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Re: [Xen-API] Xen Hackathon XAPI Process Discussion Notes (feel free to comment)



I had send separate email  about this but it was ignored .
I am attempting to install xen-api on arch linux create package when I am attempting to compile xen-api-libs rpc-light I get this error lib/type_conv p4_rpc.cmo p4_rpc.ml
File "p4_rpc.ml", line 544, characters 6-14:
Warning 26: unused variable arg_path.
ocamlfind ocamlc -I ../xml-light2 -I ../stdext -I ../uuid -annot -g -c -package camlp4,type_conv -pp "camlp4orf" -I /usr/lib/ocaml/camlp4 -I /root/.opam/system/lib/type_conv pa_rpc.cmo pa_rpc.ml
File "pa_rpc.ml", line 20, characters 72-75:
Error: This _expression_ has type bool but an _expression_ was expected of type
         Camlp4.PreCast.Ast.ctyp
make: *** [pa_rpc.cmo] Error 2
Any way you guys could get rpc-light compile with latest ocalm tools.


On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Mike McClurg <mike.mcclurg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 20/06/13 17:43, jacek burghardt wrote:
I hope you guys could get xen-api and xen-api-libs to compile on the
distro that have the lasted versions of linux packages installed. ocalm.
It is impossible to get xen-api libs to compile on arch linux

Only one of us use Arch Linux, and it's not a big server distro, so we haven't tried compiling on Arch yet. I'm really not surprised xapi is broken there!

If you'd like to help port xen-api to Arch, perhaps you could start another thread with any specific errors you're encountering? Arch would be a great "early warning" distro for us, because it's always on the bleeding-edge of upstream code, and would alert us to breakages caused by kernel/compiler/etc. changes much sooner than other distros.

Mike



On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Mike McClurg <mike.mcclurg@xxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:mike.mcclurg@citrix.com>> wrote:

    On 20/06/13 16:28, Lars Kurth wrote:

        Hi,

        Just a quick question:
        - Mike showed me a document somewheree on Github that closes
        item 1 ...
        can somebody send me the URL. I think its a document that is
        hidden in
        one of the repos.


    Is this what you want?

    https://github.com/xapi-__project/xen-api/blob/master/__README.markdown#contributions

    <https://github.com/xapi-project/xen-api/blob/master/README.markdown#contributions>

    I'll be publishing a draft Xapi roadmap shortly, BTW.

    Mike



        And ACTION chasing:
        1) Jon Ludlam (draft it today): Document how to contribut(proper
        Readme
        file / copy onto wiki or new website)
        2) Dave Scott: document the components - list with name + short
        desc +
        link to repo + diagram
        3) Mike McClurg: XAPI team needs to have a discussion about
        bug-tracking
        ... I would say that there should be a public discussion about this,
        once the other stuff has been resolved
        4) Lars: set up meeting with James, Richard, DaveS, and Mike
        Bursell to
        discuss and resolve ... although I have not set up a meeting,
        there has
        been a proposal. Mike promised he would respond to this thread for
        discussion today'ish
        5) Dave Scott socialise a proposal on what is a release with team at
        home ... again, I think there is a proposal that just needs to
        be posted
        6) John Garbutt: give techtalk to the XAPI team explaining the
        external
        viewpoint
        7) Rob Hoes to send a link to LaTex document in source tree re
        versioning scheme

        Cheers
        Lars


        On 17/05/2013 11:34, Lars Kurth wrote:

            This session was about processes and practices around XAPI
            and XCP.

            Participants: John Garbutt, Jonathan Ludlum, Rob Hoes, David
            Scott,
            Lars Kurth, Julien Fourgard, Olivier Lambert

            Communication
            =============
            * What is the Roadmap for XAPI and Roadmap process?
            * What bugs are there and what is being worked on?
            * Is there a way to disentagle the release of XAPI itself
               from XAPI packages? Right now, XAPI releases are not itself
               properly versioned and released which is causing issues
               and confusion in XAPI packages and distributions.
               Solutions could be
            ** Source/other release of XAPI (outside of package)
            ** Could just be a tag in GIT
            ** Should have an identifiable version number

            More practical questions
            ========================
            * How do you contribute a patch (not documented)?
            * How do you raise a bug (not documented)?
            * How does a release happen?

            Contributing a Patch
            ====================
            NOW: not documented

            SOLUTION: Github and pull requests
            (+tagged message or digest on list)

            Stuff that needs to happen first
            * XAPI iser and dev have to be split
            * Proposal for list names: xapi-users and xapi-devel

            ACTIONS:
            * Jonathan L (draft it today): Document how to
            contribut(proper Readme
            file / copy onto wiki or new website)
            * Dave Scott: document the components - list with name +
            short desc +
            link to repo + diagram

            How do you raise a bug (not documented)?
            ==============================__==========
            NOW: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/__Reporting_Bugs_against_XCP

            <http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Reporting_Bugs_against_XCP>
            For nor now, list is good enough. But long term want a bug
            tracker.

            ACTION: XAPI team needs to have a discussion about it
            Constraints
            * Publicly accessible
            * Hosted outside of Citrix
            * JIRA looks like a good solution, but need to get
               it implemented and needs sysadmin support

            Roadmap Planning / Process
            ==========================
            JIRA tickets for features/improvements/bugs? Maybe a little
            much.

            Lars suggested to use something very lightweight: if you
            focus too
            much on tools you lose sight of the essentials. For Xen HV a
            high-level list and polling status on the mailing list works.

            John: as an external developer, John would want to see what
            is coming
            and where there are opportunities to contribute.

            List of desirable items from a community perspective
            * Have clarity of what are people working on
            * Clarity on what is coming soon (with a view of being able
            to test)
            * Ability to collaborate on what others are working on
            * Not start something which somebody else started
            * Points in time to facilitate collaborative planning
               (requires a fixed release cadence, or long term predictable
                roadmap)

            ACTIONS:
            * Lars: set up meeting with James, Richard, DaveS, and Mike
               Bursell to discuss and resolve

            What is a XAPI release?
            =======================
            Problem: confusion on "what is in XAPI packages" (e.g. if
            you picked
            up XCP-XAPI packages from Debian it is not clear what is in it).
            Working on CentOS-XAPI integration I have no idea what is in the
            package and thus what I need to test.

            High level solution:
            * Some label + numbering scheme/naming convention in GIT repos
            ** Something matching major dependencies
            ** Release (or release notes) defines what combinations
                have been tested
            ** Some convenience mechanism for distros, such as a
                tarball to download (which excludes the distro package)

            QUESTION: should the packaging be separate from distro packaging
            (which includes the ISO)

            ANSWER: packaging should be separate; there may have to be
            different
            models per distro

            ACTION:
            * Dave socialise with team at home
            * JohnG: give techtalk on external viewpoint

            API Version
            ===========
            NOW: List on Citrix website in the release notes which is
            generated
            from source

            Issue: it should be clear which XAPI version maps onto APIs

            Action: Rob Hoes to send a link to LaTex document in source
            tree.

            Should build the LaTex document, include it into tarball and
            advertise
            it as part of the XAPI release.




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