Lwood-20160724

July 25, 2016 at 10:05 · 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 18 to 24 July 2016 for openstack-dev:

~515 Messages (up about 32% relative to last week)
~175 Unique threads (up a percent – basically the same as last week)

A busier week in terms of overall traffic, but the number of unique threads about the same and relatively less to note in Lwood this time around.

A reminder that for the next four weeks or so Lwood may arrive a little later than usual – I’m in the US and so it may not always be practical to get things out the door Sunday afternoon/evening… :)

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

New OpenStack Security Notice

Repeated token revocation requests can lead to service degradation or disruption (OSSN 0068)

From the summary “There is currently no limit to the frequency of keystone token revocations that can be made by a single user, in any given time frame. If a user repeatedly makes token requests, and then immediately revokes the token, a performance degradation can occur and possible DoS (Denial of Service) attacks could be directed towards keystone.”

More information and discussion in the original post or the OSSN itself.

Midcycle Summaries & Minutes

A few posts this week with minutes and/or summaries of mid cycles held these last few weeks for Cinder (Kendall Nelson), Horizon (Rob Cresswell) and Monasca (Fabio Giannetti).

More on project mascots

A few more projects kicked off the process of deciding on Mascots/Logos, as mentioned last week this all stemmed from a post by Heidi Joy Tretheway from the OpenStack Foundation.

The new threads included Charms, Cinder, Manila, Murano, Requirements, Tacker, Telemetry and Tricircle.

If you’re curious last week saw these per project threads for Ansible, App-Catalog, Congress, Designate, Freezer, Glance, Horizon, Kolla, Mistral, Neutron, Puppet, Sahara,Vitrage and Zaqar.

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

Nothing on the other lists that struck me as good Lwood material (this not, of course to say there were no useful conversations!! :)Upcoming OpenStack Events

Midcycle

[Barbican][Security] Midcycle – August 15-19 Austin, TX, USA – Fernando Diaz

Don’t forget the OpenStack Foundation’s Events Page for a list of general events that is frequently updated.

People and Projects

Core nominations & changes

[Daisycloud-core] Nominate Wei Kong as core – Zhijian Hu
[Fuel-docs] Adding Olena Logvinova and Maria Zlatkova to core – Evgeny Konstantinov
[Fuel-octane] Nominate Sergey Abramov to core – Ilya Kharin
[Magnum] Proposing Spyros Trigazis for core – Hongbin Lu
[Magnum] Dims Srinivas stepping down from core team – Hongbin Lu
[Neutron] Proposing Jakub Libosvar for testing core – Assaf Muller
[TripleO] Proposing Gabriele Cerami for tripleo-quickstart core – John Trowbridge

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 11 to 17 July 2016 for openstack-dev:

~388 Messages (up about 25% relative to last week)
~173 Unique threads (up about 35% relative to last week)

List traffic picked up quite a bit relative to last week, but total message count still down around 32% relative to the long term average of 562 messages per week since I started keeping track in late June 2015.

Note that for the next five weeks or so Lwood may arrive a little later than usual – I’m in the US and so it may not always be practical to get things out the door Sunday afternoon/evening… :)

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

Minor technical issues with Naming Polls

Monty Taylor pointed out there’s been some minor issues with the naming polls for P and Q. These look to be resolved and new emails are going out for Q with P to follow shortly thereafter.

Openstack Stewardship Working Group (SWG)

Amrith Kumar wrote early in the week announcing the kick-off meeting of the OpenStack Stewardship Working Group.

As Amrith explains, the SWG was set up by the TC with the intent that this small group would “review the leadership, communication, and decision making processes of the TC and OpenStack projects as a whole, and propose a set of improvements to the TC.” He goes on to note that anyone interested in these areas is welcome to join the Working Group.

