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Lwood-20160814

August 15, 2016 at 11:09 · 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 8 to 14 – August 2016 for openstack-dev:

  • ~581 Messages (up about 7% relative to last week)
  • ~169 Unique threads (down about 5% compared last week)

Traffic and threads pretty much steady this week relative to last – a little quieter threads wise, a few more messages.

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

Update on the API Reference and Guide Publishing process

Anne Gentle provided an update on this important effort – in short it’s going well, but more to be done.  There are a few projects she specifically notes have some further work required, I believe this needs to be done within the project code base or websites themselves.

So if you’re involved in one of Astara, Ceilometer, Cinder, Cloudkitty, Congress, Designate, Glance, Heat, Magnum, Mistral, Monasca, Sahara, Senlin, Solum, Swift, Tacker or Trove, please take a look at Anne’s email and see if you’re able to do what is required.

OS-Capabilities Library – Continued

As mentioned last week, Jay Pipes penned a rather low key email announcing some work he’s done on creating a new os-capabilities Python library.  The thread picked up a little this week with various positive comments, a question confirming its applicability across projects (Yes) and some design discussions.

The code is here, please get consider getting involved in this important endeavour.

Extra ATCs for Newton

Doug Hellman writes that it’s time to ensure we have all active technical contributors (ATCs) identified for Newton.  As he explains “…Project teams should identify contributors who have had a significant impact this cycle but who would not qualify for ATC status using the regular process because they have not submitted a patch.  Contributions might include, but aren’t limited to, bug triage, design work, and documentation — there is a lot of leeway in how teams define contribution for ATC status.”

The ATC list is approved by the TC on/around 25 August and in order to make the agenda for that meeting proposals need to be submitted by 16 August – later this week.  Please take a look at Doug’s email for more details on this process if you believe you, or someone you know should be considered.

Midcycle Summaries & Minutes

No new summaries this week that I could see – in case you missed them here is the list so far collated from the last few editions of Lwood – Cinder (Kendall Nelson), Freezer (Pierre Mathieu), Glance (Nikhil Komawar), Horizon (Rob Cresswell), Keystone (Steve Martinelli), Monasca (Fabio Giannetti) and Nova Pt.I and Pt.II (Matt Riedemann)

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

Nothing particularly lept out of the other lists this week :)

Upcoming OpenStack Events

Best I can tell no OpenStack related events mentioned this week.  Don’t forget the OpenStack Foundation’s Events Page for a list of general events that is frequently updated.

People and Projects

Requirements PTL Election result

  • Anita Kuno confirmed the results of the Requirements PTL Election welcoming Tony Breeds into the role and noting an impressive participation rate in this poll.  Full results are available here.

Core nominations & changes

New, Proposed and Changed OpenStack Projects

A new section I’m trying out this edition – a list of projects that are seeking formal OpenStack project status, projects that have been confirmed as such and/or projects that are changing names (!)

  • Proposed new project – [Storlets] – Eran Rom.  This follows Eran’s email from last week nominating for PTL of same
  • Project name change – [Smaug] is now [Karbor] – Saggi Mizrahi

Further Reading & Miscellanea

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

No particular tunes involved in this edition of Lwood I’m afraid, though was fortunate enough to see both REO Speedwagon and Def Leppard live last night – a cracker of a show it was too :)

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

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Lwood-20160807

August 8, 2016 at 09:56 · 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 1 to 7 August 2016 for openstack-dev:

  • ~544 Messages (down about 7% relative to last week)
  • ~178 Unique threads (down about 3% compared last week)

Traffic and threads down a wee bit, but still felt like a busy week on the list, a couple of long and in places slightly contentious threads perhaps contributing to this.

Notable Discussions – openstack-dev

OS-Capabilities Library for Nova (and anyone else!)

Jay Pipes wrote a rather low key email announcing some work he’s done on creating a new os-capabilities Python library.  He’d like “os-capabilities to be the place where the OpenStack community catalogs and collates standardized features for hardware, devices, networks, storage, hypervisors, etc.”  Nothing complex then :)

In my view this is an important bit of work for us as a community to get right as while hardware is mostly (and usefully) abstracted away – there are any number of legitimate cases when you really do want to know what’s under the hood.  Jay is soliciting feedback from the community on this important effort, code is here.

Introducing DON – Diagnosing OpenStack Networking

Amit Saha sent a brief email introducing a new project Diagnosing OpenStack Networking (aka DON) – a Python based tool that a provides network analysis and diagnostic system dashboard in Horizon.

Code is on GitHub here and feedback welcomed :)

Glare API work now moving to be separate project from Glance

Mikal Fedosin notes that Glare is moving from being a separate API for Glance to a standalone project in its own right, citing various reasons.  In essence it looks like Glance will be the default implementation of the OpenStack Images API and Glare of the Artifacts API.

