Lwood-20161127
Introduction
Welcome to Last week on OpenStack Dev (“Lwoodâ€) for the week just past. For more background on Lwood, please refer here.
Basic Stats for the week 21 to 27 November for openstack-dev:
- ~367 Messages (down about 16% relative to last week)
- ~125 Unique threads (down about 24% percent relative to last week)
Not surprisingly Message and Thread countsdropped back down again last week as many in the OpenStack community observed the Thanksgiving Holidays in the US. In a spare moment I goofed about a bit and looked at the overall trends since July 2015 when I started Lwood and the overall trend for Messages is quite noticeably down. The trend for Threads is down too but not as markedly – I conject that the overall variety/level of discourse is staying fairly constant, but the average thread is getting shorter – a sign perhaps of consensus being reached more rapidly and/or more involved discussions shifting to commentary in blueprints, reviews etc.
Notable Discussions – openstack-dev
What exactly is the Steward Working Group anyhow ?
Is the quasi-rhetorical question posed by Colette Alexander in her email. In her post you’ll find a very succinct explanation of the SWG activities – I dare say of interest to all involved in OpenStack and worth a read.
Liberty released tagged End of Life
Tony Breeds notes that in keeping with usual OpenStack process, the Liberty release is now tagged EoL – if you’re still using it, now might be a good to time to plan not to :)
OpenStack Summit Barcelona summary of summaries
Just a reminder that there’s a summary of summaries from the summit in Barcelona here.
Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists
Things were pretty quiet, at least from an Lwood standpoint on the various other OpenStack lists.
People and Projects
Core nominations & changes
- [Horizon] Zhenguo Niu retiring from Horizon Core Team – Richard Jones
- [Keystone] Stepping down from keystone core – Marek Denis
- [Keystone] Not running for PTL for Pike cycle – Steve Martinelli
- [Nova] Stepping back – Andrew Laski
- [TripleO] Proposing Julie Pichon for tripleo core – Dougal Matthews
Miscellanea
Further reading
Don’t forget these excellent sources of OpenStack news – most recent ones linked in each case
- What’s Up, Doc? by Lana Brindley
- What’s Happening in OpenStack Ansible (WHOA) by Major Hayden
- API Working Group newsletter – Chris Dent and the API WG
- OpenStack Developer Mailing List Digest by Mike Perez
- OpenStack news over on opensource.com by Jason Baker
- OpenStack Foundation Events Page for a frequently updated list of events
Credits
This edition of Lwood brought to you by Mr. Mister (Welcome to the Real World), Glenn Hughes (Resonate) and a couple of other tunes. On the off chance you like rock/heavy rock, please do yourself a favour and check out Resonate – it’s goosebumps inducing good – best thing I’ve heard all year and I fully expect will end up in my long term top ten album list – it’s excellent.
Last but by no means least, thanks, as always, to Rackspace :)