Project Mascots

Heidi Joy Tretheway announced that the OpenStack Foundation is encouraging projects to choose a mascot to be used as a logo for the project and making an illustrator available to assist in creating them if desired. As she clarifies in a subsequent post it’s all optional, no requirement to replace existing logos/mascots if projects already have them, and, yes, there will be stickers made available :)

This in turn kicked off a flurry of per project threads about choosing mascots/logos including these for Ansible, App-Catalog, Congress, Designate, Freezer, Glance, Horizon, Kolla, Mistral, Neutron, Puppet, Sahara,Vitrage and Zaqar.

Sing in the streets of Barcelona!

Well not necessarily in the streets, but as a musician I could hardly pass up mentioning Neil Jerram’s post in which he invites anyone interested in doing some singing while in Barcelona to flag their interest in the etherpad. Neil’s making this open and inclusive and urges people not to exclude themselves on the basis of style of music or ability.

In case the prospect of hearing me sing puts you off getting involved (or even attending the Summit) don’t sweat it – it’s not a given that I’m able to attend this time around and if I do I promise to sing tunefully :)

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

High Performance / Parallel File Systems panel at Summit

Interested in High Performance / Parallel File Systems ? Blair Bethwaite floats the idea of a panel session for Barcelona dealing with this very topic over on the OpenStack-Operators list.

Upcoming OpenStack Events

Midcycle

No new midcycle – related messages this week as far as I could see other than minor logistics for events already mentioned in Lwood.

Don’t forget the OpenStack Foundation’s Events Page for a list of general events that is frequently updated.

People and Projects

Core nominations & changes

[Ansible] – Nominating Jean-Philippe Evrard for core in openstack-ansible and all openstack-ansible-* roles – Jesse Pretorius
[Fuel] Nominate Alexey Stepanov for fuel-qa and fuel-devops core – Andrey Sledzinskiy
[L2GW][Neutron] New core team member Ofer Ben-Yaakov – Sukhdev Kapur

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 4 to 10 July 2016 for openstack-dev:

~311 Messages (down about 41% relative to last week)
~128 Unique threads (down about 25% relative to last week)

Much like last year around this time, the list quite a lot quieter due to various public holidays in North America and general summer holiday goodness elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere :)

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

Bringing Murano-dashboard and Horizon App-catalog-UI closer

Kirill Zaitsev follows up discussions begun in Austin about bringing the Murano’s Dashboard and Horizon’s App Catalog closer together. The long term goal seems to be to avoid duplication of effort with a more immediate goal of a more consistent user experience.

An update on Open vSwitch support in Ansible

Travis Truman flagged email a blog post he’s done that describes some of the testing and setup he did in his home lab to experiment with this recently added functionality. It’s a good read and a nice way to get a feel for what this addition to Ansible provides.

Leadership Training recap

Collette Alexander wrote a summary of what happened last week at the leadership training session that had been organised by the OpenStack Foundation. Amrith Kumar’s blog post is a good read too – and is imaginatively titled “The OpenStack TC will NOT be opening a deli!” :)

Retiring the Nova-Docker project

Dims Srinivas kicked off a thread noting that based on the project apparently being barely active he’d kick off the process of retiring the process. A little discussion ensued, some in favour, some in dissent but all quite constructive – it’ll be interesting to see where things fetch up.

Want to present a lightning talks in Barcelona ?

If you do then Mike Perez’s email is the place to go for all the details :)

Successful bug squash for StoryBoard

Zara Zaimeche posted an update on the recent bug squash the StoryBoard project held recently. Sounds like it was very successful and one of the features – an improved UI for the comments and events timeline is indeed pretty slick. The link in Zara’s email wasn’t quite correct I think, you can see the new UI she refers to in this example.

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

Review sought for OpenStack Personas Document

Over on the OpenStack-Operators list Piet Kruithof seeks a few minutes of folks time to review the latest iteration of the OpenStack Personas Document.

Upcoming OpenStack Events

Midcycle

[nfv][tacker] – Midcycle July 27 & 28 – Virtual – Sridhar Ramaswamy
[Freezer] – Midcycle 15 July, Galway, Ireland – Pierre Mathieu
[Designate] – Midcycle 22-26 August, Dublin, Ireland – Graham Hayes

Don’t forget the OpenStack Foundation’s Events Page for a list of general events that is frequently updated.

