Lwood-20161127

November 28, 2016 at 18:40 · 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 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

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 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 :)

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Lwood-20161120

November 21, 2016 at 21:48 · 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 14 to 20 November for openstack-dev:

  • ~436 Messages (up about 14% relative to last week)
  • ~164 Unique threads (up about two percent relative to last week)

Traffic levels slowly coming back up post-Barcelona.  I suspect the Thanksgiving Holidays in the US may be slowing things a little too with folk in that neck of the woods traveling towards the end of the week.

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

OpenStack Summit Barcelona summary of summaries

A handful more of summaries from the summit in Barcelona – the complete list aggregated from the last few Lwoods is here.

Oaktree – A friendly end-user oriented API layer

Monty Taylor shared some information about Oaktree – a work in progress that will provide a consistent API that works across clouds from multiple vendors.  As Monty puts it “oaktree is a gRPC-based API porcelain service for OpenStack that is based on the shade library and I’d love some help in writing it.”

Early days but looks like a pretty cool endeavour and has been well received by the openstack-dev community thus far.  Check it out :)

Tricircle now officially an OpenStack “Big Tent” project

Joe Huang wrote to say that Tricircle, a project that aims to provide networking automation for Neutron in multi-region OpenStack clouds, has officially been accepted as a big-tent project.  Congrats to all involved!

New Release Announcement list up and running

Thierry Carrez posted to advise the new mailing list for automatically generated (and hence sometimes quite noisy) release announcements.  More details in Thierry’s email or you can subscribe here.

Acknowledging Community goals for Ocata

Doug Hellmann reminded the community that quite a few teams are yet to acknowledge the community communication goals for Ocata.  Anne Gentle followed up to say she and Doug had done a short video that explains this new process.

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

Over on OpenStack Operators, Blair Bethwaite pointed out a live blog he was curating that details OpenStack related goings on at SuperComputer16. Melvin Hillsman posted a followup about the poll to decide the location for the Ops Midcycle on March 15 & 16 next year – off to Milano it is! :)

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

No tunes, but did enjoy playing a little virtual Hammond B3 during typing breaks this evening (I didn’t record this evenings noodling, but if you’re curious I’m playing the same virtual instrument here, albeit turned up to eleven…)  Aforementioned CD didn’t arrive – there are downsides to being in the antipodes sometimes :/

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

 

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OpenStack Summit Barcelona 2016 Summary of Summaries

November 21, 2016 at 20:28 · Filed under OpenStack

Background

The last few editions of Lwood have had a list of links to the mailing list posts where the writers had provided a summary of particular Design Summit Project sessions.

Like the one from earlier in the year for Austin, the list below is the combination of these in one (hopefully!) easily searchable list :)

Project Summaries

Summaries posted to the OpenStack-Dev Mailing list

Apologies for any I’ve missed, corrections welcome :)

20161212 – Added Infra Sessions Recap

 

 

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Lwood-20161113

November 14, 2016 at 22:34 · 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 7 to 13 November for openstack-dev:

  • ~381 Messages (down about 10% relative to last week)
  • ~161 Unique threads (down about a percent relative to last week)

A pretty quiet week on list – traffic down a bit overall, I’ve a sneaking suspicion folk are still somewhat in the post-Barcelona recovery stage :)

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

OpenStack Summit Barcelona summary of summaries

This week saw a few more summaries from the summit in addition to those reported last week.

My apologies to anyone missed – please feel free to email corrections!  As per the Austin summit, these will get collated into an overall Barcelona page later this week or early next.  Stay tuned :)

Registrations open for OpenStack Project Teams Gathering (PTG) event

Thierry Carrez flagged the fact that Registrations are now open for the inaugural PTG even in Atlanta, GA during the week of February 20.

OpenStack Conference in Canberra, Australia

…was a great success and lovely to see some familiar faces from around the community in my hometown :)  Had two people come up and say thanks for Lwood too which was nice :)

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

Over on OpenStack Operators, Melvin Hillsman posted a Barcelona Retrospective and Saverio Proto pointed out there is a poll to decide the location for the Ops Midcycle on March 15 & 16 next year – either Milano or Tokyo, actually kinda tough call that one I’d reckon :)

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

Back home today but no tunes, normal service will likely be resumed last week, not least of which because my copy of Glenn Hughes’ new album should have arrived by then ;)

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

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Lwood-20161106

November 7, 2016 at 20:00 · 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 31 October to 6 November for openstack-dev:

  • ~424 Messages (up about 182% relative to last week)
  • ~163 Unique threads (up about 139% relative to last week)

No surprises that traffic both in message and thread count bounced back this week after a Summit induced lull last week.  Even with this dramatic rebound, the overall message count still only at about 75% of the long term average.