Quite a long thread ensues, I suggest reading it if Glance/Glare are on your radar as it’s pretty nuanced, my general take is the split seems “good” to folk looking at it from a development standpoint and “not so good” for folk looking at it from an operator/end user standpoint.  Think that’s a debate I’ll stay clear of :)

Project Mascots Update

Heidi Joy Tretheway posted with the latest of the Project Mascots work.  There’s more info on the openstack.org here including a list of projects and their mascots – graphics will follow closer to Barcelona.

Midcycle Summaries & Minutes

Just the one midcycle summary this week as far as I could see – an epic in two parts (I and II) for Nova from Matt Riedemann.

This joins those mentioned previously – Cinder (Kendall Nelson), Freezer (Pierre Mathieu), Glance (Nikhil Komawar), Horizon (Rob Cresswell), Keystone (Steve Martinelli) and Monasca (Fabio Giannetti).

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

Application Development-Centric eBook Sprint

Yih Leong Sun noted over on the enterprise-wg and product-wg mailing lists that the Enterprise Working Group are planning another book sprint.  This one will be at Barcelona and will be focussed on writing a book tentatively titled “Moving Enterprise Applications to OpenStack Cloud”.

The intent is that “the ebook will be AppDev-centric and focus more on developing/migrating applications that run atop of OpenStack.” Yih’s email outlines how to get involved – they’re keen to get a good range of contributors – please consider helping out.

Upcoming OpenStack Events

Best I can tell, the Face to Face meeting for the Gluon project (August 18 & 19, Silicon Valley) announced by Bin Hu was the only new event announced this week on OpenStack-dev.

Some logistics information for the Ops Meetup in New York city later this month courtesy of Allison Price over on the OpenStack Operators list.

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

People and Projects

TC Changes

Morgan Fainberg advised that he will be stepping down from the Technical Committee with effect the next election.

PTL nominations for Requirements and Storlets

  • In her capacity as primary election official, Anita Kuno posted details of how to participate in the election for the PTL of the Requirements project.  She also confirmed the three nominees as Tony Breeds, Swapnil Kulkarni and Matthew Thode.
  • A brief note from Eran proposing to be PTL for the Storlets project and to guide it towards becoming an official OpenStack project.

Core nominations & changes

  • [Fuel] Nominate Vladimir Khlyunev for fuel-qa core – Andrey Sledzinskiy
  • [Manila] Nominate Tom Barron for core reviewer team – Ben Swartzlander
  • [Watcher] Stepping down from core – Taylor Peoples
  • [Watcher] Promote Alexchadin to the core team – Jean-Émile Dartois

Further Reading & Miscellanea

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

A little plug – as I’ve mentioned previously, I’ve submitted a talk proposal for the Barcelona OpenStack summit titled “Finding your way around the OpenStack-Dev mailing list”.

You can read about it a bit more by heading over to the voting page here, putting “Finding your way” into the Search box and (optionally!) rating the talk as you see fit :)

Voting closes Tuesday, August 9 at 6:59AM UTC – please take a moment to browse and vote for the other excellent sessions too :)

Apologies for the absence of a direct link – the decision was taken not to allow direct linking for voting this time around – a good call I think.

This edition of Lwood brought to you by The Eagles (Hotel California), Eric Clapton (Journeyman) along with a few other tunes.  On this particular occasion was listening on decent headphones – well worth doing if you haven’t already, both albums reward close listening :)

 

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Lwood-20160731

August 1, 2016 at 13:18 · 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 week 25 to 31 July 2016 for openstack-dev:

  • ~587 Messages (up about 14% relative to last week)
  • ~183 Unique threads (up about 4.5% compared last week)

Traffic picking up again with a two or three quite busy threads this week past as well as an uptick in the general chatter.

A reminder that for the next three 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

Establishing project/community-wide goals

Doug Hellman wrote an email outlining some work he’s been doing along with others in the community to “set some community-wide goals for accomplishing specific technical tasks to get projects synced up and moving in the same direction”

The proposal is detailed further here and makes for a good read for anyone contributing, or considering contributing to OpenStack.  Please take a moment to review and contribute your thoughts if you’re so inclined.

Avoiding persistently single-vendor projects

One of the critera for projects to be considered part of OpenStack (“in the big tent”) is that they enjoy a diversity of contribution – participation from a cross section of the OpenStack developer community rather than from just a single vendor or company.

It was against this backdrop that one of the longer threads last week (starting here if you’re curious) raised some, seemingly largely unfounded concerns about whether a particular project was seeking to “fly under the radar” when it came to any future entry into the OpenStack Big Tent.

