Archive for April, 2016

Lwood-20160424

Introduction

Welcome to Last week on OpenStack Dev (“Lwood”) for the week just past. For more background on Lwood, please refer here.

Basic Stats for week 18 to 24 April 2016:

  • ~752 Messages (up about 19% relative to last week)
  • ~190 Unique threads (down about 2% relative to last week)

The overall Thread count was about the same, but a couple of quite long threads upped the Message count significantly.

Notable Discussions

Winding down the kolla-mesos project ?

It looks like the kolla-mesos project faces an uncertain future.  In a post earlier in the week Steve Dake notes that the major implementers of the project “don’t intend to continue its development within the Kolla project governance” and so development is being scaled back.

Sergey Lukanov clarifies things midweek in his post – seemingly efforts are now instead being put into a kubernetes based approach which will be developed with the relevant upstream projects.

Even if the specific projects involved aren’t particularly on your radar, Sergey’s post and the brief discourse that follows make an interesting read and a good example (IMHO) of pragmatic decision making.  Likewise the thread following Steve’s post provides a good summary of what standard practice is nowadays for a project being wound up.

Summit Preparations aplenty

As one might expect, a bunch of project specific posts flagging the whereabouts of relevant etherpads, formal and informal meetings and the like.

I’m not sure I’ve captured all of them, so I’d encourage you do your own quick search, but posts I did find included Heat, TripleO, Puppet, OpenStack-Operators and Glance.

I also note there were many cancellation notices for standing meetings – once again double check but whatever OpenStack project meeting you’d normally have, is probably off for this coming week at least!

Party Party Party!

Michael Krotscheck notes that HPE are looking for sponsors to continue the Core Party after Austin.

As the thread goes on to discuss, the Core Party has been a somewhat contentious event, seen by many as being at odds with the inclusionary nature of the OpenStack Community – this no reflection on the organisation sponsoring it more it’s existence at all as I read it.

The thread goes on to note that one desirable aspect of the parties has been the opportunity it presented for a quiet conversation.  Tom Fifield helpfully points out that there will be spaces at the Tuesday night “Street Party” that will facilitate this very thing with some quiet spaces where the music isn’t so loud.

Users Managing Users

Adrian Turjak wrote an introduction to StackTask – a project that will “allow users to self manage additional users and roles on their projects without being admin, but in future will grow to handle other normally admin restricted tasks.“

It’s all Open Source software, well tested (in use in production), uses Keystone underneath so isn’t re-inventing the wheel and, usefully, is easily pluggable/extensible.

The user management piece is up and running – and what the authors required primarily, but they look to now be shifting their efforts toward a richer feature set.  Worth a look :)

Proposal for a Massively Distributed Cloud Working Group

Adrien Lebre penned a proposal for the creation of a new Working Group to provide a forum to discuss massively distributed (or the so called Fog/Edge Computing paradigm) use cases.  The main distinction to current large scale deployment working groups looks to be the emphasis on geographical (WAN-wide) distribution of resources and the attendant issues this introduces.

There will be a presentation or two at the Summit this week in Austin as well as a proposed face to face session on Tuesday afternoon at same.

L3 High Availability testing at beyond desktop scale

Ann Kamyshnikova’s email announced the results of some interesting work she’s been doing on a 49 node system (3 controllers, 46 compute) looking at the performance of Neutron.

The ensuing thread discussed the results and also flagged the availability of a large (100’s of nodes) cluster that is available to all through OSIC.

Release Hiatus until 2 May

Doug Hellman reminds us that with the majority of the Release team travelling to Summit or about to, there will be no further releases until May 2nd unless anything dramatic crops up.

Upcoming OpenStack Events

Events wise, really “just” lots of discussion around the Austin summit :)

Don’t forget the OpenStack Foundation’s comprehensive Events Page for a comprehensive list that is frequently updated.

People and Projects

Core nominations & changes

Further Reading & Miscellanea

Don’t forget these excellent sources of OpenStack news – most recent ones linked in each case

This edition of Lwood brought to you from sunny Austin, Texas, USA, surrounded by my wonderful fellow OpenStack developers and users. No tunes other than what drifted up from 6th Street one evening when I was working on it a little earlier in the week :)

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Lwood-20160417

Introduction

Welcome to Last week on OpenStack Dev (“Lwood”) for the week just past. For more background on Lwood, please refer here.

