The ManageIQ Sprint 50 review details the progress and updates across various components such as the Classic UI, Service UI, and Automate features from December 5, 2016. Key achievements include 311 pull requests merged, upcoming community events, and enhancements in APIs for better functionality. Additionally, improvements in quality engineering resulted in a notable reduction in open issues, contributing to better overall release stability.

1. ManageIQ
Sprint 50 Review - Sprint End December 5, 2016
December 7, 2016

2. Overview
● Sprint Statistics (Oleg Barenboim)
● Community Update (Carol Chen)
● Classic UI (Harpreet Kataria)
● Service UI (Chris Kacerguis)
● Providers (Greg Blomquist)
● Automate (Greg McCullough)
● Platform (Gregg Tanzillo)
● API (Alberto Bellotti)
● Storage (Rich Oliveri)
● Quality Engineering (Dave Johnson)
● Discussion

3. Sprint Statistics
(O. Barenboim)
311 Pull Requests Merged for ManageIQ/manageiq

4. PR Breakdown by Feature Category
(O. Barenboim)
* Note that some PRs
have more than one
category.
Providers

5. Sprint Comparison
(O. Barenboim)
Darga-2
Darga-3
DargaGA
DargaRC
Darga-4
EuweBeta
EuweRC1
EuweRC2
Darga-5

6. All Repo Stats
(O. Barenboim)
Repo PRs Closed
manageiq 311
integration_tests 47
manageiq-ui-service 29
manageiq-gems-pending 20
manageiq.org 12
manageiq-providers-amazon 8
manageiq_docs 7
manageiq-providers-azure 7
ui-components 6
manageiq-pods 4
manageiq-api-client 3
manageiq-appliance 3
manageiq-providers-lenovo 3
manageiq-release 3
ovirt 3
manageiq-api-client-python 2
manageiq-appliance-build 2
more_core_extensions 2
ovirt_metrics 2
wrapanapi 2
azure-armest 1
guides 1
query_relation 1
Total 470

7. Community Update
(Carol Chen)
● Recent meetups
○ NLUUG fall conference (Nov 17, Utrecht) - Mike Hulsman talked about ManageIQ
https://twitter.com/mhulsman66/status/802244307298045952
○ GDG DevFest (Dec 2-3, Madrid) - Sergio Ocón presented “Collaborating in ManageIQ”
● Upcoming events
○ DevConf.CZ (Jan 27-29, 2017, Brno) - 5 ManageIQ-related proposals submitted
○ FOSDEM (Feb 4-5, 2017, Brussels) - 5 ManageIQ-related proposals submitted
● F-release
○ 45 votes for Reuben Fine (out of 98 total votes)
○ The next release will be a Fine release!
● D and E-releases
○ Euwe RC2 released Nov 21:
http://manageiq.org/blog/2016/11/Announcing-Euwe-Release-Candidate-2/
○ Darga 5 released Dec 5: http://manageiq.org/blog/2016/12/Announcing-Darga-5/
● LWIMIQ
○ http://manageiq.org/blog/tags/LWIMIQ/

8. Community Update
(Carol Chen)
● Website traffic
● Note: pageviews for talk.manageiq.org before Nov 2016 are extrapolated, as
previously top-level stats (for both manageiq.org and talk.manageiq.org) were
grouped together in Google Analytics.
Manageiq.org
# pageviews
MoM
change
% pageviews
to /docs/
Talk.manageiq.org
# pageviews
MoM
change
Sept 2016 16090 31% 6887
Oct 2016 28796 79% ⬆ 52% 8796 28% ⬆
Nov 2016 30919 7.4% ⬆ 53% 8177 7% ⬇

9. Classic UI
(Harpreet Kataria)
● PRs merged (170)
○ Bugs (102)
○ Enhancements (14)
○ Tech Debt / Refactoring (31/13)
○ Backported to EUWE (29)
● Bug Fixes
○ Several issues fixed around new patternfly timelines and rendering
timelines in IE
○ Regressions from VM tree changes
○ Some fixes/changes around console buttons
○ I18n updates
○ Lots of EUWE fixes

10. Classic UI
(Harpreet Kataria)
● Tech Debt / Refactoring
○ Several controllers were updated to use Generic Mixins such as
GenericSessionMixin, GenericListMixin, GenericShowMixin,
GenericButtonMixin etc. This is a Work in Progress.
○ Removed calls to get_vmdb_config() and use Settings class directly thru
out the controllers & helpers
○ Change menu roles editor to use TreeBuilderMenuRoles class
○ Toolbar refactoring in PXE, Ansible, Foreman related screens
○ Refactored Start page url related code, moved it into mixins.

