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Making Summit Better

Chris Johnston — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:19:09 +0000

Over the past few months a lot of work has been done to the Summit Scheduler. This all culminated this past week when I sent in an RT to update the production instance of Summit. This included somewhere in the neighborhood of 8,000 lines of code change between Summit and the two themes that are run.

There are two major changes to Summit from the changes this past week. The first is that Summit has been rethemed to meet the new design guidelines for Ubuntu. This work was completed with major assistance by Alexander Fougner, Stephen Williams, and Brandon Holtsclaw who each put in numerous hours to make this happen.

The other major change, which affects the way that you will work with Summit is that you now have the ability to propose meetings in Summit removing the requirement that you create a blueprint. Also, as long as you’re using the new propose meeting feature in Summit, you no longer have to have a special name for your meeting, this is now done automatically. I also created a video which will walk you through the process of proposing a meeting in Summit.

As always, please file bugs if you find any issues!

The Summit Scheduler: A Call for Testing

Chris Johnston — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 03:35:03 +0000

The Summit Hackers have been hard at work again creating new features to make Summit easier to use. However, we need your help testing these features before the public release. This is where you, the user, come in! I have created a Test Summit on my server and created a test sprint in Launchpad and here is where I need your help with testing:

First, visit the test sprint in Launchpad, next mark yourself as attending. Please note, it could take up to 20 minutes before you are able to use summit after marking yourself as attending. You can either attend physically or remotely, it doesn’t matter. While you are there, take the time to create a couple of test meetings. Please be sure when you create these test meetings to follow the naming guidelines below.

Hey Chris, what are the new features? I am so glad you asked! The new features are:

For Attendees:

Summit now supports the ability for attendees to propose meetings right inside of Summit! On certain pages in Summit, you will now see an “Actions” area. Depending on what part of the cycle we are in, you may see different links. During the sponsorship application process, you will see links to apply for sponsorship. If you have the ability to review sponsorship applications, this is where you will find that link during that time period. During the scheduling phase of the cycle, you will be able to “Propose a Meeting.” What this means is that you will create a meeting in Summit, which will then go into a holding pattern waiting for a Track Lead or Summit Organizer to approve or deny your meeting. You may be familiar with this behavior, as it isThis is a very similar behavior as it has been with what you may have seen with Launchpad.

For Track Leads, Schedulers, and Organizers:

If you are listed as a Track Lead, Scheduler, or Organizer in Summit, you will have the ability to “Create a Meeting” and “Review Proposed Meetings.” When creating a meeting, you have the ability to mark a meeting as Private. If a meeting is marked as private, you will have to get it scheduled through a scheduler (Michelle and Marianna for UDS, Arwen for Linaro Connect), it will not be automatically scheduled. Non-private meetings that are created by a Track Lead, Scheduler, or Organizer will be automatically scheduled when slots are available.

The other option that this group has is reviewing proposed meetings. There are three different options for the status, Approved, Pending, and Declined, which you get to by clicking the current status. Pending and Declined meetings show up on this page, while Approved meetings are auto-scheduled and no not show up here.

Known Issues:
* All tracks are shown in the track choice list, not just the ones for the current summit
* Edit meeting links don’t work
* Issues with the form theme

Creating Meetings through Launchpad

The good news is–the old way still works! You will still able to create meetings through Launchpad Blueprints just like before. There are a few things you will need to be aware of as you create meetings this way, these are as follows:

Tracks:

I have created a couple of tracks for this Test Summit. They are as follows:

Name                         Slug
Community        community
Linaro                     linaro
QA                               qa
Ubuntu                  ubuntu

Blueprint naming standards

When creating a blueprint in Launchpad, please follow the required naming standards whereis a custom name that you create for your meeting:

For the Community track:

community-

For the Linaro track:

linaro-

For the QA track:

qa-

For the Ubuntu track:

ubuntu-

Managers, Organizers, Track Leads, oh my!

If you are a member of ~summit-users on Launchpad, please take the time to approve/deny blueprints in launchpad.. I would like to have a couple denied, just to make sure everything still works properly. The same thing with the new meeting review feature in Summit. Please do not approve all meetings! Some of them need to be declined to ensure that everything is working properly!

IT’S VERY IMPORTANT that people who are in the role of Track Lead, Scheduler, or Organizer for UDS and Linaro Connect test things and give your feedback, please don’t wait until the week before your event to test this, please be considerate to those volunteers who are working to make this better for everyone. If you feel that you should have this access but don’t, please contact me and I will get you setup.