Basic Stats for week 11 to 17 April 2016:

  • ~634 Messages (up about 3% relative to last week)
  • ~194 Unique threads (up nearly 3% relative to last week)

Steady as it goes this week on the list and a particularly short Lwood as it turns out.

Notable Discussions

Gaming Stackalytics Stats – continued

The thread kicked off last week by Davanum Srinivas and reported in last weeks Lwood continued a little this week.  If it was of interest I’d commend spending a few minutes to read the remainder – one option being canvassed informally was to revert to the default Stackalytics view being based on Commits for a while.

PTL Communications

Most of us aren’t PTLs but if you’re curious about some of the expectations placed on the folk that perform this valuable work for the OpenStack community, Doug Hellman wrote a summary of the expectations around release related communications for PTLs that you might find interesting.

Design Summit Preparation – Etherpads

As one would expect – a few emails this week in preparation for the upcoming summit in Austin.  Most were project specific but Matt Riedman helpfully advised that he’d stubbed out the Newton Design Summit Etherpad pages here.

Upcoming OpenStack Events

Events wise, really “just” lots of discussion around the summit in Austin later this month.

Don’t forget the OpenStack Foundation’s comprehensive Events Page for a comprehensive list that is frequently updated.

People and Projects

Core nominations & changes

Further Reading & Miscellanea

Don’t forget these excellent sources of OpenStack news

This edition of Lwood brought to you by the sounds of a hammer drill in the hotel room next to mine and miscellaneous noises of the fair city of Melbourne, Australia.

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Lwood-20160410

Introduction

Welcome to Last week on OpenStack Dev (“Lwood”) for the week just past. For more background on Lwood, please refer here.

Basic Stats for week 4 to 10 April 2016:

  • ~615 Messages (down nearly 12% relative to last week)
  • ~189 Unique threads (down around 20% relative to last week)

A little quieter this week on the list and my cold/flu has finally just about gone :)

Notable Discussions

TC Elections

Tony Breeds reported the results of the TC elections that wrapped up late last week, the full results are available here.  The seven successful candidates were – Thierry Carrez, Morgan Fainberg, John Garbutt, Flavio Percoco, Mike Perez, Matthew Treinish and Davanum Srinivas.

In his post, Eoghan Glynn did some interesting post election analysis about voter participation rates, in short they seem to be dropping about 10% per election despite an average increase in voter base of more than 20% over the same period.  The thread continued a little with some discussion about the nature of the voter base (one time contributors to OpenStack vs more engaged contributors) and how this might be analysed in the future. All in all an interesting read.

Handling FPGAs as resources for Nova ?

Roman Dobosz kicked off an interesting thread about integrating FPGA resources into OpenStack through Nova.

With a growing interest in acceleration hardware of all sorts of different forms and end functions, it’s a matter of when not if we’ll need a well integrated and hardware agnostic way of doing this within OpenStack.

Pleasingly there seems to be a good range of voices in the discussion, at a cursory glance I saw mention of x86, ARM and POWER architectures as well as NFV, GPU and Crypto style use cases.  Interesting times! :)

Gaming Stackalytics Stats ?

Davanum Srinivas flagged some concerns around the potential for OpenStack contributors to “game” their statistics as reported by the popular Stackalytics website.  This kicked off quite an interesting thread – the nub of the issue being what appear to be somewhat arbitrary +1’s of proposed changes.

In the ensuing discussion it was pointed out that some guides for people new to OpenStack recommend, if informally, reviewing code to learn about it and then using +1 to flag you’ve done so.  Instead it’s been suggested that greater use be made of +0 which has traditionally been taken to mean either “I have a question” or “I’ve read this but not really equipped to judge”.

Upcoming OpenStack Events

Events wise, really “just” lots of discussion around the summit in Austin later this month.

Don’t forget the OpenStack Foundation’s comprehensive Events Page for a comprehensive list that is frequently updated.

People and Projects

Core nominations & changes

  • [Horizon] Proposing Rob Cresswell to Horizon core – Matthias Runge
  • [Ironic] Proposing Anton Arefiev to ironic-inspector-core – Dmitry Tantsur
  • [Neutron] Nominating Assaf Muller to Neutron core team – Armando M
  • [Neutron] Proposing Hirofumi Ichihara to Neutron core team – Akihiro Motoki

Further Reading & Miscellanea

Don’t forget these excellent sources of OpenStack news

This edition of Lwood brought to you by Al Di Meola (Electric Rendezvous), Pivotal Point (It Doesn’t Look Good on Paper) and Dire Straits (Telegraph Road, Making Movies) amongst other tunes.

