Archive for September, 2016

Lwood-20160925

September 26, 2016 at 17:57 · 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 19 to 25 September for openstack-dev:

  • ~547 Messages (up bit over 9.5% relative to last week)
  • ~170 Unique threads (down about 21% relative to last week)

Yet another pretty typical week on the list :)

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

Architecture Working Group Process

Dean Troyer gives a concise update on where things are up to with the Architecture WG – this important initiative looks to be making good progress

Removing OpenStackSalt and Security project teams from the Big Tent ?

Thierry Carrez started what proved to be a longish thread this week with an email noting that as there were no PTL candidates within the election deadline for a number of official project teams – Astara, UX, OpenStackSalt and Security.

Turns out that the Astara project team wish to abandon the project anyway and the current PTL (Piet) quickly reacted to explain his error and confirm his willingness to continue in the role.

The thread then dealt a bit more specifically with OpenStackSalt – a newer project that seeming had some misunderstandings about the process and Security which has of course been around much longer.

The conclusion by the end of the thread looks to be that both Security and OpenStackSalt will stay within the tent after some satisfactory email and IRC discussions.  Rob Clark’s blog post regarding the situation for the Security project is worth a read too.

Community Contributor Awards nominations open

Kendall Nelson notes that nominations are open for the Community Contributor Awards and will remain so until October 7.

As Kendall puts it: “There are so many people out there who do invaluable work that should be recognized. People that hold the community together, people that make working on OpenStack fun, people that do a lot but aren’t called out for their work, people that speak their mind and aren’t afraid to challenge the norm.”  He continues “Like last time, we won’t have a defined set of awards so we take extra note of what you say about the nominee in your submission to pick the winners.”

Please give some thought to nominating your favour person or their endeavour for the awards, it’s an easy process and a nice way to give recognition to fellow community members.

PTL Election Concludes, TC Positions Open

Tony Breeds noted that the PTL Election has concluded and the results are detailed in his email.

Next up, as pointed out by Tristan Cacqueray in his email are TC elections with Candidate nominations open now through to 1 October 23:45 UTC.

How do -you- handle the openstack-dev Mailing List

Is the question posed by Josh Harlow in his email to the list from late last week – he’s heard it a few times over the years (I dare say many people have) – and is keen for people to share their own work practices.

If you’re reading this -and- contribute to/read the ML please chuck your thoughts in the etherpad :)

Operators Meetup Feedback

So far just the one from Sean Dague as the ops-summit related to Nova, but worth a read and hopefully will inspire more to come :)

More Beautiful Music in Barcelona

Last week’s Lwood made mention of Amrith Kumar’s post seeking instrument wielding musicians – this in turn prompted Neil Jerram to note that there’s a singing group together too :)

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

Nothing that leapt out from the other lists this week.

People and Projects

Core nominations & changes

  • [Searchlight] Matt Borland Core Nomination – Travis Tripp
  • [QA] resigning from Tempest core – Marc Koderer
  • [QA] tempest-cores update – Ken Ohmichi

Further Reading & Miscellanea

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

This weeks edition of Lwood brought to you by Pink Floyd (A Momentary Lapse of Reason), Bruce Hornsby (Hot House, Levitate) and Bruce Springsteen (High Hopes)

Last but by no means least, thanks, as always, to Rackspace :)

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Lwood-20160918

September 19, 2016 at 23:02 · 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 12 to 18 September for openstack-dev:

  • ~499 Messages (down about 10% relative to last week)
  • ~216 Unique threads (up about 35% relative to last week)

Another pretty typical week on the list message count down a bit from last week but the thread count up as there weren’t any particularly long threads to jiggle the metrics (a single message is counted as a thread).

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

New OpenStack Security Notices

MongoDB guest instance allows any user to connect [OSSN-0066]

From the summary “When creating a new MongoDB single instance or cluster the default setting in MongoDB `security.authorization` was set as disabled. This resulted in no need to provide user credentials to connect to the mongo instance and perform read / write operations from any network that is attached on instance create.”  The original email or the SSN itself has more information.

Deleted Glance image IDs may be reassigned [OSSN-0075]

From the summary (paraphrase and so errors mine) “It is possible for image IDs from deleted images to be reassigned to other images.  This creates the possibility that by creating a nefarious image that shares the ID with a previously deleted but trusted image, the nefarious image can be booted without the user realising it was quietly changed.”  The original post and/or the SSN has more information.

Writing down OpenStack Principles – thread continues and a great quote

The thread that started last week with this a post from Chris Dent trundled along a bit more this week with a few more messages.  Most of the substantive commentary seems to have moved to the review that Thierry Carrez created, the last message in the thread being that Thierry has now posted a revised version which seeks to incorporate the various bits of feedback.