People and Projects

Core nominations & changes

[Kolla] Stepping down from core – Michal Rostecki

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 27 June to 3 July 2016 for openstack-dev:

~523 Messages (up about 9% relative to last week)
~171 Unique threads (up about 11% relative to last week)

Bit busier this week, will likely fall off a bit next week though due to various holidays in North America I suspect… :)

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

Proposal for an Architecture Working Group – Review now in Gerrit

After further constructive discussion Clint Byrum’s well reasoned proposal for the creation of an Architecture Working Group from a few weeks back progressed to a review as mentioned in this email .

Midcycle Summaries

No new Summaries this week that I could find, but Ruby Loo sought further feedback about the Ironic midcycle (expertly summarised by Mathieu Mitchell here) that they might improve the experience all round.

TripleO Deep Dives

James Slagle proposes running a weekly hour long session to dig into topics related to TripleO. He proposes using a high bandwidth medium (Google Hangouts for example) to run these sessions.

A very favourable response, looks like the sessions will be 1400 UTC on Thursdays, more info in the original post or the etherpad. Could be a good model for any number of projects I suspect!

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

GUTS – a tool for migrating assets between OpenStack deployments

Michael Strang posted a question about data migration from Juno to Mitaka in reply to which Roland Chan pointed out the good work being done on GUTS – “A Workload migration engine designed to automatically move existing workloads and virtual machines from various virtualisation platforms to OpenStack” Looks rather neat!

Upcoming OpenStack Events

Midcycle

[Craton] Midcycle to discuss fleet management August 23-26 New York, NY, USA – Jim Baker

Don’t forget the OpenStack Foundation’s Events Page for a list of general events that is frequently updated.

People and Projects

Core nominations & changes

[Fuel] Nominate Maksim Malchuk to Fuel Library Core – Sergil Golovatiuk
[Cinder] Nominating Scott D’Angelo to Cinder core – Sean McGinnis
[Zaqar] Nominate Thomas Herve for Zaqar core – Fei Long Wang

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 20 June to 26 June 2016 for openstack-dev:

~478 Messages (down about 15% relative to last week)
~154 Unique threads (down about 12% relative to last week)

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

Midcycle Summaries

Just the one so far – Ironic Midcycle Summary courtesy of Mathieu Mitchell.

Proposal for an Architecture Working Group picks up steam

Late the week before last Clint Byrum penned a well reasoned proposal for the creation of an Architecture Working Group – at the time of last weeks Lwood then there had been little discussion.

The thread picked up quite a bit this week just past in what was at times a somewhat impassioned but collegiate discussion – looks like a draft charter will appear for comment in Gerrit before long.

Release naming for P and Q open for nominations

Monty Taylor noted that it’s time to suggest names for the P and Q releases of OpenStack, nominations close at midnight UTC on Wednesday 28 June. Voting will commence thereafter once the eligibility of names has been checked.

There’s already been a suggestion for “Panda” which may well meet the “really cool but not place name” test :)

Status of the OpenStack port to Python 3

Victor Stinner provided an update on the progress in porting to Python 3. Three projects are yet to be ported – Nova, Trove and Swift, the consensus from the ensuing thread seems to be that it’s too late to be done by Newton but is an achievable and desirable goal for Ocata.

(Answered) What do OpenStack Developers work on upstream of OpenStack ?

Last week Doug Hellman posed the question of what OpenStack Developer work on upstream of OpenStack.

He kindly took the time to collate the results in a blog post. Unsurprisingly it’s a long list and an interesting read to be sure!

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

Feedback from app developers sought

Piet Kruithof points out that the OpenStack UX project with support from the Foundation and TC are looking to build a community of application and software developers interested in providing feedback at key points during the development process ?

Sound a good initiative, please consider participating!

