Archive for July, 2016

Lwood-20160724

July 25, 2016 at 10:05 · Filed under Lwood, OpenStack

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 July 2016 for openstack-dev:

  • ~515 Messages (up about 32% relative to last week)
  • ~175 Unique threads (up a percent – basically the same as last week)

A busier week in terms of overall traffic, but the number of unique threads about the same and relatively less to note in Lwood this time around.

A reminder that for the next four weeks or so Lwood may arrive a little later than usual – I’m in the US and so it may not always be practical to get things out the door Sunday afternoon/evening… :)

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

New OpenStack Security Notice

Repeated token revocation requests can lead to service degradation or disruption (OSSN 0068)

From the summary “There is currently no limit to the frequency of keystone token revocations that can be made by a single user, in any given time frame. If a user repeatedly makes token requests, and then immediately revokes the token, a performance degradation can occur and possible DoS (Denial of Service) attacks could be directed towards keystone.”

More information and discussion in the original post or the OSSN itself.

Midcycle Summaries & Minutes

A few posts this week with minutes and/or summaries of mid cycles held these last few weeks for Cinder (Kendall Nelson), Horizon (Rob Cresswell) and Monasca (Fabio Giannetti).

More on project mascots

A few more projects kicked off the process of deciding on Mascots/Logos, as mentioned last week this all stemmed from a post by Heidi Joy Tretheway from the OpenStack Foundation.

The new threads included Charms, Cinder, Manila, Murano, Requirements, Tacker, Telemetry and Tricircle.

If you’re curious last week saw these per project threads for Ansible, App-Catalog, Congress, Designate, Freezer, Glance, Horizon, Kolla, Mistral, Neutron, Puppet, Sahara,Vitrage and Zaqar.

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

Nothing on the other lists that struck me as good Lwood material (this not, of course to say there were no useful conversations!! :)Upcoming OpenStack Events

Midcycle

Don’t forget the OpenStack Foundation’s Events Page for a list of general events 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

A little plug – as I mentioned last week, I’ve submitted a talk proposal for the Barcelona OpenStack summit titled “Finding your way around the OpenStack-Dev mailing list”  If approved, in the session I will provide a bit of a guide for newcomers (and old hands) to navigating around the various OpenStack related mailing lists, openstack-dev in particular as well as some other useful stuff. This of course all based on my work on Lwood.  When voting goes live for the summit, I’d welcome your support if you think the proposed talk sounds worthwhile – link to follow :)

This edition of Lwood brought to you by the sounds of silence (well ambient noise at my friends place aside… ;)

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Lwood-20160717

July 18, 2016 at 10:54 · Filed under Lwood, OpenStack

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 July 2016 for openstack-dev:

  • ~388 Messages (up about 25% relative to last week)
  • ~173 Unique threads (up about 35% relative to last week)

List traffic picked up quite a bit relative to last week, but total message count still down around 32% relative to the long term average of 562 messages per week since I started keeping track in late June 2015.

Note that for the next five weeks or so Lwood may arrive a little later than usual – I’m in the US and so it may not always be practical to get things out the door Sunday afternoon/evening… :)

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

Minor technical issues with Naming Polls

Monty Taylor pointed out there’s been some minor issues with the naming polls for P and Q.  These look to be resolved and new emails are going out for Q with P to follow shortly thereafter.

Openstack Stewardship Working Group (SWG)

Amrith Kumar wrote early in the week announcing the kick-off meeting of the OpenStack Stewardship Working Group.

As Amrith explains, the SWG was set up by the TC with the intent that this small group would “review the leadership, communication, and decision making processes of the TC and OpenStack projects as a whole, and propose a set of improvements to the TC.”  He goes on to note that anyone interested in these areas is welcome to join the Working Group.

Project Mascots

Heidi Joy Tretheway announced that the OpenStack Foundation is encouraging projects to choose a mascot to be used as a logo for the project and making an illustrator available to assist in creating them if desired.  As she clarifies in a subsequent post it’s all optional, no requirement to replace existing logos/mascots if projects already have them, and, yes, there will be stickers made available :)

This in turn kicked off a flurry of per project threads about choosing mascots/logos including these for Ansible, App-Catalog, Congress, Designate, Freezer, Glance, Horizon, Kolla, Mistral, Neutron, Puppet, Sahara,Vitrage and Zaqar.

Sing in the streets of Barcelona!

Well not necessarily in the streets, but as a musician I could hardly pass up mentioning Neil Jerram’s post in which he invites anyone interested in doing some singing while in Barcelona to flag their interest in the etherpad. Neil’s making this open and inclusive and urges people not to exclude themselves on the basis of style of music or ability.

In case the prospect of hearing me sing puts you off getting involved (or even attending the Summit) don’t sweat it – it’s not a given that I’m able to attend this time around and if I do I promise to sing tunefully :)

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

High Performance / Parallel File Systems panel at Summit

Interested in High Performance / Parallel File Systems ? Blair Bethwaite floats the idea of a panel session for Barcelona dealing with this very topic over on the OpenStack-Operators list.

Upcoming OpenStack Events

Midcycle

No new midcycle – related messages this week as far as I could see other than minor logistics for events already mentioned in Lwood.

