OSAF Hosted Service Operations Overview

Hosted Service bugs tracked against Bugzilla for Cosmo 0.6

Hosted Service bugs tracked against Bugzilla but not yet targeted for release

Hosted Service bugs tracked against Bugzilla targeted for Future

4795	P2	NEW	add version negotiation to CMP	randy@osafoundation.org
4964	P3	NEW	quotas	randy@osafoundation.org
5350	P3	NEW	Enhancement request: Passwords via CMP	randy@osafoundation.org
5662	P4	NEW	Print key server config values in log on start	randy@osafoundation.org
6264	P2	NEW	network backup of user account	randy@osafoundation.org
7046	P4	NEW	Support "down for service" state for Cosmo	randy@osafoundation.org
7055	P3	NEW	Accounts can share email address	randy@osafoundation.org
7226	P4	NEW	Temp file leakage	randy@osafoundation.org
7227	P5	NEW	JMX HTTP/HTML adaptor in Snarf	randy@osafoundation.org
7444	P4	ASSIGNED	Direct navigation to users by first letter on /console/users	travis@osafoundation.org
8227	P3	ASSIGNED	Giving a bit of TLC to the admin console	travis@osafoundation.org

Hosted Service bugs in Bugzilla for Chandler

12401	P3	NEW	Google Calendar "Could not fetch the URL"	jeffrey@osafoundation.org
12975	P3	NEW	Error from mail server 'pop.secureserver.net' (GoDaddy?.com)	jeffrey@osafoundation.org

Hosted Service bugs in Bugzilla for Hosted Service

Active work items

• Hosted Service metrics planning^?
• Hosted Service team building: Work towards shared understanding of goals, issues, cooperation
  • Consider regular meetings
• Email integration planning
  • Email function definition in conjunction with PPD group
    • Email feasibility thread on design: http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-July/005020.html
    • Schedule time for stakeholders, PPD
  • Email operational notes
• Operational scaling planning
  • Discuss scaling models and Cosmo specifics on mailing lists
  • Develop clear picture of Cosmo scaling architecture and its specific deployment to the Hosted Service
• osaf.us production instance
  • Deploy new version of early Cosmo 0.5 as new production instance
  • Tracked via Bug#6554
  • Chandler changes need tracked via Bug#6555

Background work items

• Cosmo scaling
  • Hibernate-based backend for Cosmo persistence
  • Service locater layer for partitioning backend data among multiple physical databases (lookup user, get database to use)
  • Stateless Cosmo to allow identical application servers
  • Clustering caching for objects (users, resources, calendars, events)
  • Clustering of session state (using Tomcat's built-in facilities)
• File product requests
  • Chandler synchronization preferences more Mac style "frequently", "about every hour", "once a day"
  • Feature requests for monitoring/automation/qa/operations features for dev teams
  • Transaction logging for all Cosmo DAV methods, to demarcate when errors do occur
  • Need mechanism to turn on new signups
  • Need supported mechanism to overwrite homepage
  • Change Chandler default host to demo.osafoundation.org
• OSAF blog post regarding the service [Katie]
• Noodling on http://osaf.us/ prototype
• Split roadmap diagrams off of wiki home page onto separate page HostedServiceOpsRoadmapDiagrams^?
• Capital expense roadmap: [invite-only access] Details on proposed capital expenses, ie servers
• Interim branding
  • Should we A) stick with *-demo or B) switch to osaf.us temporarily and then switch again after brand finalization (end of 2006)?
  • Propose osaf.us temporary branding (replacing cosmo-demo.osafoundation.org)
    • Place new hostname into 0.7alpha5 account signups
    • Simple homepage with status of service, pointers to how to sign up
• Release definitions for the Hosted Service:
  • Alpha
  • Beta^?
  • 1.0^?
• Deployment planning (servers, network, diagrams, sizing)

On-deck work items

• Quantitative scaling model development (inputs eg num users, usage patterns; outputs eg bandwidth consumption, disk space usage)
• Branding (naming, hostnames, URLs) in conjunction with branding group
• Definition of product management metrics
• Definition of monitoring and automation work

Stalled work items

• Cosmo large-calendar PROPFIND speed with Cosmo team (stalled on Cosmo Hibernate rearchitecture)
• Cosmo MySQL^?-based load-balancing research with Cosmo team (stalled on Cosmo Hibernate rearchitecture)
• Bug #6264: CMP-based backups
• Work breakdown structure, and Gannt visualization (implemented as TaskJuggler project file) [not very valuable to current work]

Completed work items

• Presentation to OSAF staff on 2006-06-29
• Purchase of administrative/test VM server for Hosted Service on 2006-07-28
• OSAF bugzilla entry and configuration for Hosted Service [Katie] on 2006-07-26
• State of the Service posted to service-dev on 2006-08-15
• Sticky plan deprecated in favor of dynamic milestone map on 2006-08-22
• osaf.us proposal for temporary branding until Beta branding ready passed on 2006-08-23

Project visual roadmaps

The following diagrams are explorations of major work items and phases related to building out a Hosted Service for OSAF.

Very high level roadmap

OpenOffice Draw format | PDF format

High level roadmap

OpenOffice Draw format | OpenOffice Draw format

Current plans of record

• Don't think about hosting ads or placing ads until at 10K page views per day. (Resolution of "ads early or ads later" question is "ads later").
• Hostnames of service will be osaf.us until something else is chosen.
• We'll buy one big server for a production service box and one smaller server for an administrative/virtual-machines box (running xen).
• KEI will be running the NOC (Network Operations Center).

Presentations

Open issues

A separate page contains an overview of OSAF Hosted Service open issues.