If you run into any problems, please file a bug and talk to me on IRC!

I look forward to your feedback and continuing to make summit the best possible scheduler it can be, and to do so requires your help. Thank in advance.

ssh-import-id saves time and hastle

Chris Johnston — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:16:56 +0000

My buddy Dustin Kirkland pointed me to a neat little utility that he wrote with Scott Moser called ssh-import-id. Since he showed it to me a few months ago, I have used it many times and it has made my life quite a bit easier.

ssh-import-id fetches a the defined user(s) public keys from Launchpad, validates them, and then adds them to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file. That’s it, but if you need to add multiple people, or don’t know which key they are going to want used, this will save you time.

Dustin has tried to get it added to OpenSSH, but he hasn’t been able to succeed at this yet.

To use ssh-import-id, you first need to install it if it already isn’t:

sudo apt-get install ssh-import-id

Then to run it you would run:

ssh-import-id chrisjohnston

This would import my public keys. You are also able to import multiple users at the same time:

ssh-import-id chrisjohnston kirkland

If you are looking for the latest version of the code it is available in a ppa:

ppa:launchpad/ssh-import-id

If you have problems or want to check out the code, check out the package on Launchpad.

Linaro Connect Q1.12 – Day 1

Chris Johnston — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:25:04 +0000

Yesterday was day one of Linaro Connect Q1.12. This was a very productive day of meeting people that I will be working with on LAVA, as well as other people throughout Linaro. I attended a couple of sessions during the morning, but I didn’t have anything noteworthy come out of them at this point. During the afternoon I worked with the Validation team in their hack session and was able to get LAVA running locally on my laptop and imported a bundle stream from Linaro’s LAVA setup.

Throughout the day I also did some work on Summit, pushing a couple of fixes and a new IRC link feature to Launchpad. While in the hacking session I met with Andy Doan and discussed the future of the Linaro Connect Android app, and we managed to get out a bug fix for it.

On day 2 I hope to do some more work with LAVA, hopefully figuring out how to play with the results that are displayed in the dashboard.

Attending Linaro Connect

Chris Johnston — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:13:03 +0000

This week I will be attending Linaro Connect Q1.12 in Redwood City, California. Infact, I’m in an American Airlines plane at 34,000 feet heading there now. In-flight WiFi is awesome!

Over the past two months Michael Hall and myself have been doing a large amount of work on The Summit Scheduler to get it ready for Connect this week including modifying more than 2,400 lines of Summit code. You can find out more about that in my previous post.

I have a few things that I want to get out of Connect. The first is that I want to get feedback on the changes to Summit, as well as figure out what other things we may need to change. The second thing that I want to do is to learn more about the Beagleboard-xM that I have and how to use it for the many different things it can be used for. The third thing that I want to do is to learn about Linaro’s LAVA.

LAVA is an automated validation suite used to run all sorts of different tests on the products that Linaro produces. The things that I would like to get out of Connect in relation to LAVA are how to setup and run LAVA, how to set it up to run tests, and how to produce results and display those results the way that I want them.

If you are at Linaro Connect, and would be willing to talk with me about Summit and the way you use it and your thoughts on the changes, please contact me and we will set aside a time to meet.

Big changes to Summit

Chris Johnston — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:24:19 +0000

During the months since UDS – P in Orlando, FL, the Summit Hackers have been hard at work. As of right now, we have modified more than 2400 lines of code and fixed 24 bugs. Most of those 2400 lines of code have been adding new features and finally getting around to adding a better looking schedule view when on your personal device. While we have made great strides towards getting Summit to be perfect, there is still more work that needs to be done. Our first big test for these new features will be the Linaro Connect Q1.12 event that starts next Monday, February 6. I have the pleasure of being able to go to this event, so I hope to obtain feedback while I am there on ways to further improve Summit for next UDS. Please feel free to poke around with the changes and provide any feedback you may have!

Also, thanks to the work of Stuart Langridge, the Summit agenda view will soon be mobile friendly, making it easy to follow your schedule on your cell phone!

