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Lwood-20170312

March 14, 2017 at 20:37 · 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 March for openstack-dev:

~447 Messages (down nearly 22% relative to the long term average)

~135 Unique threads (down just shy of 25% relative to the long term average)

Traffic about the same as last week, if anything up slightly.  A busy few days conspired against me so Lwood is a bit short and a bit late this week, apologies to those who I know set their clocks by it’s arrival… ;)

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

OpenStack Summit Boston Schedule Available

Erin Disney writes that the schedule is now up for the Boston Summit later this year.

Call for Mentors at upcoming Summit

Emily Hugenbruch notes that the upcoming Boston summit will again provide an opportunity for Mentors to assist newcomers to OpenStack in getting up to speed.  If you’re interested, please follow the info in Emily’s email and sign up.

OpenStack PTG Atlanta summary of summaries

As mentioned in the previous couple of Lwoods, with the Atlanta event concluded summaries of the event, mostly from a projects standpoint are rolling in. There were a few more this week past, listed below, and the original blog post has been updated too.

End of Week Wrap-ups, Summaries and Updates

Two this week; Ironic (Ruby Loo) and Nova (Balazs Gibizer)

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, was again working remotely and needed all the concentration I could muster despite the relative simplicity of the task at hand! :)

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Lwood-20170305

March 6, 2017 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 27 February to 5 March for openstack-dev:

~424 Messages (down nearly 26% relative to the long term average)

~154 Unique threads (down a bit over 14% relative to the long term average)

Traffic picked up a bit relative to last week though once again a fairly brief Lwood – the main thing of note to many will I suspect be the summary of summaries from the PTG

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

OpenStack Summit returns to Vancouver in 2018

Allison Price announced that the Summit is returning to the fair city of Vancouver in May 2018.

OpenStack PTG Atlanta summary of summaries

With Atlanta PTG concluded the summaries are starting to come in – as I’ve done previously I’ll link them over the next few Lwoods then put together an aggregated list

OpenStack Community Leadership Training open to all

The opportunity to take the well regarded leadership training program that had previously been made available to the TC, Board and Foundation staff is now being extended to all Community members writes Colette Alexander.

End of Week Wrap-ups, Summaries and Updates

Three this week; Horizon (Rob Cresswell), Ironic (Ruby Loo) and Zuul (Robyn Bergernon)

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, was working remotely and wasn’t an appropriate setting for tunes (aka I forgot headphones :)

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Lwood-20170226

February 27, 2017 at 22:46 · Filed under Lwood, OpenStack

Introduction

Welcome to Last week on OpenStack Dev (“Lwood”) for the week just past. For more background on Lwood, please refer here.

Basic Stats for the week 20 to 26 February for openstack-dev:

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

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

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

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

OpenStack PTG Atlanta summary of summaries

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

End of Week Wrap-ups, Summaries and Updates

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

People and Projects

Core nominations & changes

Miscellanea

Further reading

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

Credits

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

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Lwood-20170219

February 20, 2017 at 18:30 · Filed under Lwood, OpenStack

Introduction

Welcome to Last week on OpenStack Dev (“Lwood”) for the week just past. For more background on Lwood, please refer here.

Basic Stats for the week 13 to 19 February for openstack-dev:

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

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

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

 

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

Proposed Pike release schedule

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

Assistance sought for the Outreachy program

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

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

Session voting open for OpenStack Summit Boston

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

Final Team Mascots

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

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

End of Week Wrap-ups, Summaries and Updates

People and Projects

Project Team Lead Election Conclusion and Results

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

Core nominations & changes

Miscellanea

Further reading

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

Credits

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

 

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Lwood-20170212

February 13, 2017 at 19:16 · Filed under Lwood, OpenStack

Introduction

Welcome to Last week on OpenStack Dev (“Lwood”) for the week just past. For more background on Lwood, please refer here.

Basic Stats for the week 6 to 12 February for openstack-dev:

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

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

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

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

New OpenStack Security Notices

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

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

What is your favourite/most embarrassing IRC gaffe ?

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

End of Week Wrap-ups, Summaries and Updates

People and Projects

Project Team Lead Election Conclusion and Results

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

Core nominations & changes

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

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

Miscellanea

Further reading

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

Credits

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

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

 

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Lwood-20170205

February 6, 2017 at 21:38 · Filed under Lwood, OpenStack

Introduction

Welcome to Last week on OpenStack Dev (“Lwood”) for the week just past. For more background on Lwood, please refer here.

Basic Stats for the week 30 January to 5 February for openstack-dev:

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

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

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

Survey on Open Source Collaboration practices

A reminder that Allison Randal is running a brief survey on collaboration practices in Open Source development, particularly within corporations and OpenStack as part of academic research she’s undertaking.  This was flagged last week, but if you haven’t already and you can spare a few minutes to answer the brief (ten question) survey it would be much appreciated. THe Survey is here.

End of Week Wrap-ups

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

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

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

People and Projects

PTL nominations & Changes

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

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

Core nominations & changes

Miscellanea

Further reading

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

Credits

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

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

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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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