explain the action of the command and how to use the parameters;
      • ? add another field for long description, examples? Or, is that better covered in the main documentation set and/or 'Publish playbooks/recipes to deploy workloads on CloudStack' above?
  • Delete wiki pages that relate to old docs
  • ? Is there an issue for maintaining improved documentation sets for multiple ACS versions = something analogous to the backporting efforts on the source code?
  • Make sure google indexes the new docs and has not kept the old ones
  • Remove the old docs from the svn website repo
  • Routinely build the multi-language support from transifex translation
  • If we find a sponsor we might be able to get O'Reilly to publish a CloudStack cookbook.
    • 4/6/2015 S. Goasguen to ask O'Reilly about feasibility.

On Events:

We have at least four great events coming in 2015. We need leads and a program committer for each of those.

  • Austin, April 16th
    • DONE
  • Tokyo, June 2nd
  • Seattle, August 20th 
  • Dublin. October 7-8

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  • There is now a gh-pages branch in our repo.
  • Anyone can actually contribute to that branch and it will rebuild a site automatically.
  • 4/6/2014 2015 Update. It does not seem that we can use this for c.a.o due to SSL certs and a few other things
  • 4/6/2014 2015 S. Goasguen moved website to use middleman. This is currently committed to svn repo
  • Website moved to Git, mirrored on github and uses middleman
  • https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-www
  • 5/19/2015 DONE

If we could find a great web designer in our community, we could rebuild our site and make it a very modern, polished site that would attract even more people.

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