Documentation Hackathon

Logistics and online

Date: Wed, Apr 22.

Time: 5PM -

Location:

11th Floor Large Conference Room. USC Information Sciences Institute. 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292.

Call Venkata Pingali (pingali@gmail.com) 310-592-3910
to let you in

Parking:

1. Malls east and west of Lincoln & Mindanao (max 3 hours).
2. Street side (if lucky) on Mindanao between Lincoln and 90 East.
3. Street side on Mindanao between Lincoln beyond 90 West.

Option 3 is the safest. Call Venkata in case of 3. He will pick you up
from where you park.

Online

We’ll be online as well, most likely with acrobat.com. Jump on to the IRC channel: #poolpartyrb / irc.freenode.net for a link. Will be updated here as well.

Code areas needing documentation

• Using chef
• Monitors
• Decentralization
• Remoter Bases
  • Vmrun
  • How to add more

Non-code documentation desired

• Overall architecture of the system and components
• Feature status (experimental/stable/planned)
• Tutorials
  • Make sure Installation and Getting Started wiki pages are up to date
  • How to deploy after the first `cloud start`
• Real world examples/recipes
  • Typical load-balanced Rails app with haproxy, 1+ web servers, 2+ app servers and 1+ db
  • MySql master-slave
  • MySQL master-master
  • A way to submit recipes

Getting involved

• Introduction to the API/internals
• Instructions to modify the code and submit patches

Long-term

• Roadmap