XAPI Project for Developers

== Xen Cloud Platform Overview ==
Xen Cloud Platform offers ISVs and service providers a complete cloud infrastructure platform with a powerful management stack based on open, standards-based APIs, support for mutli-tenancy, SLA guarantees and detailed metrics for consumption based charging.
== The Team ==
Mike McClurg is currently the project lead for XCP. Go to XCP People to get a full list.
== Using XCP ==
The latest Xen Cloud Platform is available as source code or a bootable installer ISO from the download page.
=== Getting Started ===
* Introduction to XCP
* Download XCP
* Management Tools
* Feature differences between XCP and Citrix XenServer
=== Documentation ===
* XCP Documentation
* XCP How Tos
=== Support ===
* XCP community and support resources, including
** IRC Freenode: #xen-api
** XEN-API Mailing List: xen-api@lists.xensource.com ; add XCP to the subject line
== XCP Developers ==
As with any open source project, we welcome developers who want to participate in the project. A number of resources are available at:
* XAPI Developer Guide - XAPI Developer Guide
* XCP Building Instructions - Building Xen Cloud Platform from Source
* XCP Design and Architecture Docs - These are design documents that show how certain features work
* XCP community and support resources, including
** XEN-API Mailing List: xen-api@lists.xensource.com 
** Developer Mailing List: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com with XCP in subject line
** Xen.org Mailing List Archive - Xen Markmail Search
** IRC Groups - Freenode: ##xen and #xen-api
* Project Kronos
** XCP_toolstack_on_a_Debian-based_distribution
** Project Kronos - Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) Specification - Project Kronos Specification to be discussed at the next Ubuntu Developer Summit (for p-series)
** Ubuntu XCP Toolstack Improvements Spec - Specification for Q-Series UDS blueprint
* Project Zeus
** Like Project Kronos before it, Project Zeus aims to continue porting the XCP toolstack to multiple Linux distros. This time, we're porting to Fedora and CentOS.
** See the Project Zeus Fedora Spec for more details.
* Ubuntu's Juju -- XCP Service Provider
** This is a new project to create an XCP service provider for Juju, to allow sysadmins to easily provision services on XCP pools
** See the specification: Juju XCP Service Provider Spec
* XCP diagnostic messages - a proposed interface for a diagnostic console
If you are unsure, drop your friendly neighbourhood community manager a line at community.manager@xen.org 
=== Get Involved ===
There is quite a bit of interesting work to do around XCP. The following lists give you an idea: 
* XCP_Roadmap 
* XCP_Wishlist - List of development opportunities for XCP
== XCP Roadmap ==
The current XCP roadmap is available at XCP_Roadmap 
== Third Party Integrations ==
A list of 3rd party tools that support XCP, including Mangement Utilities, is available at XCP Projects.
== XCP Community Meetings ==
XCP used to run monthly community meetings. The next meeting is not currently scheduled. Please contact community.manager@xen.org if you would want to be included in a future meeting and/or have any specific issues to discuss. Past meetings were dial-in meetings, with active participation at Freenode: #xen-api on IRC. However we are open to suggestions for future meetings.
Previous Meeting Minutes - XCP Monthly Meetings
== Previous Release Data ==
See the XCP Archives for older releases and release notes.
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