[Fiware-cloud] Openstack Summit Summary

[Alex Glikson]

I am glad that you were able to attend - I hope it was helpful to better 
understand the spirit and the dynamics of the OpenStack community.
Regarding the specific issue of the client-side library -- thinking of 
sustainability of what we develop in FIWARE (especially after FI-Core 
ends), I think the best approach would be to align with the direction the 
community is taking. This way we can take advantage of all the OpenStack 
community work in FIWARE going forward (without the need to constantly 
duplicate the same new features ourselves, as it has been happening until 
now), and also make it easy to contribute our unique enhancements to the 
OpenStack community.
I understand that this might be a significant effort, but in might opinion 
it might be worth it, in the long run. Keep in mind that long-term 
sustainability is a key goal in FI-Core.
Maybe it would be easier to make the decision once we better understand 
the required effort. Can you, please, add a work item for the current 
sprint to estimate the effort?

Regards,
Alex




From:   Álvaro Alonso <aalonsog at dit.upm.es>
To:     fiware-cloud at lists.fi-ware.org
Cc:     Juan Quemada DIT Juan <jquemada at dit.upm.es>, Joaquin DIT Salvachua 
<jsalvachua at dit.upm.es>
Date:   11/11/2014 07:27 PM
Subject:        [Fiware-cloud] Openstack Summit Summary
Sent by:        fiware-cloud-bounces at lists.fi-ware.org



Hi all, 

as probably many of you already know, the Openstack Summit 2014 was held 
in Paris last week. As some other FIWARE partners, we (DIT-UPM) attended 
the meeting, in order to keep in contact with the Openstack community and 
improve the alignment of our developments with the general line of 
Opensack projects. 

Regarding Cloud chapter and specifically the Cloud Portal, the main topic 
is that the community is working on migrating the dashboard from 
Django-based web server to a client side one (all MVC running in the 
browser). In order to do that, as we already know, they have chosen 
AngularJS technology. Mainly because of its similarities with Django views 
templates. They are planning the migration step by step, starting with 
some views of the identity service. 

The current implementation of our Cloud Portal fits with the proposed 
architecture (our MVC runs in client side) but not with the chosen 
technology (we use Backbone.js). In the next weeks we will evaluate if it 
makes sense to work in their direction and also if we make an action plan 
to align with them. If you have any insights or suggestions about it, we 
would appreciate if you share them in the list. 

Many thanks and best regards.
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