Archive for January, 2017

Lwood-20170129

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 the week 23 to 29 January for openstack-dev:

  • ~516 Messages (down just shy of 10% relative to the long term average)
  • ~175 Unique threads (down about 2% relative to the long term average)

List traffic pretty much back to the long term normal!

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

Supporting our Global Community

Jonathan Bryce, writing on on behalf of Lauren Sell, Mark Collier and himself note their disagreement with the executive order issued by the President of the USA restricting travel to the US for some nationals.

A disagreement I believe is shared by many if not all in the OpenStack Foundation, OpenStack Community and certainly by your humble correspondent…

Survey on Open Source Collaboration practices

Allison Randal is running a brief survey on collaboration practices in Open Source development, particularly within corporations and OpenStack as part of academic research she’s undertaking.  If you can spare a few minutes to answer the brief (ten question) survey it would be much appreciated.  Survey is here.

Update on OpenStack PTLs (Program Team Leads) election

Somewhere around a quarter of list traffic this week past was PTL related being as it was the final week of nominations before the election proper commenced.

Kendall Nelson confirmed the end of the nomination period and noted there was only one project without a candidate – OpenStack UX.  There were five projects (Ironic, Keystone, Neutron, Quality Assurance and Stable Branch Maintenance) that had more than one candidate and so these will go to an election.

As an aside there was some discussion on the list that the important work of the UX Project would be better done through a working group – will update on this thread as it progresses in the coming week.

For further reading, here are the official candidacy statements.  Just the one not re-standing messages in the People and Projects section below from Richard Jones (retiring Horizon PTL)

One Hundred and Eleven Thousand, One Hundred and Eleven openstack-dev messages and counting

A bit of trivia: I happened to notice while preparing Lwood that the list archive had ticked over 111,111 messages.  The lucky (!) message was from Travis Truman giving a +1 on the nomination of Amy Marrich to openstack-ansible core by Alexandra Settle the newly elected Docs PTL.

End of Week Wrap-ups

Just the one this week from Ruby Loo for Ironic.

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

No traffic particularly stood out on the other lists this last week.

People and Projects

Working Group Changes

Carol Barrett notes that she is retiring from Intel and so stepping down from her roles in the Product Working Group and the Enterprise Working Group.

I have had the good fortune to work with Carol as part of my own modest contributions to the PWG and happily add my best wishes to her here in this forum to those she’s rightly received from many on the list itself.  Good luck Carol!

PTL nominations & Changes

With PTL elections coming up as noted above, a non-candidacy messages and bunch candidacy statements this week.

Unlike previous elections I won’t list candidates individually here as it was both time consuming and prone to errors, but will list the folk not-standing for re-election as it’s nice to see their efforts recognised.  If you do wish to review the Candidacy Statements, they are listed on the OpenStack Governance page as they are approved by the election officials.

Thanks to those stepping down…

Core nominations & changes

Miscellanea

Further reading

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

Credits

No tunes, no speakers yet, still surrounded by boxes…

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

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Lwood-20170122

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 the week 16 to 22 January for openstack-dev:

  • ~485 Messages (down about 15% relative to the long term average)
  • ~164 Unique threads (down about 8% relative to the long term average)

List traffic well and truly rebounding now – last time we had message counts in the high 400’s was mid/late October last year and we’re getting within cooee of the long term average again.  This in part I suspect because I opined to someone at linux.conf.au last week that maybe the list traffic was slowing for good ;)

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

Refreshing and revalidating API compatibility guidelines

From Chris Dent on behalf of the API Working Group, an email noting that the API-WG are in the process of (as the subject suggests!) revalidating and refreshing the API compatibility guidelines.

As Chris rightly points out, API Compatibility is an important part of the overall API piece of OpenStack – the API in turn being what our users see and interact with daily as they develop their applications that use OpenStack.
This then an important initiative as they are not only ensuring the current documentation makes sense, is consistent etc. but also that common language is used around the definitions of APIs themselves.  Feedback from the broader user community is welcomed for both.

If you do any OpenStack development, please read this thread and engage if it piques your interest.

Nominations for OpenStack PTLs (Program Team Leads) are now open

Kendall Nelson announced that nominations for OpenStack PTLs are now open and will remain so until Jan 29, 2017 23:45 UTC.

I’ve provided links to the page that lists the official candidacy statements as well as links to the not-standing messages in the People and Projects section below :)

Identifying expected “Base Services”

Thierry Carrez draws attention to a great initiative that has been kicked off by the Architecture Working Group – he sums it up succinctly and eloquently in the first couple of paras of his email and so I quote:

“In OpenStack all components can assume that a number of external services will be present and available for them to use (think: a message queue), but we never had a clear name to describe them or a clear list.”

“Work has started[0] within the Architecture working group[1] to prepare a definition for those ‘base services’, a current list and a process for growing that list.”

This is bound to be a boon for both OpenStack developers and integrators looking to run OpenStack on their OS of choice alike.

End of Week Wrap-ups

Two this week from Ruby Loo and Richard Jones for Ironic and Horizon respectively.

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

No traffic particularly stood out on the other lists this last week.

People and Projects

PTL nominations & Changes

With PTL elections coming up as noted above, a few non-candidacy messages and bunch candidacy statements this week.

