Archive for January, 2016

Lwood-20160124

January 25, 2016 at 17:49 · Filed under Lwood, OpenStack

Introduction

Welcome to Last week on OpenStack Dev (“Lwood”) for the week ending 24 January 2016. For more background on Lwood, please refer here.

Basic Stats for week 18 to 24 January 2016:

  • ~502 Messages (down about 16% relative to last week)
  • ~183 Unique threads (down a bit under 7% relative to last week)

List traffic bouncing around the average level again now :)

Notable Discussions

All hail Newton and Ocata!

Monty Taylor announced the names of the next two release cycles.  The N release – Newton – is named after “Newton House” a historic site in Austin, Texas.  The O release – Ocata – is the name of a beach (and, apparently, bar) 20 minutes train ride from Barcelona, Spain.  If you read this, and are going to be in Barcelona and are the first to email me, I’ll buy you a drink in Ocata :)

Stabilisation cycles – a call to move a good idea forward

Flavio Percoco kicked off a long but worthwhile thread on the idea of having stabilisation cycles where projects can focus on stabilising the code base and consolidating things versus so much emphasis on new features.

It’s a cogent and positive proposal as is the discussion that follows – it speaks usefully into the matter of paying down technical debt as well as recognising that a cycle without new features is not without its difficulties for some.

New Ceilometer Plugin

collectd-ceilometer-plugin, announced here by Emma Foley, is a plugin that (as the name suggests) makes system statistics gathered by collectd available to Ceilometer.  Definitely useful stuff :)

Progress on Tap as a Service (TaaS)

As a follow up to the demonstration of TaaS in Vancouver, Reedip Banerjee sent a brief update on the work being done by the team and invited feedback on the latest cut of the specification.

Release Countdown for week R-10

Doug Hellmann posted a reminder that teams should be focussing on wrapping up new feature work and stabilising recent additions to the codebase now the second milestone is behind us.  Please take a moment to read his post for the full details.

Recording release information for Independent/Un-Managed Projects

Also from Doug Hellman – a note that independent and unmanaged projects should be providing information about releases so the the releases repo can make it available for reference.

He notes in a later post that there are plans to automate this in the future based on tagging, but for now it’s a manual process.

Demo of Vitrage – a Root Cause Analysis engine for OpenStack

Vitrage was announced at the Mitaka Summit and a later post to the list provided some more information on the project (mentioned also in Lwood-20151122)

Last week Alexey Weyl posted an update to the list announcing the project’s first demo – an encouraging looking few minutes of YouTube footage of Vitrage showing topology information based on information from Nova.

Update on Cross-Project Specs and your project

Following on from his post of last week, Mike Perez notes with thanks to all involved that the Project Team Guide has now been approved.  As he goes on to say “…please coordinate with your team to sign up…”

Tip: parsing json in logs and elsewhere

Matt Riedemann’s post kicked off a brief but helpful discourse on how to make otherwise fairly impenetrable chunks of linenoise json more human readable.  A brief thread but if you’ve ever had to decypher logs with chunks of json in it, might just be your friend and an opportunity to learn a neat tip from others…

Upcoming OpenStack Events

A summary of OpenStack related events that cropped up on the mailing list this past week.  Don’t forget the OpenStack Foundation’s excellent Events Page for a comprehensive list!

Midcycles

People and Projects

Further Reading & Miscellanea

Don’t forget these excellent sources of OpenStack news

This edition of Lwood brought to you by Steve Winwood (Chronicles), Sting (Ten Summoner’s Tales), Thin Lizzy (Lizzy Killers, Thunder and Lightning) amongst other tunes.

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Lwood-20160117

January 18, 2016 at 17:40 · Filed under Lwood, OpenStack

Introduction

Welcome to Last week on OpenStack Dev (“Lwood”) for the week ending 17 January 2016. For more background on Lwood, please refer here.

Basic Stats for week 11 to 17 January 2016:

  • ~600 Messages (up about 21% relative to last week)
  • ~196 Unique threads (up about 31% relative to last week)

List traffic back to it’s “normal” level :)

Notable Discussions

New API guideline for review

There is one new API guideline ready for review that will be merged on January 21st in the absence of any further feedback. It’s linked below – if you’re doing virtually any GUI related coding (as a consumer or exposing things to a GUI) you’ll want to check this out;

Changing every repository ? There might be a better way!

Doug Hellman writes a well reasoned post noting that if your change requires tweaks/changes to many many repositories it’s a fair bet that there might be a better way to accomplish what is required.  He invites folk to start a conversation on openstack-dev when this occurs so that a broader consensus or solution can be reached.

Results of Foundation’s 2016 Individual Directors election announced

Jonathan Bryce advises that the results of the OpenStack Foundation’s individual Directors elections have been announced after the election concluded on Friday last week.  Congratulations to all the successful nominees.

Cross-Project Specs and your project

From Mike Perez, an update and call for review on the cross-project spec liaison efforts. To recap, the cross-project liaisons from each project are called on to watch the cross-project spec repo and keep an eye out for things that might affect their project and take action where appropriate.

API Working Group Refresher

Chris Dent contributes a nicely written refresher on what the API Working group does and therein an invitation to participate in the groups work.  For those unfamiliar, the working group is charged with, among other things, ensuring that OpenStack HTTP APIs adhere to standards and are consistent across OpenStack.

