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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Lwood-20170129

January 30, 2017 at 23:59 · 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 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

January 23, 2017 at 17:25 · 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 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

January 16, 2017 at 16:27 · 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 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

January 9, 2017 at 19:07 · 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 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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Lwood-20161218

December 19, 2016 at 22:19 · 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 12 to 18 December for openstack-dev:

  • ~413 Messages (up about 36% relative to last week)
  • ~134 Unique threads (up about 30% percent relative to last week)

Traffic levels bounced back up again, but the overall trend is towards quieter – it’s been suggested a graph might be a nice thing to do and will look into doing just such a thing.

This is the final Lwood for 2016 – I won’t be putting one together on 26 December 26 or 2 January.  Normal service will resume on 9 January.  I take this opportunity then to wish you and yours the very best for the upcoming festive season however and wherever you might celebrate it, and wish you all the best for 2017 – Hugh :)

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

Lwood Feedback Survey

My thanks to those readers who have already provided feedback through the survey I mentioned in last week’s Lwood.  If you haven’t already done so and would like to, I’d welcome your thoughts.

Thus far 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.

Pike Community Goals work continues

Emilien Macchi continues the thread he started late November with a bit of an update on how the feedback gathering has been going – in short quite well. The details are in the etherpad here – a wide range of goals have been defined – code cleanups, more complete testing of IPv6 and Rolling Upgrade just a sample.

The thread continued with a little discussion and explanation about process, but the bulk of it is what ended up in etherpad.  Worth a read if you’re curious about OpenStack wide endeavours.

Many a cancelled team meeting

A general reminder that many project teams and working groups have cancelled their regularly occurring meetings over the coming few weeks as folk head off on holiday.  At a quick glance this included Nova, Requirements, Zaqar, Designate, Sahara, Searchlight and Glance – suggest double check yours to save that unnecessary early morning or late night :)

End of Week Wrap-ups

Just the two from Ruby Loo and Richard Jones for Ironic and Horizon respectively.

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

CfP Opens for OpenStack Summit Boston May 2017

An announcement that hit a bunch of lists but not, as far as I could see, openstack-dev was for the opening of Call for Presentations at the OpenStack Summit in Boston next year.  Erin Disney’s email has all the details for the event that will run May 8-11 in one of the nicest cities in the US :)

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

For no particular reason, no tunes for this week’s Lwood either :)

Although I say so in the opening remarks, I again wish all the very best for the upcoming holiday period and year to follow :)

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

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Lwood-20161211

December 12, 2016 at 21:13 · 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 5 to 11 December for openstack-dev:

  • ~304 Messages (down about 25% relative to last week)
  • ~103 Unique threads (down about 14% percent relative to last week)

As the calendar year draws to a close, things are getting quieter on OpenStack Dev. Before you sign off for the year, please consider completing the survey I’ve put together about Lwood – more details below. My thanks to folk who have already done so :)

A heads up that this is the second to last Lwood for 2016 – I won’t be putting one together on 26 December or 2 January.  Normal service will resume on 9 January :)

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

Lwood Feedback Survey

I’m pleased that Lwood still generates positive commentary from across the OpenStack Community, but figure as the year draws to a close, it’s a good time to gather some feedback.

So I’ve put together a survey.  It will probably take no more than five minutes to complete and I would be very grateful if you’d take some time to fill it out.  Thank you in anticipation :)

DefCore Committee now called Interop Working Group

Egle Sigler noted that acting on an initial request from the Board of Directors earlier in the year, the DefCore group has changed it’s name to better reflect its current mission.  Egle’s email has more details but in short the name change has been underway for some months and has now reached the point where the transition is complete.

Ocata Bugsmash in Shenzen a Great Success

Sean McGinnis gave an enthusiastic summary of a very successful sounding event in Shenzen, China – the Ocata Bugsmash.  Huawei and Intel were among the supporters of what sounds like productive week.  Sean goes on to encourage the event to become a multi location happening for each cycle, not a bad idea I’d reckon!

OpenStack Summit Barcelona summary of summaries

A somewhat late but important one from Jeremy Stanley covering the Infra sessions which will be of interest to all who make use of OpenStack infrastructure. Remainder of the summaries are listed here.

End of Week Wrap-ups

Just the two from Ruby Loo and Richard Jones for Ironic and Horizon respectively.

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

Shamail Tahir announced that the Active User Contributor (AUC) Working Group is being disbanded.  While it might at first glance seem a little odd to celebrate the end of a Working Group, quite the contrary – the point of the WG was to accomplish a particular OpenStack wide task and then close down in an orderly fashion.  Job done and a credit to all involved.