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

OpenStack Summit Barcelona summary of summaries

Following the well received item put together after the Austin summit, here is a summary of the various posts to the list this week past that err, summarised what happened in Barcelona.  The majority of them are project specific, a couple are personal recollections that span the event as a whole.

My apologies to anyone missed – please feel free to email corrections!  As per the Austin summit, these will get collated into an overall Barcelona page in the next week or so.  Stay tuned :)

Minor tweak to Ocata Release Date

Doug Hellman writes that the release date for Ocata will now be Wednesday February 22 instead of Thursday February 23, this to give the Release team more time during the final week to prepare packages after the final tags are applied.

Changes to Release Announcements

Thierry Carrez advised that there are plans afoot to create a new mailing list (likely called release-announce) to which all automated/bot generated release information would go.  This intended in part to reduce the “noise” that occurs when project that comprise many components do a new spin.

The reply-to field will point to openstack-dev so that normal discourse can occur there and the list will, by default, be in digest mode – again to minimise inbox noise.  More details in Thierry’s post and the ensuing thread.

Cross Project Discussion about Proprietary Driver Code

Sean McGinnis gave a rundown on a cross-project session that was held last week about the use of proprietary code, libraries, binaries etc. in OpenStack drivers.  As he alludes to, some of the challenges faced include where to draw the line with the drivers and what is an appropriate policy to have in place for this overall – to determine what is ok and what isn’t.

A short but important thread, worthy of your time if you’re working with hardware that makes use of code that falls into these categories.

New OpenStack Project – Valence

Malini Bhandaru wrote to announce Valence – a project that provides support for integrating Rack Scale Devices into OpenStack.

OpenStack Conference in Canberra, Australia

Courtesy of Michael Still – a heads up about an upcoming OpenStack Foundation event in Canberra.

I will concede that I am being unashamedly parochial in singling out an OpenStack conference in my home town – but hey, if you’re around, check it out and please find me and come say hi! :)

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

Another quiet week on the other lists, at least from an Lwood perspective.

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 once again brought to you by the birdsongs and other background sounds of Brunswick, Melbourne.

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

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Lwood-20161030

October 31, 2016 at 16:07 · 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 24 to 30 October for openstack-dev:

  • ~150 Messages (down about 67% relative to last week)
  • ~68 Unique threads (also down about 67% relative to last week)

As far as Lwood record keeping goes at least, the last time the list was this quiet was the week ending January 3 this year (143 messages/66 threads).  Perhaps further proof that Barcelona is a particularly convivial and productive spot – traffic in the previous three summit weeks has been in the ~300 messages range!

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

New OpenStack Security Notice

Glance Image service v1 and v2 api image-create vulnerability [OSSN-0076]

From the summary “No limits are enforced within the Glance image service for both v1 and v2 `/images` API POST method for authenticated users, resulting in possible denial of service attacks through database table saturation.” More in the original post or SSN itself.

Design Summit Notes and Miscellanea

With the Barcelona Summit concluding last week some notes from the Glance project courtesy of Brian Rosmaita and a photo of some of the OpenStack Ansible team from the camera of Monty Taylor and the keyboard of Major Hayden.

I imagine the coming weeks will see a bit of a flurry of such reports, will keep you posted.  If you can’t wait there are of course videos of most sessions from the Summit on the OpenStack Foundation website.

Storyboard enhancement to represent complex priorities

On behalf of the Storyboard project, Zara Zaimeche announced some neat new functionality that provides more fine grained representation of task priority.  Briefly whereas previously each task could be assigned a single priority (“High”, “Medium” or “Low”) , the new functionality allows users/projects to specify a level of priority as it applies to them.  It is then possible to see at a glance where other users/projects have set their priority for the task in question.

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

Another quiet week on the other lists, at least from an Lwood perspective, one I will flag though is that there’s been some proposals put forward for the location for the Ops Meetup in early 2017.  Chris Morgan elaborates here – Tokyo and Milano are the two so far.

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 the birdsongs and other background sounds of Brunswick, Melbourne.

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

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Lwood-20161023

October 24, 2016 at 21:20 · 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 17 to 23 October for openstack-dev:

  • ~463 Messages (down about 8% relative to last week)
  • ~206 Unique threads (up about 26% relative to last week)

A quieter week this week overall – higher thread count largely due to lots of single posts or short threads – many of them summit logistics related as well as a fair few relating to the new project logos (which look pretty slick!)

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

Admin Guides in tree too ?