Upcoming OpenStack Events

Midcycle

[Operators] Midcycle August 25-26 New York, NY, USA – Jon Prouix
[Trove] Virtual Ocata Midcycle July 26-28 – Amrith Kumar

Don’t forget the OpenStack Foundation’s Events Page for a list of general events that is frequently updated.

People and Projects

Core nominations & changes

[Fuel] Nominating Dmitry Burmistrov for core reviewers of fuel-mirror – Sergey Kulanov

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 13 June to 19 June 2016 for openstack-dev:

~562 Messages (up about 1% relative to last week)
~175 Unique threads (down about 8% relative to last week)

Traffic pretty steady this week :)

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

Announcing What’s Happening in OpenStack-Ansible (“WHOA”)

Major Hayden announced the first of a monthly blog posts he’ll be doing to give an update on what’s happening in Ansible. It’s a well written read and bound to be of interest to OpenStack Developers and Operators alike. Major kindly notes that his reading of Lwood was something of a catalyst for starting this endeavour. Check it out :)

Proposal for an Architecture Working Group

Late in the week Clint Byrum penned a well reasoned proposal for the creation of an Architecture Working Group. As he puts it “This group’s charge would not be design by committee, but a place for architects to share their designs and gain support across projects to move forward with and ratify architectural decisions. That includes coordinating exploratory work that may turn into being the base of further architectural decisions for OpenStack.”

He goes on to add that his expectation is that people involved in the group would largely be senior at the companies involved and be in a position to help prioritise this work by advocating for resources to be contributed to make the work in question real.

At the time of writing just the one reply to the thread, but a positive one, have a read and see what you think :)

What do OpenStack Developers work on upstream of OpenStack ?

Was the question posed by Doug Hellmann early in the week. Doug went on to clarify that he was interested to gather information about contributions OpenStack Developers make that “were in some way triggered or related to their work on OpenStack.”

Though the thread is as yet fairly short, in part I suspect because Doug suggested offline replies which he’ll summarise, it’s already an interesting mix. Folk have noted work on everything from Linux kernel internals, to documentation in other FOSS projects to ISO8601 (I had to look it up too – date and time formats) and a myraid of other things. Will be interesting to see Dougs summary when it’s published!

Towards ensuring level playing fields for OpenStack Projects

One of the longer threads this week past was kicked off by Thierry Carrez in this post. Thierry outlines some concerns about, in essence, ensuring that new OpenStack projects which seek to become Official projects are unlikely to become overly dominated by any one organisation/company.

From the original proposed change: “The project shall provide a level open collaboration playing field for all contributors. The project shall not not benefit a single vendor, or a single vendors product offerings; nor advantage contributors from a single vendor organization due to access to source code, hardware, resources or other proprietary technology available only to those contributors.”

The review comments in Gerrit are largely positive and my read of the thread itself is the general consensus there is likewise positive – Thierry makes the point that the guidelines are used by humans that interpret them on a case by case basis which should ensure the basic intent is carried out reasonably.

All seems pretty sensible to your humble correspondent :)

A look under the hood of Nova datastructures

If you’ve ever been curious to look under the hood of Nova, Matt Booth put together a nice little summary of his journey through the data structures used in the block device section of same.

There is no Jenkins, only Zuul

How could one not include a thread with such a cool $SUBJECT – particularly with a new Ghostbusters film just around the corner ?

Silliness on my part aside – James Blair gives a concise update on the ongoing work that has seen much of the project automation used in OpenStack migrate from Jenkins to Zuul – the latter being developed specifically with OpenStack in mind.

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

An OPS Cross Project Liaison ?

So asks Lana Brindley in her post to the Openstack-Operators mailing list. Lana notes that the Docs team have a number of Cross Project Liaisons (CPLs) with OpenStack projects to coordinate documentation related matters but no such person exists on the Operators side – and she seeks volunteers. Seems a good plan :)

User Research/Usability Study

Also on the -Ops list is an email from Piet Kruithof noting that Danielle Mundle will contributing to upstream by helping to conduct user research on behalf of the OpenStack community.