People and Projects

Core nominations & changes

None this week that I could see.

Miscellanea

Further reading

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

Credits

For no particular reason, no tunes for the week’s Lwood :)

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

 

 

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Lwood-20161204

December 5, 2016 at 17:46 · 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 28 November to 4 December for openstack-dev:

  • ~407 Messages (up about 11% relative to last week)
  • ~120 Unique threads (down about 4% percent relative to last week)

While the Message count was up this was mostly due to a couple of threads running quite long, the Thread count itself more or less within the normal week to week variance.  All considered a fairly quiet week on the list, but some good discussions as you’ll see…

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

The Future of OpenStack Needs You

Is the email subject Ildikó Vancsa used in a timely rallying cry seeking folk to get involved in the various mentoring and training efforts that are undertaken prior to the Summits.  She notes that the training at tje Barcelona Summit was very successful (90+ attendees) and that there’s a desire to have more people get involved in this very worthwhile endeavour.

Baseball Win Results in Cirros Image Password Change

Ihar Hrachyshka notes that the recent win by the Chicago Cubs in US World Series Baseball finals has resulted in a change to the default password for the popular Cirros images.  It was ‘cubswin:)’ but is now ‘gocubsgo’

As Scott Moser points out in a reply to the thread, it wasn’t a “just because” change – amongst other things the ‘:)’ characters were hard or impossible to type from some devices/consoles – hence reverting to alphabet only but retaining the spirit of the original :)

Community wide Goals for Pike

Emilien Macchi wrote a short update about the endeavour to accomplish OpenStack Wide goals each release, for Ocata it was “Remove copies of Incubated Oslo Code” – the process is now starting to arrive at similar goal(s) for Pike.  He puts forward three actions that can be taken now towards this: (paraphrased) – soliciting feedback for the first iteration of this process, looking at the goals backlog and choosing some goals for Pike.

Emilien closes in thanking folk for their participation and inviting feedback.

OpenStack-Ansible Deployment Guide goes live

Alexandra Settle announced the OpenStack-Ansible Deployment Guide is now available on the docs.openstack.org website.

While a very useful piece of work in it’s own right, it has an additional positive effect of paving the way for many other deployment projects to publish their deployment guides.

Allowing Teams based on Vendor Specific Drivers

Doug Hellman kicked off one of the longer and more involved (but all but entirely constructive) threads of the week past.  In it he seeks to open the conversation about how best to be inclusive for teams/projects that are specific to vendor hardware without compromising the broader OpenStack goals of openness and inclusiveness.

In essence the issue is that a project that is solely dedicated to providing drivers for a (say) FooBar Electronics™ network adaptor will likely largely involve staff attached to FooBar Electronics (FBE) the company.  This can lead to a bit of a mono-culture or, if FBE act poorly, mean they can make it hard/impossible for outsiders to contribute.  On the other hand, FBE (rightly, I think) want it to be clear that they are contributing positively to OpenStack and that their hardware is considered legitimately supported by OpenStack.

I think the wrinkle, by and large becomes the right balance between wording/rules on the one hand and trust of organisations to do the right thing on the other.  The Linux Kernel community has managed this pretty well over the years and there were a couple of posts that alludes to that fact and there are some lessons that might be drawn on.

It’s an interesting thread to read and an important one – OpenStack has an unusually high reliance on “Enterprise” grade hardware and unusually high expectations on it working solidly.  And that hardware of course isn’t just servers, it’s network switches and other broader infrastructure.

OpenStack Summit Barcelona summary of summaries

A final reminder that there’s a summary of summaries from the summit in Barcelona here.

End of Week Wrap-ups

To their credit, Ruby Loo and Richard Jones have been keeping the cadence of these weekly summaries going – just the thing if you want a nicely detailed, single point update on Ironic and Horizon respectively.

Upcoming Survey: The Future of Lwood

Please keep an eye out – as 2016 draws to a close I’m contemplating the future of Lwood – the feedback I get is consistently positive (thanks!) but it’s harder to get a feel for the overall reach/readership. To that end I’ll be doing a little survey in the coming couple of weeks and would welcome your feedback please when the time comes – a link will be in the next few Lwoods.

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

If you’re an operator, please consider participating in the Deployment/Installation survey that Piet Kruithof mentions on the OpenStack-Operators list as they need a few more respondents.  Other than that things were pretty quiet, at least from an Lwood standpoint on the various other OpenStack lists.

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 edition of Lwood brought to you by AC/DC (Side 2 of Back in Black), Marillion (Misplaced Childhood, Clutching At Straws) and Glenn Hughes (Resonate which I loved on first listen and it’s continuing to impress every sitting).

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

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