Release Notes:

Added user roles of Scheduler, Manager, and Track Lead
Added the ability for Admins, Schedulers, Managers, and Track Leads to create private meetings through the UI
- The creator has the ability to add people who are required to attend
- The creator and any schedulers have the ability to edit the private meeting, as well as edit the attendee list
Added a way to create a link to a private meeting that has a random hash string in the URL.
- If you have been given this URL you can view the meeting details without being marked as attending, or having a launchpad account
Added a new daily agenda view (http://summit.ubuntu.com/lcq1-12/2012-02-06/)
- New display is much more personal computer friendly
- Displays all information about a meeting, including time, location, description, attendees, and track
- New displays will show private meetings that the logged in user is marked as attending on, including the information about the private meeting
- Gray star denotes not attending, Gold star denotes attending.
Added “Track” page (http://summit.ubuntu.com/lcq1-12/tracks)
- This page includes all tracks, track descriptions, and track leads.
Added the ability for the plenary room to double as a “Training room”
Removed ALL Linaro hacks
Added the ability for a user to mark themself as attending a meeting without having to subscribe to the blueprint

Bugs that were fixed:

version 1.0.0

version 1.0.1

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/921502

version 1.0.2

version 1.0.3

Ubuntu Community Web Project Global Jam

Chris Johnston — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:31:17 +0000

Today the dates for the next Ubuntu Global Jam were announced, so I went ahead and created first global jam event for the 12.04 cycle which is the 3rd Community Web Projects Global Jam. Join the community website developers for some fun and hacking! The event will take place on March 2, 2012 in Orlando, FL. We will also be in the #ubuntu-website channel on Freenode.

If you aren’t yet a website hacker but you would like to be, join us, and we will help you get started. Any questions, just contact me.

More information

Awesome Summit work during the UDS-O Cycle

Chris Johnston — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:51:06 +0000

Are you at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando?

Are you participating remotely?

If so, you have probably had the pleasure of using Summit. Most people know that in the past Summit has not been the easiest to play with. This past 6 months the Summit Developers have been busy doing tons of work on Summit making huge improvements to the system.

During UDS-O in Budapest, the Summit Development team created a huge list of work items. We had a total of 29 action items come out of the UDS session, as well as other maintenance and development things that needed to happen. 20 of these action items were completed, as well as many other things that didn’t make the action items list. By my count, we had 122 code commits and fixed 64 different bugs.

This work was done by a very small team, consisting mostly of volunteers. We added three new community developers this cycle, Jamal Fanaian, Penelope Stowe and David Callé. Hopefully they will continue doing great work on Summit with us. We also had new commits from Maris Fogels and Danilo Segan from Canonical and Linaro respectively. We also continued to have great work done by Nigel Babu, Michael Hall and James Westby.

This Wednesday (November 2) at 12 noon EDT is our planning session for Summit during the UDS-P cycle. If you are interested in helping to shape the future of Summit and UDS, please stop by the session!

I look forward to working during this next 6 months with the great team of developers that we have, and hope that we are able to recruit a few new people to join in the fun!

Ubuntu Developer Summit

Chris Johnston — Tue, 03 May 2011 20:16:08 +0000

This cycle we have made a number of improvements to the Summit web app. I am going to list out the changes which will hopefully make life easier for all involved.

Today’s Schedule: You are able to see today’s schedule by visiting http://summit.ubuntu.com/today instead of picking out the date on the Summit site.
Crew: On the top of the daily schedule you will find the Launchpad user names of the crew members who are on call that day. It also includes a link to their Launchpad.
Addition of the Guidebook app: Guidebook is a new app for the Android and iPhone systems. From the Guidebook website: “Guidebook allows attendees to access your event’s entire schedule right from their mobile device. Plus, they’ll never miss a session, panel or activity with our easy-to-use mobile alerts.” The Guidebook app includes schedules, a map of the venue, a To-do list, as well as access twitter integration. You can download Guidebook by scanning the QR Code below.

As always, if you have any issues with the Summit site, please file a bug.

Ubuntu Florida LoCo Team’s ‘Summit Jam’

Chris Johnston — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:45:06 +0000

On April 1st the Ubuntu Florida LoCo Team will be hosting a Summit Jam in Lakeland, Florida at 10 AM EST. For those of you who do not know, ‘Summit‘ is the web application that is the back bone of the Ubuntu Developer Summit. Summit, written in python and django, tracks blueprints, meetings, schedules, and rooms (and probably more) for the Ubuntu Developer Summit. Each cycle we try to improve the features of Summit, and this cycle Michael Hall and I have decided to have a Jam during this cycles ‘Global Jam‘ event. The actual Jam will take place in Lakeland, so if you are nearby, please feel free to come meet with us. We are also planning on having many remote participants helping us, and you are invited to join in. If you know python or django, or have an interest in learning either, or just want to be involved, we would love your help! Please register your attendance on the LoCo Team Directory Summit Jam event. For those participating remotely, we plan on using #ubuntu-uds on irc.freenode.net as the channel for discussion. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me on IRC at ‘cjohnston’ on freenode.