He goes on to say that “One of her priorities is to begin investigating how operators both learn about OpenStack and triage issues within their deployments. As a result, you may receive an email invite from the foundation to participate in some form of research such as an interview, focus group or usability study.”

Upcoming OpenStack Events

Midcycle

[Operators] Mid-Cycle Ops Meetup venue poll Seattle or New York – Chris Morgan
[Magnum] Midcycle location poll (Austin or San Francisco) – Hongbin Lu
[QA][Infra] Newton Code Sprint – Ken Omichi

Don’t forget the OpenStack Foundation’s Events Page for a list of general events that is frequently updated.

People and Projects

Core nominations & changes

[Ironic] Proposing two new cores (Jay Faulkner & Sam Betts) – Jim Rollenhagen
[Murano] Nominating Alexander Tivelkov and Zhu Rong for murano cores – Kirill Zaitsev
[Neutron][networking-sfc] Proposing Mohan Kumar for networking-sfc core – Cathy Zhang
[Requirements][all] VOTE to expand the Requirements Team (add Matthew Thode, Dirk Mueller, Swapnil Kulkarni, Tony Breeds & Thomas Bechtold) – Dims Srinivas
[Tacker] Proposing Kanagaraj Manickam to Tacker core team5 messages – Sridhar Ramaswamy

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 6 June to 12 June 2016 for openstack-dev:

~556 Messages (up about 20% relative to last week)
~191 Unique threads (up about 24% relative to last week)

Traffic up quite a bit this week – back to within about 5% of the long term average.

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

New OpenStack Security Notice

Nova and Cinder key manager for Barbican misuses cached credentials (OSSN 0063)

From the summary “During the Icehouse release the Cinder and Nova projects added a feature that supports storage volume encryption using keys stored in Barbican. The Barbican key manager, that is part of Nova and Cinder, had a bug that could cause an authorized user to lose access to an encryption key or allow the wrong user to gain access to an encryption key.”

More information and discussion in the original post or the OSSN itself.

Golang not to be given blanket approval for use in OpenStack

While it generated relatively little list traffic in the week past, the TC met and decided not to add golang to the list of official OpenStack development languages. The door was however left open to accept its use on a project by project basis – in your humble correspondent’s opinion a reasonable middle ground.

The TC meeting minutes are here – the section in question starts at 20:20:04. You can also read the Change in question. Last but by no means least Monty Taylor posted an eloquent rationale for his “no” vote here and is, I think, worthy of your time to read irrespective of your view on the matter – a nice demonstration of how to express a view on a contentious topic and respect differing views along the way.

StackViz – a neat Visualisation utility

Tim Buckley announced that StackViz has been enabled for all devstack-gate jobs and pointed interested parties at this example output.

As Tim describes it “StackViz is a visualization utility for generating interactive visualizations of jobs in the OpenStack QA pipeline and aims to ease debugging and performance analysis tasks. Currently it renders an interactive timeline for subunit results and dstat data, but we are actively working to visualize more log types in the future.”

The example output looks pretty slick and it’s had some glowing feedback on the list :)

Higgins now Zun

Hongbin Lu gave a heads up that the recently announced container management service Higgins is being renamed to Zun due to some project name overlaps. The renaming thread itself kicked off late last month here in a post from Shu Mutou.

API Working Group’s Weekly Newsletter & Guidelines for review

…is now a regular item in the Further Reading & Miscellanea section below… :)

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

OpenStack Summit Call for Presentations

Allison Price noted that the Call for Presentations for the Summit is now open.

Upcoming OpenStack Events

Midcycle

[Monasca] Virtual Mid Cycle Coordinates – July 19/20 – Fabio Giannetti
[Puppet] Newton virtual midcycle? – Emilien Macchi
[Tacker][nfv] Straw poll on F2F vs Virtual midcycle meetup – Sridhar Ramaswamy
[Octavia] [lbaas] Mid-Cycle proposed for the week of August 22nd – Michael Johnson
[Openstack-ansible] Mid-cycle date selection (need input!) – Major Hayden

Don’t forget the OpenStack Foundation’s Events Page for a list of general events that is frequently updated.

