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+=========================
+Train Project Priorities
+=========================
+
+List of priorities the Monasca drivers team is prioritizing in Train.
+
+The owners listed are responsible for tracking the status of that work and
+helping get that work done. They are not the only contributors to this work,
+and not necessarily doing most of the coding!
+
+The implementation progress on these priorities and other identified important
+tasks is tracked in `this board`_.
+
+.. _this board: https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/board/141
+
+Essential Priorities
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
++-------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
+| Title                                           | Owners                    |
++=================================================+===========================+
+| `Kafka client upgrade`_                         | witek                     |
++-------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
+| `Merge Monasca APIs`_                           | adriancz                  |
++-------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
+| `Middleware upgrade`_                           | dougsz                    |
++-------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
+| `Thresholding engine replacement (tech prev.)`_ |                           |
++-------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
+| `PDF generation for documentation`_             |                           |
++-------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
+
+High Priorities
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
++---------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
+| Title                                       | Owners                  |
++=============================================+=========================+
+| `Application credentials (Grafana)`_        | dougsz                  |
++---------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
+| `Application credentials (agent)`_          |                         |
++---------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
+| `Documentation refresh`_                    | joadavis                |
++---------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
+| `Java Persister deprecation`_               | joadavis                |
++---------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
+
+Optional Priorities
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
++---------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
+| Title                                       | Owners                  |
++=============================================+=========================+
+| `Monasca Events Agent`_                     |                         |
++---------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
+| New query language                          |                         |
++---------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
+| OpenStack CLI                               | sc                      |
++---------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
+| Reuse Prometheus dashboards                 |                         |
++---------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
+| Vitrage integration                         | chaconpiza              |
++---------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
+
+Backlog
+~~~~~~~
+
++---------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
+| Title                                       | Owners                  |
++=============================================+=========================+
+| Sharding model for InfluxDB                 | dougsz                  |
++---------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
+| OpenStack Helm                              |                         |
++---------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
+| OpenStack Ansible                           | sc                      |
++---------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
+| Senlin integration                          |                         |
++---------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
+| Gnocchi support                             |                         |
++---------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
+
+Details
+~~~~~~~
+
+Kafka client upgrade
+--------------------
+
+Currently, in all Python Monasca components, the copy of `kafka-python` library
+in version 0.9.5 (released on Feb 16, 2016) is used. Sticking with the old
+frozen client version is also unacceptable in terms of security. The goal is to
+upgrade the Apache Kafka client to `confluent-kafka-python`. This will
+dramatically improve the performance and reliability.
+
+Story: https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2003705
+
+Merge Monasca APIs
+------------------
+
+The goal is to merge all Monasca APIs into a single unified API to reduce
+maintenance overhead, make it easier for developers to add new features and
+improve the user experience.
+
+Story: https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2003881
+
+Middleware upgrade
+------------------
+
+We want to change the general approach and try to use the newest (stable)
+versions of software available. The beginning of the cycle is the good time
+point to upgrade components such as e.g.: Apache Kafka, InfluxDB, Apache
+Storm, ELK.
+
+Story: https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2005624
+
+Thresholding engine replacement (tech prev.)
+--------------------------------------------
+
+The goal of this task is to provide the technical preview of the new
+component replacing the current thresholding engine.
+
+Story: https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2005598
+
+PDF generation for documentation
+--------------------------------
+
+This is the community wide goal.
+
+https://governance.openstack.org/tc/goals/train/pdf-doc-generation.html
+
+Application credentials (Grafana)
+---------------------------------
+
+`Keystone appliction credentials <https://docs.openstack
+.org/keystone/latest/user/application_credentials.html>`_ offer the mechanism
+to allow applications to authenticate to Keystone. The ability to specify
+`access rules <http://specs.openstack
+.org/openstack/keystone-specs/specs/keystone/stein/capabilities-app-creds
+.html>`_ for application credentials is being developed and will be
+released in the Train cycle.
+
+The goal of this story is to add application credentials support in
+monasca-grafana-datasource. The access rules should be limited to only
+reading the measurements from Monasca. It will allow storing these
+credentials directly in the datasource without the security risk of revealing
+the OpenStack user's password. It will also decouple the datasource from
+Grafana's authentication.
+
+Story: https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2005623
+
+Application credentials (agent)
+-------------------------------
+
+`Keystone appliction credentials <https://docs.openstack
+.org/keystone/latest/user/application_credentials.html>`_ offer the mechanism
+to allow applications to authenticate to Keystone. The ability to specify
+`access rules <http://specs.openstack
+.org/openstack/keystone-specs/specs/keystone/stein/capabilities-app-creds
+.html>`_ for application credentials is being developed and will be
+released in the Train cycle.
+
+The goal of this story is to add application credentials support in
+*monasca-agent*. This will prevent the security risk of revealing OpenStack
+user's password when installing the agent on the tenants environment. The
+access rules of these application credentials should be limited to posting
+measurements. *monasca-setup* should be extended to automatically generate such
+credentials and save them in configuration file if needed.
+
+Documentation refresh
+---------------------
+
+Story: https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2005625
+
+Java Persister deprecation
+--------------------------
+
+Story: https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2005628
+
+Monasca Events Agent
+--------------------
+
+The goal is to extend Monasca Ceilometer project and add a new events publisher
+which will publish Openstack notifications (or events) to Monasca Events API.
+
+Story: https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/2003023