Archive for February, 2017

Lwood-20170226

February 27, 2017 at 22:46 · 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 the week 20 to 26 February for openstack-dev:

~346 Messages (down nearly 40% relative to the long term average)

~146 Unique threads (down a bit over 18% relative to the long term average)

Historically traffic drops around the time of a Summit, not unexpectedly it seems it’s same around the PTGs.  A correspondingly brief Lwood too :)

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

OpenStack PTG Atlanta summary of summaries

With Atlanta PTG wrapping up last week the summaries are starting to come in – as I’ve done previously I’ll link them over the next few Lwoods then put together a combined list early next month. Just five our this week, next week I suspect there’ll be rather more… :)

End of Week Wrap-ups, Summaries and Updates

Pretty much supplanted by the PTG wraps this week, listed above.

People and Projects

Core nominations & changes

Miscellanea

Further reading

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

Credits

This weeks edition of Lwood brought to you by a large music collection on random track play, so had Eric Clapton, Queensrÿche, David Francey, Elvis Costello, Weather Report, Coldplay, Miles Davis, Bruce Hornsby, Rush and Sásta amongst others.

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Lwood-20170219

February 20, 2017 at 18:30 · 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 the week 13 to 19 February for openstack-dev:

~575 Messages (three messages more than the long term average)

~212 Unique threads (up about 18% relative to the long term average)

Traffic picked up a fair bit this week – almost exactly on the long term average for messages.  Threads up a bit more – lots of short threads, a mixture of those about project logos and PTG logistics contributing there I think.

 

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

Proposed Pike release schedule

Thierry Carrez posted to the list with some information on the proposed Pike release schedule.  The human friendly version is here.  Week zero – release week – is the week of August 28

Assistance sought for the Outreachy program

From Mahati Chamarthy an update about the Outreachy program – an initiative that helps folk from underrepresented groups get involved in FOSS. It’s a worthy initiative if there were ever one, a lot of support was shown from it at linux.conf.au recently as it happens too.

Please consider getting involved and/or supporting the programs work financially.

Session voting open for OpenStack Summit Boston

Erin Disney writes to advise that voting is open for sessions in Boston until 7:59am Wednesday 22nd February (UTC)  She notes that unique URLs for submissions have been returned based on community feedback.

Final Team Mascots

A slew of messages this week announcing the final versions of the team mascots that the OpenStack Foundation has been coordinating.  I briefly contemplated listing them all here but that seemed a sub-optimal way to spend the next hour – so if you want to find one for your favourite project, follow this link and use your browser search for “mascot” or “logo” – mostly the former. The Foundation will, I gather, be publishing a canonical list of them all shortly in any case.

In a thread about licensing for the images kicked off by Graham Hayes was the clarification that they’ll be CC-BY-ND

End of Week Wrap-ups, Summaries and Updates

People and Projects

Project Team Lead Election Conclusion and Results

Kendall Nelson summarises the results of the recent PTL elections in a post to the list.  Most Projects had the one PTL nominee, those that went to election were Ironic, Keystone, Neutron, QA and Stable Branch Maintenance.  Full details in Kendall’s message.

Core nominations & changes

Miscellanea

Further reading

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

Credits

This weeks edition of Lwood brought to you by Daft Punk (Random Access Memories) and DeeExpus (King of Number 33)

 

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Lwood-20170212

February 13, 2017 at 19:16 · 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 the week 6 to 12 February for openstack-dev:

~348 Messages (down about 39% relative to the long term average)

~124 Unique threads (down about 31% relative to the long term average)

One of those weeks where I wonder if should ever speculate what is going to happen with traffic on the list!  Much quieter this week relative to average – there does seem to be a trend where traffic falls away a bit around a PTG or Summit so perhaps just a side effect of the proximity to next weeks PTG in Boston.  Bit of a shorter Lwood as a result

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

New OpenStack Security Notices

Users of Glance may be able to replace active image data [OSSN-0065]

From the summary: “When Glance has been configured with the “show_multiple_locations” option enabled with default policy for set and delete locations, it is possible for a non-admin user having write access to the image metadata to replace active image data.”

What is your favourite/most embarrassing IRC gaffe ?

So asks Kendall Nelson in his email – he’s gathering stories from the community as part of an article he’s writing. In fairness I won’t risk inadvertently stealing his thunder by repeating or summarising the stories here but if you want something to brighten your morning/afternoon, have a quick peek at the thread :)

End of Week Wrap-ups, Summaries and Updates

People and Projects

Project Team Lead Election Conclusion and Results

Kendall Nelson summarises the results of the recent PTL elections in a post to the list.  Most Projects had the one PTL nominee, those that went to election were Ironic, Keyston, Neutron, QA and Stable Branch Maintenance.  Full details in Kendall’s message.

Core nominations & changes

A quiet week this week other than the PTL elections winding up

  • [Dragonflow] Nominating Xiao Hong Hui for core of Dragonflow – Omer Anson

Miscellanea

Further reading

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

Credits

This weeks edition of Lwood brought to you by Bruce Hornsby (Scenes from the Southside) and Bruce Springsteen (Greatest Hits).

In this my first Lwood post Rackspace I place on record my thanks to the Rack for a great few years and, of course, for supporting producing Lwood as part of my role there. I intend continuing to write Lwood for the foreseeable future modulo what my new (yet to be determined) gig might entail :)

 

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Lwood-20170205

February 6, 2017 at 21:38 · 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 the week 30 January to 5 February for openstack-dev:

  • ~474 Messages (down about 17% relative to the long term average)
  • ~163 Unique threads (down about 9% relative to the long term average)

A little little quieter than last week but overall back into “normal” territory for list traffic volume.  That said, not a lot of traffic that met the Lwood criteria this week – one of (from memory) only two or three weeks where this has occurred.  Was it something I said ? :)

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

Survey on Open Source Collaboration practices

A reminder that 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.  This was flagged last week, but if you haven’t already and you can spare a few minutes to answer the brief (ten question) survey it would be much appreciated. THe Survey is here.

End of Week Wrap-ups

A few more projects starting to produce “regular” weekly updates and/or meeting summaries.  This week we have ones for Horizon from Richard Jones, Ironic courtesy of Ruby Loo, TripleO CI from Attila Darazs and Triple O Containers from Flavio Percoco.

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

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

People and Projects

PTL nominations & Changes

As Kendall Nelson points out in his email elections are underway and will end on February 7 2017 at 23:45 UTC.  Ironic, Keystone, Neutron, Quality Assurance and Stable Branch Maintenance are the five projects that have multiple candidates and so go to the vote.

If you do wish to review the Candidacy Statements, they are listed on the OpenStack Governance page.  If you’re eligible to vote you should have already received an email from the Condorcet system to allow you to do so.

Core nominations & changes

Miscellanea

Further reading

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

Credits

Finally got speakers set up (bliss) and so very much enjoyed listening to The Lachy Doley Group’s new album, Lovelight while preparing Lwood this week.

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

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