XPDS14: State of Xen Project (Developer Summit 2014)

Lars Kurth Community Manger, Xen Project Chairman, Xen Project Advisory Board Director, Open Source Business Office, Citrix

lars_kurth

Host Sponsor

Platinum Sponsor + Evening Reception

Gold Sponsor

BoF’s Take a marker and fill in one of the slots

If you host a BoF: be there, take notes, post on the list(s)

BoF’s Take a marker and fill in one of the slots

Lunch Not provided Lots of places within 250 metres

BoF’s Take a marker and fill in one of the slots

Lunch Not provided Lots of places within 250 metres

Evening Party Bellwether (302 E Illinois St, Chicago, IL 60611) – across the road

Developer Meeting : Wed morning wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Developer_Meeting/Aug2014

The impact of moving the Project to the Linux Foundation Success Stories : Metrics and Implications

Challenges that we are facing as a community

What is Next?

What was the impact of moving the project to the Linux Foundation?

Vinovyn @ Flickr

Developer Community largely unaffected Except for growth and implications

An extra layer of Governance Hugely increased visibility through Marketing Funding for “Common Goods” problems Developing Messaging/Positioning for the project

Improved Relationships, More Collaboration More participation from different vendors at Events Marketing is becoming a shared activity

User community engaging more Blog posts, Q&A system, … - many “green shoots”

Companies Community

•  PR / AR / Marketing / Messaging

•  Membership Rules / Trademarks / Legal

•  Provide funds to solve “Common Good” problems

•  Referee of last resort

•  Principles (aka Values) •  Roles

•  Decision Making

•  Project Lifecycle

•  Community Initiatives, Best Practices, …

Advisory Board WGs

Test WG

PR WG

TCT

Project Governance

Secure the long term success of the Xen Project eco-system

Drive momentum of Xen Project and its sub-projects [Hypervisor, XAPI, Mirage OS]

Sustain Industry Awareness of Xen Project

Expand Direct Involvement of

User Community with Xen Project

Grow eco-system directory to demonstrate

Momentum

Grow Developer Community by

10%

Deliver Value to Xen Project

Advisory Board Members

Primary Goals: Secondary Goals:

PR and Marketing: $119 K

Increase Xen Project skills (OPW, etc.): $40 K Supporting the Community: $35 K

Independently Hosted Test Infrastructure: $165 K Operational: $6 K

Total: $365 K

The last 12 months in numbers

0 200 400 600 800

1000 1200 1400

Q1 '13 Q2' 13 Q3' 13 Q4' 13 Q1 '14 Q2 '14 July'14

Impact of AB funding

Drives Interest & User Adoption & Contributions

Average monthly web visits grew by 30%

Social Media following grew by 47%

Commits & unique Authors per month across PVOPS (Xen Project files only) Hypervisor XAPI Mirage OS

Skewed because different sub-projects use different average size commits

http://bitergia.com/projects/xen-project-dashboard/browser/ – use with care – still some issues

Xen-­‐devel  :  Messages  per  Month   Contributors  /  Authors  per  Month  

Commits  per  Month  

Authors and traffic list are increasing On “commits”: feedback from maintainers suggests a review bottleneck

Ohloh.net and xen.markmail.org

Highest  ever  

Linux: 0.73 è 0.61 KVM1: 1.54 è ???

1) http://wpcme.coverity.com/wp-content/uploads/2012-Coverity-Scan-Report.pdf - no newer data

Windows PV Driver project Lead: Paul Durrant (Citrix) Infrastructure only partly in place

Embedded and Automotive PV Driver project Lead: Artem Mygaiev (GlobalLogic) Infrastructure not yet in place Launched today, with further launch activities in the next 2 week

Mirage OS picking up momentum PVOPS and Xen on ARM achieved initial goals

for our Community

Maria Ly @ Flickr

Up to 1 week 1 to 2 weeks 2 to 3 weeks 3 to 6 weeks 6 to 13 weeks More than 13 weeks

48%

17%

9% 9% 8% 9%

43%

15%

10% 13%

11% 8%

July 2013 - Jan 2014 Feb 2014 - Aug 2013

Have no way to measure patches under review

The monthly average doubled

Don’t want to split the community by introducing new lists

Europe – US – location switch not working (9 months – 15 months – 9 months – …)

Dividing the summit into developer – user summit?

Feel free to raise everything that isn’t working there

Vacancies and skills Number of open vacancies is increasing Perception: Xen Project requires special skills vs. Linux

Translating media momentum into new users Ease of use Onboarding and documentation Better distro integration

Independently Hosted Test Infrastructure Suppliers sourced Budget proposal in place Can start executing

Messaging and Positioning Advisory Board has been working on key messages and positioning

First Analyst Meeting In September (or maybe aligned with a large event)

www.slideshare.net/xen_com_mgr/