People and Projects

PTL/Core nominations & changes

[Fuel] Nominate Ilya Kutukov for the fuel-web-core team – Bulat Gaifullin
[Fuel] Nominate Artur Svechnikov to the fuel-web-core team – Aleksey Kasatkin
[Kolla] Stepping down from core – Jeff Peeler
[Magnum][Magnum-UI] Removing David Lye, Harsh Shah and Ritesh, adding Thai Tran – Shu Mutou
[Trove] Stepping down from Trove Core – Victoria Martínez de la Cruz
[zaqar][zaqar-ui] Nominating Shu Muto for Zaqar-UI core – Thai Q Tran

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 30 May to 5 June 2016 for openstack-dev:

~462 Messages (down about 15% relative to last week)
~154 Unique threads (down about 17% relative to last week)

A quieter week last week on openstack-dev – I suspect at least in part due to holidays in a number of countries in APAC and Memorial Day in the US. A very short Lwood too – this a mixture of lower traffic and your humble correspondent being a little off colour today. The latter due in part to a curious combination of Microsoft Windows, helping a mate out with his PC, my forehead and an unexpectedly low cupboard… ;)

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

API Working Group’s Weekly Newsletter & Guidelines for review

Mike McCune posted the second edition of the API Working Group newsletter. Rather than repeat the same information here in future Lwood’s I’ll provide a link to the API WG newsletter – save some bytes :)

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

Nothing particularly lept out on openstack-operators this week.

Upcoming OpenStack Events

Midcycle

[Glance] Proposal for virtual Midcycle June 15 & 16 – Nikhil Komawar
[Manila] Virtual Midcycle June 28-29 or 30 – Ben Swartzlander
[Neutron] Midcycle August 17-19 (Changed Date) in Cork, Ireland – Henry Gessau
[Nova] Midcycle details posted to Wiki July 19-21 Hillsboro, OR, USA – Matt Riedemann
[Watcher] Midcycle details July 19-21 Hillsboro, OR, USA – Susanne Balle
Two useful Wiki pages: OpenStack Sprints and OpenStack Virtual Sprints

Don’t forget the OpenStack Foundation’s Events Page for a list of general events that is frequently updated.

People and Projects

PTL/Core nominations & changes

[Freezer] Adding Deklan Dieterly to the core team – Pierre Mathieu
[Fuel][Fuel-Astute] Core reviewers changes: Evgeny Li and Vladimir Kozhukalov – Vladimir Sharshov
[Higgins] Proposing Eli Qiao to be a Higgins core – Hongbin Lu
[Horizon] New stable-maint cores: Richard Jones, Rob Cresswell and Thai Tran – Mattihas Runge
[Infra][shade] Proposing Ricardo Carrillo Cruz for Shade core – David Shrewsbury
[Tacker] Proposing Bharath Thiruveedula to Tacker core team – Sridhar Ramaswamy
[Tosca-Parse][Heat-Translator] New core reviewers nominations: Bob Haddleton, Miguel Caballar, Bharath Thiruveedula and Mathieu Velten – Sahdev Zala
[TripleO][diskimage-builder] Proposing Stephane Miller to dib-core

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 23 May to 29 May 2016 for openstack-dev:

~541 Messages (down about 7% relative to last week)
~186 Unique threads (down about 4% relative to last week)

Pretty average sort of a week this one just past, traffic levels fairly steady on both openstack-dev and openstack-operators.

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

Install Guide Naming

Lana Brindley seeks input from the community on what to call what was the Install Guide. There’s a link in Lana’s post or you can cast your vote here.