Lana Brindley looped the list into a conversation that started on openstack-docs where Jay Faulkner noted that the Ironic team were fans of the new install-guide model.  Jay asked in part if this in-tree model could also be applied to the admin guide.  A bit of mini chorus of “oh yes us too” ensued.  Lana would welcome feedback/participation from other projects on this thread.

What Do Customers Want – answered!

Piet Kruithof drew attention to the availability of results from six studies that have been compiled by the OpenStack UX project in collaboration with Intel and the broader community.  Well worth a read.

Announcing Meteos – a Machine Learning project

Hiroyuki Eguchi announced Meteos, a project that provides Machine Learning as a Service in Apach Spark.

From Hiroyuki-san’s email: “Meteos allows users to analyze huge amount of data and predict a value by data mining and machine learning algorithms. Meteos create a workspace of Machine Learning via OpenStack Sahara’s spark plugin and manage some resources and jobs regarding Machine Learning.”

OpenStack User Survey results announced

Heidi Joy Tretheway noted that the results of the OpenStack Foundation’s eight User Survey are now available. More details in Heidi Joy’s email or on the foundation website here.

Project Mascots Revealed!

Also from Heidi Joy Tretheway was the announcement that the new project logos are ready for feedback – there’s even a sneak peek of many of them up.

End of week reports

Just the one this week that I noted – for Ironic courtesy of Ruby Loo.

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

Another quiet week on the other lists, at least from an Lwood perspective – but as noted last week, if you’re an Operator and attending the Barcelona Summit, please consider helping Piet Kruithof and team out by participating in the usability studies they have planned.

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 Bruce Hornsby (Harbor Lights), The String Contingent (Facets) and Deep Purple (The House of Blue Light)

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

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Lwood-20161016

October 17, 2016 at 20:42 · 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 10 to 16 October for openstack-dev:

  • ~502 Messages (up about 28% relative to last week)
  • ~163 Unique threads (up about 22% relative to last week)

After a couple of quieter weeks, list traffic back up again though still about 12% down on the long term average.  A fair amount of the traffic was related to Barcelona planning for the various projects and so not really relevant to Lwood.

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

TC Election process discussions continue

The thread mentioned last week, kicked off by this email from Ed Leafe, continued into this week with some interesting further discussions about possible changes to the process.  Anita Kuno’s post is about where things picked up.

It looks to me like there is something of a consensus building around the idea of having a bit more time between the candidacy part of the process and the election.  A couple of folk expressed concern about this lengthening the period of time that election officials have to be doing things, but Tony Breeds at least didn’t seem to think it it was an issue.

Another seemingly popular suggestion was to have the voting system send out the ballot emails more than once to help remind people to do their bit.

Timeframes for next PTL/TC Elections

Thierry Carrez wrote an update on planned timeframes for upcoming elections that have arisen from a recent TC meeting.  He writes in part “The TL;DR: is that PTL elections would continue to be organized around development cycle boundaries, while TC elections would continue to be organized relative to OpenStack Summit dates.”  More info in his email or over in the Gerrit review.

PTG Planning tips

John Dickinson shared some lessons learned from Swift midcycle events for the benefit of teams planning for the new PTG approach to planning development activities.  It’s a short read but worthy of your time and indeed something in there for -anyone- attending collaborative planning events I reckon :)

End of week reports

Two this week one for Ironic (Ruby Loo) the other for Horizon (Richard Jones)

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

Another quiet week on the other lists, at least from an Lwood perspective – but if you’re an Operator and attending the Barcelona Summit, please consider helping Piet Kruithof and team out by participating in the usability studies they have planned.

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 Zakk Wylde (playing Black Sabbath’s “N.I.B.” on a Hello Kitty guitar),  PAINTonPAINT (Tracks from Night Rises) and Bruce Hornsby (A Night on the Town, Harbor Lights, Scenes From The Southside)

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

 

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Lwood-20161009

October 11, 2016 at 00:18 · 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 3 to 9 October for openstack-dev:

  • ~392 Messages (down about 7% relative to last week)
  • ~134 Unique threads (down about 31% relative to last week)

Message count down a little, thread count down quite a lot – mostly a side effect I think of a couple of longer (25+ message) threads during the week.

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

TC Election Results

On behalf of the electoral team, Tony Breeds announced the TC Elections results late in the week – our new TC members are Sean Dague, Doug Hellmann, Emilien Macchi, Steve Martinelli, Jeremy Stanley and Monty Taylor.