Upstream Development track at next summit

Thierry Carrez flagged the existence of a conference track specifically aimed at upstream OpenStack developers – those that contribute to to the OpenStack codebase itself.  It’s the Monday before the summit starts – the call for participation is up now.  Check it out! :)

Upcoming OpenStack Events

A summary of OpenStack related events that cropped up on the mailing list this past week.  Don’t forget the OpenStack Foundation’s excellent Events Page for a comprehensive list!

General Events

As far as I could see, no new general events mentioned this week.

Midcycles

People and Projects

Further Reading & Miscellanea

Don’t forget these excellent sources of OpenStack news

This edition of Lwood brought to you by Toto (Toto XIV), Trevor Rabin (Can’t Look Away) and Eric Clapton (August) amongst other tunes.

 

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Lwood-20160110

January 11, 2016 at 23:09 · Filed under Lwood, OpenStack

Introduction

Welcome to Last week on OpenStack Dev (“Lwood”) for the week ending 10 January 2016. For more background on Lwood, please refer here.

Basic Stats for week 4 to 10 January 2016:

  • ~496 Messages (up about 246% relative to last week)
  • ~150 Unique threads (up about 127% relative to last week)

Traffic well on it’s way to pre-end of year levels.  Welcome back! :)

Notable Discussions

Release countdown for week R-12

Doug Hellman pens a short reminder of what should be occurring ahead of the Mitaka 2 deadline next week.

Temporary issues with Stackalytics ?

Joe Huang notes some apparent issues with the popular Stackalytics website – Jay Pipes subsequently points out that most of the Mirantis folk are on leave until the 10th, so presumably things will be sorted out quickly thereafter :)

This appears to be affecting both project and individual stats – the latter seemingly not being updated since December 31st.

Austin Panel Session on automatic config file generation ?

Kendall J Nelson sensibly suggests having a session at the Austin summit to further unify the automatic generation of config files.  The subsequent conversation went a little off topic, mostly looking at why Cinder did things differently, but perhaps the fact it did underscores the need for a bit of IRL discussion on it ? :)

Vision and changes for OpenStack API Guides

Anne Gentle writes that there is a lot going on this cycle in the area of OpenStack API Guides and API References and of a cross platform meeting tuesday (12 January) to discuss some of the work planned.  Please take a quick look at what’s going on – the information in question is one of the more important public facing bits of OpenStack after all.

Upcoming OpenStack Events

A summary of OpenStack related events that cropped up on the mailing list this past week.  Don’t forget the OpenStack Foundation’s excellent Events Page for a comprehensive list!

General Events

Once again a reminder that many projects and working groups were cancelling or altering the schedule of their regular IRC meetings for the period spanning the last week of December 2015 into early January 2016.  I believe most meetings are now back on, but check to be sure :)

Midcycles

People and Projects

Further Reading & Miscellanea

Don’t forget these excellent sources of OpenStack news – Mike’s summary makes a welcome return, Lana and Jay’s efforts remain on vacation as far as I’m aware so links are to the most recent edition :)

This edition of Lwood brought to you by the now sadly departed David Bowie (Best of Bowie), David Foster (The Symphony Sessions) amongst other tunes.

 

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Lwood-20160103

January 4, 2016 at 16:28 · Filed under Lwood, OpenStack

Introduction

Welcome to Last week on OpenStack Dev (“Lwood”) for the week ending 3rd January 2016. For more background on Lwood, please refer here.

Basic Stats for week 28 December 2015 to 3 January 2016:

  • ~143 Messages (down about 53% relative to last week)
  • ~66 Unique threads (down about 45% relative to last week)

A very quiet week on the list, quietest I’ve seen since starting Lwood mid last year :)

Notable Discussions

And there was silence!

Well this is a bit awkward – the list was really quiet this week past as noted above and so nothing that would normally fit into this section.

This of course isn’t to say there wasn’t good work done or even that there was no useful activity, quite the contrary, but of the 66 or so individual posts/threads but pretty much all of it was either project logistics or bug triage / “tech support” style discussions.

I plan on a deeper analysis for sometime around the anniversary edition of Lwood, but for the curious here are some openstack-dev stats based on data since late June 2016;

  • An average of 565 messages a week (or about 80 a day)
  • An average of 171 threads per week (or about 25 a day)
  • Last week was just 25% of the message and 38% of the thread count of an average week
  • Total messages drop by 50-80% relative to average during the week of a summit

Upcoming OpenStack Events

A summary of OpenStack related events that cropped up on the mailing list this past week.  Don’t forget the OpenStack Foundation’s excellent Events Page for a comprehensive list!

General Events

Once again a reminder that many projects and working groups are cancelling or altering the schedule of their regular IRC meetings for the period spanning the last week of December 2015 into early January 2016.

Those I’m aware of are listed below, but worth double checking any that you usually attend to save that unnecessary early morning start or late night :)

  • From this week: Murano
  • From Lwood-20151227: Nova, CloudKitty, Telemetry, Neutron, Ironic, Cross Project Meeting, Vitrage, Puppet, Watcher, Cinder and Sahara
  • From Lwood-21051220: NFV, TelcoWG, Neutron, DVR, Searchlight, Horizon, Glance, Fuel, QA, Performance, Nova, Tacker, Stable, Freezer, Lbaas and Octavia

Midcycles

People and Projects

No proposals for acceptance to core or people leaving projects noted this week.

Further Reading & Miscellanea

Don’t forget these excellent sources of OpenStack news – all three are currently on vacation so links are to the most recent edition :)

This rather short edition of Lwood brought to you by Robert Plant (Now and Zen) amongst other tunes.

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