A brief side discussion on the thread popped up between Clay Gerrard and Thierry where they both acknowledged somewhat different views but also an appreciation for the others willingness to embrace new information and change their outlook as appropriate.  Collaborative Open Source development at its best there I reckon.

I’ll close this item with a quote from Thierry’s email which is, I think, one of the most eloquent summaries of the relationship between governance and code in an Open Source project I’ve read.

“It is important for open source projects to have a strong governance model, but it is only the frame that holds the canvas and defines the space. The important part is the painting.”

Nicely put :)

 

Stewardship Working Group (SWG) meeting report

The SWG was mentioned in Lwood-20160717 – as Amrith Kumar noted in the post in question, the group was set up by the Technical Commitee (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.”

During the week past Colette Alexander posted with an update on recent activities.  Of note is that there is work under way to refine the vision for what the SWG will accomplish in Barcelona and feedback is sought from the community.

Election Season Continues

This week marked the end of the PTL nomination period as Tristan Cacqueray notes here – there were four projects (Astara, OpenStack Salt, OpenStack UX and Security) that were without candidates and so the TC will appoint the PTL.  Six projects had more than one PTL nominate and so will have an election: Freezer, Ironic, Keystone, Kolla, Magnum and Quality Assurance. There’s a full list of candidates below or on the official site here.

At the time of writing the election itself has just kicked off and will run until 23:45 September 25, 2016 (UTC)  If you’re eligible, please vote! :)

End of Cycle Retrospectives / Postmortems

As Newton draws to an end, projects are starting to do retrospectives.  Three I spotted were for Keystone (Steve Martinelli) Neutron (Armando Migliaccio) and Nova (Matt Riedemann) with more likely over the next few weeks.  These are all works in progress so if you’ve something constructive to contribute please do!

Beautiful Music in Barcelona

While the gathering proposed may not quite reach the vocal, choral and orchestral grandeur of this if you’re a musician and will be at the Barcelona Summit, please read Amrith Kumar’s post here.

Amrith asks “would y’all musicians who plan to bring your gear to Barcelona please start a little thread here on the ML and let’s get a band going?”.  While I won’t alas be in Barcelona I’ve had the good fortune to be involved in these sorts of FOSS meets music gatherings in the past back in the Canonical days – it’s a ton of fun and I commend it to you :)

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

Nothing that leapt out from the other lists this week.

Upcoming OpenStack Events

Best I can tell no OpenStack related events mentioned this week.  Don’t forget the OpenStack Foundation’s Events Page for a list of general events that is frequently updated.

People and Projects

PTL’s stepping down

PTL Candidates

Core nominations & changes

Further Reading & Miscellanea

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

This weeks edition of Lwood brought to you by the background noise of Brunswick, Victoria.  Not as tuneful as Weather Report last week, but a pleasant hum and bustle none the less :)  Oh and a quick reprise of Barcelona featuring Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé.

Last but by no means least, thanks, as always, to Rackspace :)

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Lwood-20160911

September 12, 2016 at 22:12 · 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 5 to 11 September for openstack-dev:

  • ~556 Messages (up about 13% relative to last week)
  • ~160 Unique threads (down about 11% relative to last week)

A pretty typical week on the list, two new and quite long threads (~28 and ~60 messages each) contributing significantly to the Messages up/Threads down result.  A nice moment of levity in the middle of the 60 message thread too…

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

New OpenStack Security Notices

Host machine exposed to tenant networks via IPv6 [OSSN-0069]

From the summary “New interfaces created by Neutron in the default namespace, were done so without disabling IPv6 link-local addresses. This resulted in instances gaining the ability to directly access the host OS, therefore breaking guest isolation.” More in the original post or SSN itself.

Horizon dashboard leaks internal information through cookies [OSSN-0073]

From the summary (slightly paraphrased) “When horizon is configured, its URL contains the IP address of the internal URL of keystone, as the default value for the identity service is “internalURL”.  This has the effect of exposing the internal IP address to the outside world”. The original post or the SSN has more informatio.

The first Project Teams Gathering (PTG)

Thierry Carrez’s email gives a handy summary of the upcoming Project Teams Gathering (PTG) meeting in Atlanta on February 20-24 next year.

The PTG meetings are in essence the “Design Summit” part of the OpenStack Summit separated off into a standalone event.  There will continue to be a link to the Summit attendees through a “Forum” for community wide discussions.

There is more detail on the what’s changed and the rationale on the Foundation website here as well as a FAQ.  It’s worth a bit of a read as this is one of the more fundamental changes to the way OpenStack development is undertaken for some time.

Ocata Schedule Approved

Doug Hellmann notes that the schedule for Ocata has been approved.  There’s more information in a nice table here or in the original review – release week is February 20, 2017.

Writing down OpenStack Principles

One of the longer threads this week and ongoing at the time of writing was one that Chris Dent kicked off.  In his initial post he draws attention to a review that Thierry Carrez created in concert with other TC members to try and translate some of the “assumed knowledge” that the TC has accumulated over the years into a written form.