 

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Lwood-20160403

Introduction

Welcome to Last week on OpenStack Dev (“Lwood”) for the week just past. For more background on Lwood, please refer here.

Basic Stats for week 28 March to 3 April 2016:

  • ~698 Messages (up about 9% relative to week of 21-27 March)
  • ~237 Unique threads (up about 15% relative to week of 21-27 March)

There was no Lwood for the period 21 March to 27 March  – I had a rotten cold/flu that put me out of action for pretty much the whole week.  By the time I felt vaguely well enough to read list traffic the moment seemed to have well and truly passed for the summary.  I’ve tried to at least capture the People and Projects related traffic from the “lost” week however and presented that in this edition.  Apologies for any inconvenience caused by the absence of last weeks’ edition and the late arrival of this one!

Notable Discussions

Not so much Swagger after all ?

Anne Gentle writes that plans to move to Swagger for API reference information is being reviewed in light of discovering it doesn’t match OpenStack’s current API designs as well as was first thought.  There are well advanced plans on where to go fro here – more specifics in Anne’s email.

Neutron being renamed ?

Jimmy Akin penned a timely warning for all that there are some issues with the Neutron name infringing on certain trademarks.  The ever efficient OpenStack community were quick to suggest alternatives, one of my favourites was the idea of using an alternative alphabet – hence it could become “Нетронь” or even “ניוטרון”

Seriously, if you want to see OpenStack collaboration at it’s finest, it doesn’t get much better than this thread.  Curiously though the conversation came to an abrupt halt around midday on April 1st.

Upcoming OpenStack Events

Unless I missed it there didn’t seem to be any new events mentioned on the list these last two weeks.  There is of course the summit in Austin later this month. Don’t forget the OpenStack Foundation’s comprehensive Events Page for a comprehensive list though!

People and Projects

Core nominations & changes

It wasn’t all PTLs and TCs these last couple of weeks…

TC Elections

As Tony Breeds noted here the period for submitting Candidate Proposals for election to the Technical Council kicked off on March 25, 00:00 UTC and remained open until April 1, 00:00 UTC.  Tristan Cacqueray formally noted the election open shortly thereafter – it will conclude later this week (April 7, 23:59 UTC) – that’s varying degrees of Thursday or Friday depending on where you are!

Of the outgoing TC members, Robert Collins, Jay Pipes and Mark McClain noted they would not be seeking re-election though thankfully all three intend to remain involved with OpenStack!

There are nineteen candidates in total vying for seven open positions on the TC.  They’re a well rounded and capable bunch so it’s likely to be a close election – we’ll know next week of course…

In alphabetical order they are; Anita Kuno (anteya), Carol Barrett (carolbarrett), Chris Dent (cdent), Davanum Srinivas (dims), David Lyle (david-lyle), Dean Troyer (dtroyer), Ed Leafe (edleafe), Flavio Percoco (flaper87), Gal Sagie (gsagie), Gordon Chung (gordc), Ildiko Vancsa (ildikov), John Garbutt (johnthetubaguy), Julien Danjou (jd__), Matthew Treinish (mtreinish), Mike Perez (thingee), Morgan Fainberg (morgan), Shamail Tahir (Shamail), Steven Dake (sdake) and Thierry Carrez (ttx).

Per Tristan’s email if you’re eligible to vote you should have already received an email with a link to do so.  Please exercise your OpenStack democratic right :)

PTL Election Results

The PTL Elections concluded last week, Tristan Cacqueray provided the good oil in his note here.

There are now 48 PTLs, up from 42 in the October 2015 Election – this a result of some new projects and the creation of the Stable Branch Maintenance role.  Three of the PTL roles were decided by the TC as no one came forward for the role – excellent folk were found though :)

A little spreadsheet munging yielded a few more stats and a couple of graphs as shown below.

 

Lwood-20160403-graph2

Further Reading & Miscellanea

Don’t forget these excellent sources of OpenStack news

Again my apologies for the absence of Lwood last week and the late arrival of this one.  Normal service will be resumed next week :)

This edition of Lwood brought to you by Burning For Buddy – A Tribute to the Music of Buddy Rich, Choirboys (Choirboys) and The Cult (Pure Cult) amongst other tunes.

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