Call for Mentors at Barcelona Events

Emily Kate Hugenbruch notes there are a couple of great volunteer mentoring opportunities at the Barcelona Summit.  First one is assisting with the Upstream University program, the second being involved in the Speed Mentoring Breakfast that Intel are sponsoring on Tuesday morning.  Full details in Emily Kate’s post.

TC Election process discussions

An interesting thread cropped up early in the week about the TC election process, kicked off by this email from Ed Leafe.  Ed proposes some tweaks to timing so that the Candidate statements be available for a bit longer so that folk have more time to read and digest them before voting starts.  He additionally suggests considering making the statements anonymous so that there is less bias on the basis of the extent to which a candidate is known or popular.
As parts of the the subsequent discussion point out, this latter has the difficulty that sometimes people do, naturally, rely on those personal connections and associations to make voting decisions.  An interesting thread and worth a read if you’re interested in the governance side of OpenStack.

Deprecating the Ceilometer API

Julien Danjou suggested deprecating the Ceilometer API as much of the functionality it provides has now devolved into other projects under the Telemetry banner, Aodh and Panko among them.

A brief thread but if metrics or alarms/autoscale are up your alley worth a read – my take is the Telemetry project over all still wants to do all these things but the approach is changing somewhat.

Architecture Working Group propose APAC friendly meeting time

Clint Byrum notes that the Architecture Working Group are proposing an alternating odd/even schedule for meetings such that every second session will be an APAC friendly time (proposed as 0100 UTC Thursdays).  Woohoo, no more 6am meetings ;)

End of Cycle Retrospectives / Postmortems

With Newton all but done, projects are doing retrospectives, this week Sridhar Ramaswamy posted one for Tacker.

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

Nothing that leapt out from the other lists this week, other than the small matter of the OpenStack Newton release officially being announced in this post from Doug Hellman!  Congratulations to all involved, a great accomplishment.

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

No tunes this week as your humble correspondent was, alas, somewhat distracted by other matters and not in a tune kinda a mood :/  On a brighter note – looking forward to giving this a spin later in the week.

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

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Lwood-20161002

October 3, 2016 at 21:50 · 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 26 September to 2 October for openstack-dev:

  • ~422 Messages (down about 23% relative to last week)
  • ~193 Unique threads (up about 13% relative to last week)

Quite a bit of pre-summit logistics and TC election related traffic this week, a fairly quiet week for Lwood though.

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

Blog post on Secure Development in Python

Travis McPeak flagged a post he put up on the OpenStack Security Project (OSSP) blog which discusses resources and tools to help developers write secure Python code.  While written with OpenStack developers in mind it has some good material in there for people doing Python development in just about any setting.

Call for Mentors and Mentees

From Kendall Nelson a piece on the mentoring program sponsored by the Women of OpenStack.  An invitation for folk to get involved in either capacity – worth considering :)

Community Contributor Awards nominations close soon

Tom Fifield wrote a quick reminder that nominations close soon for the Community Contributor Awards that Kendall Nelson announced last week.  A great way to recognise people, projects and other endeavours that further OpenStack.

TC Elections Underway

The selection of six new OpenStack Technical Committee (TC) members is underway – these new members will have a one year term.  I’ve noted the candidates below in the People and Projects section, if you’re eligible to vote you should have received an automated email to vote by now.

One thing that became clear to me in reading the various candidacy statements is that to a person we have a very capable bunch putting their names forward, we’re spoilt for choice even. My vote for the most amusing candidacy statement would have to go to this nomination from Clint Byrum though – his post quite possibly one of the funniest things I’ve read on openstack-dev :)

End of Cycle Retrospectives / Postmortems

With Newton all but done, projects are starting to do retrospectives, this week one from Jim Rollenhagen for Ironic.

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

Nothing that leapt out from the other lists this week.

People and Projects

TC Nominations

Twenty one people put their names forward for the TC Elections which as noted above are now underway: Clark Boylan, Clint Byrum, Sean Dague, Steven Dake, John Davidge, Chris Dent, John Dickinson, John Griffith, Joshua Harlow, Doug Hellman, Anita Kuno, Amrith Kumar, Ed Leafe, Emilien Macchi, Steve Martinelli, Dolph Mathews, Sean McGinnis, Jim Rollenhagen, Ben Schwarzlander, Jeremy Stanley and Monty Taylor.

Core nominations & changes

  • [Puppet] Proposing David Moreau Simard part of Puppet OpenStack CI core team – Emilien Macchi
  • [Solum] Nominating Zhu Rong for core – Devdatta Kulkarni

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 Trevor Rabin (Can’t Look Away), The Dave Brubeck Quartet (The Essential), Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble (Soul to Soul), Toto (Toto IV) and Yes (90125)

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

 

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