Mentors needed in specific technical areas

Emily Hugenbruch notes that there are a dozen or so projects/areas for which the lightweight mentoring program sponsored by the Women of OpenStack still needs mentors. If you’re across Cinder, Containers, Documentation, Glance, Keystone, Murano, Neutron, Nova, Ops, Searchlight, Telemetry, TripleO or Trove please consider getting involved in this excellent initiative.

Expiring old bugs/code reviews

A couple of threads around expiring old bugs and/or code reviews popped up on the openstack-dev list this week – largely in the context of housekeeping within projects.

Markus Zoeller drew attention to a script he’s written that expires old bug reports and seeks feedback on same. He plans on using it on Nova in week R-13 and provides some of the rationale in this (Nova specific) post.

In a related effort Michael Still noted that he spent some time late last week abandoning old reviews from the Nova queue.

Tom Fifield thought to cross-post Markus’ thread to openstack-operators here which following some additional commentary from Markus led to an interesting sub-thread about how this might be perceived by folk in the Ops community and whether it might be better to use the “Expired” status for such bugs so as not to discourage future bug reporting.

Summit Evolution

Jonathan Bryce penned a short note to the list flagging the fact that he and Thierry would be hosting two online town hall meetings to discuss the changes to the OpenStack Summit. The town halls have alas already passed but there is a useful FAQ/blog post here that is worthy of your time if Summits are a part of your calendar.

API Working Group’s Weekly Newsletter & Guidelines for review

Mike McCune posts an edition of the API Working Group newsletter – as far as I can tell a new initiative from the WG and a useful one at that! In it he mentions recently merged guidelines (mentioned in last week’s Lwood), guidelines proposed for freeze, APIImpact reviews that are currently open and four guidelines currently under review.

It’s been my custom to flag the latter here in Lwood – will continue to do so for now, but do check out the WGs more comprehensive newsletter!

Where are your mid-cycle meetups ?

…is what Doug Hellmann asked and in so doing revealed one of two useful Wiki pages , thanks to Anita Kuno for the second one! OpenStack Sprints and OpenStack Virtual Sprints.

Can you help with Nova bug skimming

…so asks Markus Zoeller in this post – if you’ve some cycles spare and a bit of experience with bugs please take a look at what is involved :)

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

Nothing particularly lept out on openstack-operators this week other than the thread on closing old bugs mentioned above.

Upcoming OpenStack Events

Midcycle

[Neutron] Midcycle August 15-17 in Cork, Ireland – Henry Gessau
Two useful Wiki pages: OpenStack Sprints and OpenStack Virtual Sprints

Don’t forget the OpenStack Foundation’s Events Page for a list of general events that is frequently updated.

People and Projects

PTL/Core nominations & changes

[Glance] [stable] Proposal to add Ian Cordasco to glance-stable-maint – Nikhil Komawar
[Keystone] Welcoming Rodrigo Duarte to core team – Morgan Fainberg/Steve Martinelli
[Tacker] Proposing Lin Cheng for tacker-horizon core team – Sridhar Ramaswamy

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 16 May to 22 May 2016 for openstack-dev:

~584 Messages (down about 27% relative to last week)
~194 Unique threads (down about 17% relative to last week)

After last week’s busiest week in Lwood history, a return to average traffic levels this week. This week is the first where I’m actively keeping an eye on the rather quieter openstack-operators and openstack-community lists, not sure if this will be a long term change, we’ll see :)

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

New API guidelines for review

Mike McCune writes that there are two new API guidelines ready for review by interested parties;

Request for Volunteer Trainers at PyCon Portland OR

David Flanders notes that the OpenStack Foundation has been given the opportunity to run a 90 minute training session for Application Developers at upcoming PyCon in Portland, OR. As he rightly points “This is a great opportunity to road test the SDKs with our main user audience: application developers.” If you’re interested in helping out, please contact David ASAP :)

A refresher on the global requirements process

Dims Srinivas provides a nice concise primer/reminder on how to work with the global requirements process as it currently stands and also notes there is a new team being formed to further streamline the process.