11. Classic UI
(Harpreet Kataria)
● Enhancements
○ Power operations in Service Detail view (in SUI)
○ Launch an URL returned by an automate button
○ Ad hoc metrics for Container Providers
○ “Custom Logos" screen updated to use bootstrap-switch

12. Classic UI
(Harpreet Kataria)
Power operations in Service Detail view (in SUI)

13. Classic UI
(Harpreet Kataria)
Launch a URL returned by an automate button
Example usage from automate:
create a custom button with the check box "Open URL" checked
attach a method to it with the text below:
$evm.root['vm'].remote_console_url = 'http://www.redhat.com'

14. Classic UI
(Harpreet Kataria)
Ad hoc metrics for Container Providers

15. Service UI
(Chris Kacerguis)
● Several bugs fixes
● Moved many Angular directives to components
● Increased test coverage to 59%
● Code Quality to 4.0
● Completed many designs for the F release

16. Service UI
(Chris Kacerguis)
● Added support for viewing information about a VM

17. Service UI
(Chris Kacerguis)
● Added support for pagination (faster page loads)

18. Providers
(Greg Blomquist)

19. Providers - Containers
(Greg Blomquist)
Custom Attributes Table

20. Providers - Bug Fixes
(Greg Blomquist)

21. Providers - Other Updates
(Greg Blomquist)
Fix Targeted Refresh for VM Delete
Expanding Inventory Refresh
Delete Resources associated to VMs

22. Providers - General
(Greg Blomquist)
Researching new inventory refresh strategies
Data Warehouse Management
Containers and Hawkular teams
CloudSubnet SupportsFeatureMixin
OpenStack team

23. Automate
(Greg McCullough)
AnsibleTower
● Support provider name & template name to uniquely
identify a template
● Logging improvements
○ Implemented debug logging
○ Improved logging on errors

24. Automate
(Greg McCullough)
● Use CatalogItemInitialization as the default entry point
for Orchestration and AnsibleTower provisioning
● Notification for Service and VM Retirement starting
● Refactoring Automate methods
○ Improved testability
○ Cloud / Orchestration / Operations

25. Automate
(Greg McCullough)
Service Models
● Move snapshot code to Vm model to support RHV
features
● Expose custom_attribute methods on
ext_management_system
○ custom_keys
○ custom_get
○ custom_set
● Expose miq_groups relationship from User model
○ expose :miq_groups, :association => true

26. Automate
(Greg McCullough)
Engine
● Add transaction around the automate import_domain
method
● RBAC support for Automate Service Models

27. Automate
(Greg McCullough)
RBAC Feature
● Filters access to objects based on current automate
user.
● Set at the workspace level, setting persists across
methods.
● Disabled by default
○ Automate Methods can call
■ $evm.enable_rbac
■ $evm.disable_rbac
■ $evm.rbac_enabled?

28. Platform
(Gregg Tanzillo)

29. Platform
(Gregg Tanzillo)
Enhancements / Bug Fixes
● External Authentication
○ Addressed bugs introduced by CentOS 7.3
○ Fix for One Time Password support
● Chargeback
○ More refactoring
○ Calculations - rounding, averages

30. Platform
(Gregg Tanzillo)
Enhancements / Bug Fixes
● Appliance Console
○ Fixed wording and default around option for running as
a standalone database server
● Settings technical debt -
○ Replaced deprecated calls with new class#method
○ Controllers and models
VMDB::Config.new("vmdb").config => ::Settings

31. API
(Alberto Bellotti)
● API bumped to the “Fine” 2.4.0-pre version
GET /api
{
"name": "API",
"description": "REST API",
"version": "2.4.0-pre",
"versions": [
{
"name": "2.4.0-pre",
"href": "http://localhost:3000/api/v2.4.0-pre"
}
],
…
}

32. API
(Alberto Bellotti)
● Added support for DateTime filtering
Implemented via the filter[]= parameter.
■ filter[]=attr operator value
■ For <, > and = operators
■ Works on DateTime attributes for the collection being queried
■ Value formats support the following subset of ISO-8601
● YYYY-MM-DD
● YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ
GET /api/vms?vendor=’redhat’&filter[]=retires_on<2016-12-31

33. API
(Alberto Bellotti)
● Added option to hide resources in responses
Needed for Service-UI where simply a count and subcount is needed for a query without needing
the resources themselves.
● Provided via the hide parameter, similar syntax as expand, and supporting the resources
value as follows:
GET /api/services?filter[]=service_id=nil&hide=resources

34. API
(Alberto Bellotti)
● Policies creation now require the mode attribute
POST /api/policies
{
“name” : “sample policy”,
“description” : “sample policy”,
“mode” : “compliance”,
“towhat” : “ManageIQ::Providers::Redhat::InfraManager”,
“conditions_ids” : [ 1, 2 ]
}

35. Storage
(Rich Oliveri)
● In the UI, categorize storage by type.
○ Storage exports categorized by type: block, object, file share, etc.
○ Storage managers categorized by type of storage they export.
■ A given storage manager can export multiple types, thus appearing
in multiple categories.
○ Demo (Jerry Keselman)

36. Quality Engineering
(Dave Johnson)
○ Seeing a 10% reduction in total open issues
■ ~20% reduction of high impacting issues
○ Bug re-triage effort identified next top (~75) issues for
developer to begin to chase over the next sprint
○ Prototyped new defect weighting metric to help with
the prioritization of issues, rolling out this next sprint
○ Stability of overall release looking much better!

37. Quality Engineering
(Dave Johnson)
Continual decrease in the incoming rate over this last sprint

38. Quality Engineering
(Dave Johnson)
Automation
○ Progress made towards tracking down and fixing the infinite spinners / ui
quirks introduced from tree re-factor
■ Kudos to Pete for being tenacious enough to stick with it and find it.
■ Still a few more to chase but should be easier now to debug

39. Discussion
Sprint 51 Review - January 4
Sprint 51 will be 4 weeks instead of 3