Revision as of 22:23, 24 September 2012

Swift Oct. 1 Meeting Agenda

What is our focus for the next six months?

New deployers

• ease of install (shallow learning curve)
• automated ops tools

New contributors

• better docs about code organization and design

New client apps

• improve python-swiftclient
• improve other client bindings

New end users

• new features like server-side object splitting
• different auth semantics
• other new client-facing features

Leaves out "baseline" like improving what we already have

• use case: download 1 150MB file with 100 concurrent clients
• better replication
• faster auditing (eg XFS-specific tuning)

Therefore, what are the summit plans?

• See Swift topic proposals at http://summit.openstack.org
• CORS
• concurrent reads
• container sharding
• server-side large object splitting
• improving replication speed and efficiency
• new API
• ease of instalation and getting started
• geo clusters (affinity, tiered zones)

Any outstanding concerns or questions

• Update on testing concerns (tests not passing on oneric)