[openstack-community] [upstream] Getting the training material ready: Landslide or hieroglyph?

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Wed Mar 4 23:58:20 UTC 2015


> On Mar 4, 2015, at 6:44 PM, Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Mar 3, 2015, at 1:29 AM, Stefano Maffulli <stefano at openstack.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello folks,
>> 
>> Upstream Training Vancouver is open and people have started to sign up.
>> Tim Freund and Chris Ricker are two confirmed trainers, we're waiting
>> for at least one more trainer to confirm availability but as in other
>> cases, the more the merrier: we will need help in the classroom and
>> after the summit, with online mentoring.
>> 
>> We'll be using this mailing list to coordinate, using the tag [upstream]
>> in the subject.
>> 
>> One of the first things to do is to fix the slides for Vancouver. They
>> are in a git repo:
>> 
>> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/training-guides/tree/doc/upstream-training
>> 
>> Currently they are in landslide format, although there was a request to
>> port them to Hieroglyph in order to reduce the requirements.txt in all
>> our projects. I have made an attempt at porting to Hiero
>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/132395/ but at the same time Sean
>> Roberts started setting things up for landslide in
>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/141226/
>> 
>> I think we need to just pick one format, I don't care much which, and
>> provide the content to trainers. 
>> 
>> Thoughts?
> 
> As the person who originally asked about using hieroglyph instead of landslide, I’ll say I don’t really care one way or the other either. I pointed out that hieroglyph builds on a tool many contributors are already familiar with, which might reduce the overhead for contribution, but landslide isn’t that complex so it may not be work rebuilding everything to use a new tool.

*may not be worth rebuilding*

> 
> We also no longer need all build dependencies listed in the global requirements list, so it would be possible to install and use the tool in a job without syncing requirements from the global list.
> 
> Doug
> 
>> 
>> /stef
>> 
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