SwiftOct1Meeting
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Swift Oct. 1 Meeting
When: October 1, 2012 at 20:00 (UTC), 3pm (Central), 1pm (Pacific), 9pm (London)
Where: #openstack-meeting on freenode (IRC)
Agenda
- Agenda/Vision/Goal
- Feature catagory overview
- Review features
- Summit talks
- Concerns and Questions
http://etherpad.openstack.org/SwiftOct1Meeting
Features for the next six months, categorized
New Contributors
- improved "getting started as a dev" docs (code organization, design overview)
New Deployers
- geo replicas (proxy affinity + tiered zones + separate replication interface)
- ring server w/ auto device detection
- remote testing tool (if functests are sufficient, then at least docs)
- concurrent reads to a single object
- on-disk compression
New Client Apps
- improved language bindings
- better docs about ideal client access patters for swift
- better docs about designing datasets to be stored in swift
New End Users
- tiered storage cluster
- better traversal abstractions (how can I get a listing of a large container)
- metadata searching
- server-side object splitting (large single-stream upload)
- multi-range support
- CORS support
- on-disk encryption
- API v2
Basic "Be More Awesome" Things (Misc)
- FS-specific tuning (eg better disk walking)
- replication improvements: eg ring-version-aware communication, "replicate now" (or general replication priority) support
- remove webob
- replace eventlet?
- container sharding
Therefore, what are the summit plans?
- See Swift topic proposals at http://summit.openstack.org
Any outstanding concerns or questions
- ????