By Alex Huang Architect, Cloud Platforms Group, Citrix Systems Inc.

1. Apache
CloudStack (incubating)
Prasanna Santhanam
tsp@apache.org
Prasanna.Santhanam@citrix.com
How the Apache community works

2. The Apache Foundation
• Open collaborative projects developed under
the umbrella of the ASF
• Provide legal guidance, advice to the
foundation's projects
• Promote Meritocracy

3. Projects
• Top Level Projects
o Apache HTTP Webserver
o Apache Tomcat
o Apache Cassandra
o Apache Hadoop
• Incubator
o Apache CloudStack
• Labs
• Attic

4. Roles
• User
• Developer
• Committer
• PPMC - Member and Chair
• ASF Members
• Project Management Committee (PMC)
Many Hats!

5. Yes! the ASF is great!

6. Apache CloudStack status
• In incubation for around 6 months now
• Apache CloudStack 4.0 is released!
• Bugtrackers and Wiki moving to ASF Infra
• Code repos moved to Apache GIT
• Many non-Citrix contributors, committers,
and PPMC members

7. Who's participating
• Caringo contributes object store plugin
• Nicira controller by Hugo
• Ceph/RBD support by Wido
• CLVM for KVM by Marcus
More ...
• CloudEra (Hadoop backed Object Store)
• Midokura (SDN Controller)
• Basho - Object store
• Interests from CloudByte

8. Working towards 4.1
• Improved package management
• DevCloud improvements
• Re-arch, Event handling,
• Storage Re-arch work
• Auto Provisioning via Kickstarts
• Expanding test coverage
• Documentation for all this and more!

9. How to contribute?
• It's not just about code!
o Discussions - Design, Use Cases, Deployments
o Documentation
o Bug Reports and Feature Requests
o Code Review
o Feedback
o Wiki and Website management
o Build, Tools and Infrastructure
o Helping out on the IRC
o Spreading the word
• It's your voice!

10. The future needs you!
• Project website:
o http://incubator.apache.org/projects/cloudstack.html
o www.cloudstack.org
• Mailings Lists
(cloudstack-dev-subscribe@incubator.apache.org,
cloudstack-users-subscribe@incubator.apache.org)
o All decision making, consensus - [DISCUSS | RFC]
o Democratic / Voting - [VOTE]
• IRC
o irc.freenode.net : (#cloudstack, #cloudstack-dev, #cloudstack-
meeting)
o Wednesday - 10:30 PM IST, 5:00 UTC

11. Filing Bugs
• Sign up at
o https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK
• Send an email to the dev list to have yourself registered as
a contributor
• Search to make sure the bug has not already been filed.
• If you need to, then file a new bug
o Make sure you check the release it was found in.
o Describe how to reproduce the bug in detail.
o Add relevant logs to the bug
• If the bug has been filed, but it is not targeted to be fixed in
the release you want.
o Create a subtask for that bug
o Make sure the fix version is set to your version

12. Fixing bugs
• Sign up on the review board
o https://reviews.apache.org/groups/cloudstack/
• Follow the process on
o http://incubator.apache.org/cloudstack/develop/non-contributors.html
• Every patch must have a bug id in Jira
• Every patch must provide unit tests
• Be sure to mark off the status of the bug
according to the workflow

13. Jira Workflow

14. Feature Proposal
• Send email tagged with [PROPOSAL] to cloudstack-
dev@incubator.apache.org
o Summary of the problem
o Summary of the solution
• Give others time to read the proposal and comment.
One week should be good.
• Respond to comments.
• Conclude with whether the proposal will continue
and what branch it will be in.
• Start a bug on Jira and indicate the release it is
intended to be in.
• When the feature is complete then close the bug.

15. Localization
• Support for Japanese and Simplified Chinese
• Takes advantage of the Java
ResourceBundle to do localization
• Simply create a /WEB-
INF/classes/resources/messages_<language
code>.properties
• Server side vs Client side processing

16. Documentation
• Effort to break documentation into small
sections
• Send email on the mailing list if you’re
interested in this area.

17. Apache CloudMonkey