Unlike previous elections I won’t list candidates individually here as it was both time consuming and prone to errors, but will list the folk not-standing for re-election as it’s nice to see their efforts recognised.  If you do wish to review the Candidacy Statements, they are listed on the OpenStack Governance page as they are approved by the election officials.

Thanks to those stepping down…

Core nominations & changes

  • [CloudKitty] Proposing Jeremy Liu as core for cloudkitty​ – Christophe Sauthier
  • [Puppet] Nominating Mykyta Karpin (mkarpin) for core – Alex Schultz
  • [Release][Stable] nominating Alan Pevec (apevec) for stable release core – Doug Hellmann

Miscellanea

Further reading

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

Credits

No tunes as recovering from an enjoyable linux.conf.au and, err, don’t have my speakers set up yet…

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

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Lwood-20170115

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 the week 9 to 15 January for openstack-dev:

  • ~382 Messages (down about 33% relative to the long term average)
  • ~145 Unique threads (down about 19% relative to the long term average)

Traffic once again quiet but trajectory is positive after the break.  A reminder that I’ve changed the reporting slightly to be against the long term average (since 22 June 2015), a pretty graph to follow one week soon, truly!

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

Improving Vendor Driver Discoverability

Mike Perez puts forward a proposal for improving the availability and accuracy of vendor specific driver information across OpenStack projects.  This has been the purview of the driverlog project which in turn, amongst other things, provides data that is used in the OpenStack Marketplace.

One of the difficulties put forward has been keeping this information current, residing as it currently does in a central json file – many projects would prefer to maintain this information within their projects – somewhat tricky to do if it’s in a common file.

Among some other suggestions for the process, Mike volunteers to create files for each project involved to bootstrap this process and then turn them over to be maintained by the project therafter.  Data in these per-project files will be aggregated together to produce the final results used by the Marketplace and elsewhere.

List of all Pike PTG Etherpads

From Thierry Carrez a quick email where he notes there is now a list of Etherpads for the various projects present at the Pike PTG.

End of Week Wrap-ups

Two this week from Ruby Loo and Richard Jones for Ironic and Horizon respectively.

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

No traffic particularly stood out on the other lists this last week.

People and Projects

PTL nominations & Changes

Core nominations & changes

  • [Kolla] Adding Jeffrey Zhang (jeffrey4l) to kolla-kubernetes-core because he is release liaison – Steve Dake
  • [Kuryr] Ocata cycle ending and proposing new people as Kuryr cores (Liping Mao and Ilya Chukhnakov) – Toni Segura Puimedon

Miscellanea

Further reading

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

Credits

Attending sessions at linux.conf.au this week so no tunes, but many a good talk :)

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

 

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Lwood-20170108

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 the week 2 to 8 January for openstack-dev:

  • ~284 Messages (down about 50% relative to the long term average)
  • ~115 Unique threads (down about 35% relative to the long term average)

Traffic quiet but heading back up after the break.  Note that I’ve changed the reporting slightly to be against the long term average (calculated since 22 June 2015). As noted previously it’s been suggested to me a graph might be a nice thing to do – scheming towards same has begun…

Welcome back and Happy New Year – this is the first Lwood for 2017, I hope yours was a pleasant break if you had one!  Mine was dominated by boxes and interstate travel, but done in excellent company making it well and truly agreeable enough :)

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

While we were out…

A few quickies from the break that seemed worth flagging even if briefly;

  • OSSN-0074 “Nova metadata service should not be used for sensitive information”, courtesy of Luke Hinds
  • An update penned by Kendall Nelson from the Storyboard team that includes an overview on the decision to move to Storyboard from Launchpad.
  • A reminder about the upcoming PTL election season coming up in January, also from Kendall Nelson
  • A piece on a prototype HW VNC console for certain Dell servers by Pavlo Shchelokovskyy
  • A report on doing live migration performance test of 100 compute nodes courtesy of Pawel Koniszewski

OpenStack Release calendar in ICS form

Doug Hellmann writes that there is now a ICS version of the Ocata release schedule available online here.

Lwood Feedback Survey

Flagging this one more time and again noting my thanks to those readers who have already provided feedback through the survey mentioned previously. If you haven’t already done so and would like to, I’d welcome your thoughts :)

The feedback has been very positive, thank you, it seems this modest effort does indeed fill a useful niche for folk in among the other sources out there so will keep at it, with a few tweaks to come.

New Projects

  • Picasso – Functions as a Service (FaaS) – Details here in the Wiki – From Derek Schultz

End of Week Wrap-ups

Just the two from the last weeks of December from Ruby Loo and Richard Jones for Ironic and Horizon respectively.

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

The Forum in More Detail

From Tom Fifield an email over on the OpenStack mailing list where he points to an article he wrote that goes into some detail about the upcoming “Forum”.  The Forums along with the PTG events are the nominal replacement of the Design Summits of old.

People and Projects

Core nominations & changes

  • [All] Proposing Steve Martinelli for project-team-guide core – Thierry Carrez
  • [Docs] Stepping down from Core – Matt Kassawara
  • [Ironic] Stepping down as PTL after this cycle – Jim Rollenhagen
  • [Kolla] Removal of Dave Wang from the kolla-kubernetes-core team – Steven Dake

Miscellanea

Further reading

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

Credits

Due in part to the absence of a fully operational home office (and in particular speakers) post move, no tunes for this week’s Lwood :)

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

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