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

People and Projects

Core nominations & changes

  • [Ansible] – Nominating Jean-Philippe Evrard for core in openstack-ansible and all openstack-ansible-* roles – Jesse Pretorius
  • [Fuel] Nominate Alexey Stepanov for fuel-qa and fuel-devops core – Andrey Sledzinskiy
  • [L2GW][Neutron] New core team member Ofer Ben-Yaakov – Sukhdev Kapur

Further Reading & Miscellanea

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

A little plug – I’ve submitted a talk proposal for the Barcelona OpenStack summit titled “Finding your way around the OpenStack-Dev mailing list”  If approved, in the session I will provide a bit of a guide for newcomers (and old hands) to navigating around the various OpenStack related mailing lists, openstack-dev in particular as well as some other useful stuff. This of course all based on my work on Lwood.  When voting goes live for the summit, I’d welcome your support if you think the proposed talk sounds worthwhile – link to follow :)

This edition of Lwood brought to you by Freddy Mercury (Barcelona) among other tunes.

 

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Lwood-20160710

July 11, 2016 at 18:06 · Filed under Lwood, OpenStack

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 July 2016 for openstack-dev:

  • ~311 Messages (down about 41% relative to last week)
  • ~128 Unique threads (down about 25% relative to last week)

Much like last year around this time, the list quite a lot quieter due to various public holidays in North America and general summer holiday goodness elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere :)

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

Bringing Murano-dashboard and Horizon App-catalog-UI closer

Kirill Zaitsev follows up discussions begun in Austin about bringing the Murano’s Dashboard and Horizon’s App Catalog closer together.  The long term goal seems to be to avoid duplication of effort with a more immediate goal of a more consistent user experience.

An update on Open vSwitch support in Ansible

Travis Truman flagged email a blog post he’s done that describes some of the testing and setup he did in his home lab to experiment with this recently added functionality.  It’s a good read and a nice way to get a feel for what this addition to Ansible provides.

Leadership Training recap

Collette Alexander wrote a summary of what happened last week at the leadership training session that had been organised by the OpenStack Foundation.  Amrith Kumar’s blog post is a good read too – and is imaginatively titled “The OpenStack TC will NOT be opening a deli!” :)

Retiring the Nova-Docker project

Dims Srinivas kicked off a thread noting that based on the project apparently being barely active he’d kick off the process of retiring the process.  A little discussion ensued, some in favour, some in dissent but all quite constructive – it’ll be interesting to see where things fetch up.

Want to present a lightning talks in Barcelona ?

If you do then Mike Perez’s email is the place to go for all the details :)

Successful bug squash for StoryBoard

Zara Zaimeche posted an update on the recent bug squash the StoryBoard project held recently.  Sounds like it was very successful and one of the features – an improved UI for the comments and events timeline is indeed pretty slick.  The link in Zara’s email wasn’t quite correct I think, you can see the new UI she refers to in this example.

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

Review sought for OpenStack Personas Document

Over on the OpenStack-Operators list Piet Kruithof seeks a few minutes of folks time to review the latest iteration of the OpenStack Personas Document.

Upcoming OpenStack Events

Midcycle

Don’t forget the OpenStack Foundation’s Events Page for a list of general events 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

Random things I read this week;

  • Sigrok – some nice FOSS tools for electronic test equipment
  • Konig Bass Works – some lovely bass guitars made by a friend of mine

This edition of Lwood brought to you by Weather Report (Heavy Weather), Uriah Heep (Equator) and various other tunes.

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Lwood-20160703

July 4, 2016 at 20:56 · Filed under Lwood, OpenStack

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 27 June to 3 July 2016 for openstack-dev:

  • ~523 Messages (up about 9% relative to last week)
  • ~171 Unique threads (up about 11% relative to last week)

Bit busier this week, will likely fall off a bit next week though due to various holidays in North America I suspect… :)

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

Proposal for an Architecture Working Group – Review now in Gerrit

After further constructive discussion Clint Byrum’s well reasoned proposal for the creation of an Architecture Working Group from a few weeks back progressed to a review as mentioned in this email .

Midcycle Summaries

No new Summaries this week that I could find, but Ruby Loo sought further feedback about the Ironic midcycle (expertly summarised by Mathieu Mitchell here) that they might improve the experience all round.

TripleO Deep Dives

James Slagle proposes running a weekly hour long session to dig into topics related to TripleO.  He proposes using a high bandwidth medium (Google Hangouts for example) to run these sessions.

A very favourable response, looks like the sessions will be 1400 UTC on Thursdays, more info in the original post or the etherpad.  Could be a good model for any number of projects I suspect!

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

GUTS – a tool for migrating assets between OpenStack deployments

Michael Strang posted a question about data migration from Juno to Mitaka in reply to which Roland Chan pointed out the good work being done on GUTS – “A Workload migration engine designed to automatically move existing workloads and virtual machines from various virtualisation platforms to OpenStack” Looks rather neat!

Upcoming OpenStack Events

Midcycle

Don’t forget the OpenStack Foundation’s Events Page for a list of general events 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

Random things I read this week;

  • Like last week, it was a bit of a frantic one this week past so not much to report alas

This edition of Lwood brought to you by the happy sounds of family pottering about our home.

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