Revision as of 19:45, 12 July 2010

Rackspace Open Source Cloud Wiki

The Rackspace Open Source Cloud Mission: to produce the ubiquitous Open Source Cloud Computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private cloud providers regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable.

This wiki is intended to provide a repository and initial forum for discussions, requirements, and architectural development in progress.

Still to come are Launchpad project pages, the official website, and blog with RSS feed.

Foundation documents

Open - What openness means to us. 

Governance - This is an overall document for Rackspace and how its governance will interface with this and other opensource projects in the future.

ProjectGovernance - This is the Governance document for this community-driven project.

Coding Standards

Development Process

Requirements

Use Cases - These describe the high-level functional requirements, subsequently decomposed into detailed component requirements. Each requirement begins as a simple function (e.g., Add new server). These are then decomposed via data flow diagrams to show the data and processing requirements placed upon each component in order to support the basic function. These should follow the template in SpecTemplate.

Architectural - These describe the interface requirements for each component, starting at the external API and working inward.

NonFunctional - These describe the basic, non-functional requirements which are priorities for the architecture (e.g., scalability, easy of use). Each basic requirement is then decomposed into detailed requirements via specification of the manner of testing to be used to measure compliance to that requirement (e.g., specific load tests, length of install, etc.)

Architecture

   Overview High level overview of the different components and how they interact.

Development

Introduction for developers

Design Tenets  - Some of the basic principles we are following.

Other Project Documents

Who we are
2010Summit