The thread has been a little contentious in places (about 5 out of 10 on my newly created lwood-fuss-o-meter) but based on my read that is more about the approach taken than any fundamental disagreement about the end result.  You can view the document in its current form here – it’s worth a quick read.

Future election timing and “Release Stewards”

The longest thread of the week, the conversation kicked off by Thierry Carrez in this post flags some side effects of the change in Summit/PTG arrangements and the timing of release cycles.  As currently defined the timing of elections is reference to the Summit – this would have the effect of meaning PTL and TC positions being renewed mid-cycle.  At first blush this seems a bit suboptimal but Thierry makes the point that it might not necessarily be so.

He goes on to make the case for the creation of a new role – a “Release Steward” who would oversee the complete release “from requirements gathering to post-release-bugfix-backport phase”  This would in practice last longer than the release cycle of six months as many aspects of the release precede and follow the cycle proper.

Thierry suggests that the PTL could elect to be Release Steward as well, or (more likely) someone else in the team.  Having someone doing this important work would free the PTL to continue with strategic pieces knowing the minutiae of the release was in good hands.

The thread goes on to tweak and debate the idea, an alternative first suggested by Sean Dague but with some virtual nods from others along the lines of “yes I was wondering about that”, would instead run the PTL elections early and have the “PTL-next” doing the pre-work for the next release while the PTL took care of landing the current release.

At the time of writing the discussion is continuing – it’s a pretty accessible thread if you want to dig in, if not I’ll endeavour to summarise the eventual outcome when the dust settles :)

Oh and the funny little exchange starting here is worth a few clicks to read as it unfolds :)

Election Season Continues

Following on from his post last week, Tristan Cacqueray advised that nominations are now open for OpenStack PTLs.  Nominations remain open until September 18, 23:45 UTC.  The elections begin 15 minutes later at 00:00 September 19, 2016 (UTC) and run until 23:45 September 25, 2016 (UTC)  If you’re curious the candidates will be listed here as they’re approved.

Subteam and Mid-Cycle Reports

None this week.

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

Nothing that leapt out from the other lists this week.

Upcoming OpenStack Events

Best I can tell no OpenStack related events mentioned this week.  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

New, Proposed and Changed OpenStack Projects

Joe Huang noted that the Tricircle project has voted to on the name Trio2o for their api-gateway efforts.

Further Reading & Miscellanea

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

This weeks edition of Lwood brought to you by Weather Report (Forecast Tomorrow) and Marillion (Holidays in Eden)

Last but by no means least, thanks, as always, to Rackspace :)

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Lwood-20160904

September 5, 2016 at 22:01 · 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 29 August to 4 September for openstack-dev:

  • ~491 Messages (up about 35% relative to last week)
  • ~181 Unique threads (up adbout 12% relative to last week)

After a quiet couple of weeks list traffic was back in force, traffic starting to build ahead of the next release and summit.  Emails about Summit room/space assignment and end of release Feature Freeze Request exceptions contributed as did a couple of longer technically oriented threads.

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

Election Season

Tristan Cacqueray reminded the list that September and October are the period over which OTL and TC elections are held.  More details to follow of course, in the meantime he invited questions back to the thread if more general/public in nature or to Tony Breeds, Nate Johnston or himself if more private in nature.

OpenStack Summit App Beta testers sought

Jimmy McArthur from the OpenStack Foundation put out a call for people to beta test the app for the upcoming summit. They’re after both iOS and Android users.

An update on the InfraCloud

Ricardo Carrillo Cruz posted an update on the status of the InfraCloud – as he neatly describes it “…essentially a bunch of hardware donated by HPE to the project to run an OpenStack cloud for CI testing…”  More information in Ricardo’s post or here.

Subteam and Mid-Cycle Reports

Just the one this week for Ironic, courtesy of Ruby Loo.

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

Call for participants in Horizon/Searchlight UX study

On the Openstack-Operators list Danielle Mundle announced that the next UX project is a usability evaluation for an proposed search function in Horizon (aka Searchlight).  Please consider getting involved if you’d make use of such functionaliy.

Upcoming OpenStack Events

Best I can tell no OpenStack related events mentioned this week.  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

  • [Keystone] New core reviewer Ron De Rose (rderose) – Steve Martinelli
  • [Packaging-rpm] Javier Peña as additonal core reviewer – Dirk Müller

Further Reading & Miscellanea

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

This weeks edition of Lwood brought to you by Billy Joel (Piano Man: The Very Best of Billy Joel), Boston (Boston), Catfish (Unlimited Address), Daft Punk (Random Access Memories), Dire Straits (Love over Gold, Making Movies)

Last but by no means least, thanks, as always, to Rackspace :)

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