Languages vs. Scope of OpenStack (was The Monster Thread :)

In his initial post and a subsequent reply to the thread Thierry Carrez seeks to summarise the core issues brought to light by the recent thread on bringing golang in as a supported language for developing core OpenStack projects/code. At the time of writing the thread is actually pretty short so you may want to read the various well thought through contributions yourself, but in essence;

Some projects in OpenStack are more low-level than others and require the sort of optimisation that can only be achieved in languages other than python. It’s possibly helpful to think of language choice in these terms rather than the specific language itself.

A key question is where does OpenStack stop and the wider Open Source community start – it’s suggested that there’s a couple of ways to think of this;

The first way is community-centric: “anything produced by our community is OpenStack”
The other way is product-centric which leads to the idea that “lower-level pieces are OpenStack dependencies, rather than OpenStack itself”

Thierry posits that OpenStack dependencies can and should be developed in whatever language best suits the task at hand and so doing is relatively less costly from an OpenStack community standpoint. Chris Dent notes that a similar way to make this distinction is whether the tool is useful and usable outside OpenStack.

Welcome Keystone to the World of Python 3

Morgan Fainberg notes with thanks to all involved that Keystone is now Python 3.4 compatible. Nice work :)

Austin OpenStack Summit Wrapup – Part IV

No new posts with specific Summit wrap-ups in them but as mentioned last week I’ve now pulled together an as concise as I could make it summary of those posts in a blog post here. If there are further updates I’ll edit the post accordingly.

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

As noted above, as of this week I’m trialing watching what’s happening on the openstack-operators and openstack-community lists as well…

Defining ‘users’, planning ops mid-cycles and related meetings

Over on the openstack-operators mailing list, Chris Morgan wrote a summary of one of the discussions at the Ops Meetup Team IRC meeting (!) Of note and worth a quick read is the thoughtful definition of ‘users’ for the purposes of working out who should attend Operator Mid-Cycles.

In short the preference is for people involved in large scale public and private clouds to attend, more so than vendors of said clouds. However individuals who work for large scale cloud vendors are encouraged to attend if they feel they can contribute, but are asked to wear their user rather than “promotional” hat (I paraphrase this latter).

In a related thread on openstack-operators Tom Fifield announces the meeting in question here and provides a neat summary a few days later in this post. The regular IRC meetings will occur every second Tyesday 1400h UTC in the #openstack-operators channel.

Update on Non-ATC Recognition

An email from Edgar Magana prompted the ever efficient Shamail Tahir to give a quick summary of where this process is up to.

I defer to Shamail’s email for the details but the desire to have a way to recognise contributors to OpenStack that don’t quite fit the Active Technical Contributor (ATC) definition has led to defining an Active User Contributor (AUC). This process is ongoing but will provide a defined way of identifying folk that fit this mold and so their contribution to OpenStack more generally.

Upcoming OpenStack Events

Midcycle

[Glance] Midcycle for Newton Cancelled – Nikhil Komawar
[Horizon] Physical Midcycle San Jose, CA, USA July 12-14 – Rob Cresswell
[Ironic] Virtual midcycle date poll (Poll closes May 30) – Jim Rollenhagen

Don’t forget the OpenStack Foundation’s comprehensive Events Page for a comprehensive list that is frequently updated.

People and Projects

Vulnerability Management Team changes

[Glance] Current Structure of the glance-core-sec team – Nikhil Komawar
[Security] Morgan Fainberg added to VMT – Jeremy Stanley

PTL/Core nominations & changes

[Kolla] Proposing Mauricio Lima for core reviewer – Steve Dake
[Neutron][stable] proposing Brian Haley for neutron-stable-maint – Ihar Hrachyshka
[Puppet] Proposing Ivan Berezovskiy for puppet-openstack-core – Emilien Macchi
[Searchlight] Nominating Lei Zhang to Searchlight Core – Travis Tripp
[Tricircle] PTL election conclusion – Joe Huang
[Zaqar] Nominate XiYuan Wang and Hao Wang for Zaqar core – Fei Long Wang