Once the thread had settled out Doug Hellman kicked off a new thread that proposed that some time limits be placed on project to ensure they met the vendor/contributor diversity expectations of being an official OpenStack project.  The thread is still ongoing but some interesting and I think quite practical ideas coming forward already.

Midcycle Summaries & Minutes

A few more posts this week with minutes and/or summaries of mid cycles held recently – Freezer (Pierre Mathieu), Glance (Nikhil Komawar) and Keystone (Steve Martinelli).  These in addition to the three mentioned last week: Cinder (Kendall Nelson), Horizon (Rob Cresswell) and Monasca (Fabio Giannetti).

Update on Release Naming polls

Monty Taylor noted that the polls for naming the P and Q releases of OpenStack have now closed and the Foundation is undertaking a legal review of the names in question.  Official results will be made available as soon as this is concluded :)

Notable Discussions – other OpenStack lists

Community Voting Open for OpenStack Summit Barcelona

Curiously I couldn’t see the message come through on the on Openstack-Dev but on -Operators Erin Disney from the OpenStack Foundation announced that voting is now open for talks for the Barcelona summit.

I’ve submitted one myself this time around, details at the bottom of this edition if you’d like to vote for it :)

Input from Gnocchi users

Over on the Openstack-Operators list Gord Chung sought input on how people use/store time series data as it applies to monitoring/telemetry applications such as gnocchi.  If I understand Gord correctly they’re interested in input from folk no matter what sort of telemetry style data capture they do.

Upcoming OpenStack Events

No new events announced this week as far as I could see, but don’t forget the OpenStack Foundation’s Events Page for a list of general events that is frequently updated.

People and Projects

PTL nominations for Requirements project

As noted by Matthew Thode, the period for self nomination to be PTL of the Requirements project has started and will conclude on August 5th with voting starting shortly thereafter.  At the time of writing there’d been nominations from Tony Breeds, Swapnil Kulkarni and Matthew Thode.

Anita Kuno is the primary election official, assisted by Doug Hellman.  Anita provided some more info on how the voting process will take place in this email.

Core nominations & changes

Further Reading & Miscellanea

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

A little plug – as I’ve mentioned previously, I’ve submitted a talk proposal for the Barcelona OpenStack summit titled “Finding your way around the OpenStack-Dev mailing list”.

You can read about it a bit more by heading over to the voting page here, putting “Finding your way” into the Search box and (optionally!) rating the talk as you see fit :)

Apologies for the absence of a direct link – the decision was taken not to allow direct linking for voting this time around – a good call I think.
This edition of Lwood brought to you by the sounds of rolling thunder (literally) here in Raleigh.

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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

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

Further Reading & Miscellanea

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

A little plug – as I mentioned last week, I’ve submitted a talk proposal for the Barcelona OpenStack summit titled “Finding your way around the OpenStack-Dev mailing list”  If approved, in the session I will provide a bit of a guide for newcomers (and old hands) to navigating around the various OpenStack related mailing lists, openstack-dev in particular as well as some other useful stuff. This of course all based on my work on Lwood.  When voting goes live for the summit, I’d welcome your support if you think the proposed talk sounds worthwhile – link to follow :)

This edition of Lwood brought to you by the sounds of silence (well ambient noise at my friends place aside… ;)

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Lwood-20160717

July 18, 2016 at 10:54 · 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 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

Further Reading & Miscellanea

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

A little plug – I’ve submitted a talk proposal for the Barcelona OpenStack summit titled “Finding your way around the OpenStack-Dev mailing list”  If approved, in the session I will provide a bit of a guide for newcomers (and old hands) to navigating around the various OpenStack related mailing lists, openstack-dev in particular as well as some other useful stuff. This of course all based on my work on Lwood.  When voting goes live for the summit, I’d welcome your support if you think the proposed talk sounds worthwhile – link to follow :)

This edition of Lwood brought to you by Freddy Mercury (Barcelona) among other tunes.

 

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Lwood-20160710

July 11, 2016 at 18:06 · 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 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

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

Further Reading & Miscellanea

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

Random things I read this week;

  • Sigrok – some nice FOSS tools for electronic test equipment
  • Konig Bass Works – some lovely bass guitars made by a friend of mine

This edition of Lwood brought to you by Weather Report (Heavy Weather), Uriah Heep (Equator) and various other tunes.

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Lwood-20160703

July 4, 2016 at 20:56 · 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 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

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

Further Reading & Miscellanea

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

Random things I read this week;

  • Like last week, it was a bit of a frantic one this week past so not much to report alas

This edition of Lwood brought to you by the happy sounds of family pottering about our home.

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Lwood-20160626

June 27, 2016 at 23:34 · 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 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

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

Further Reading & Miscellanea

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

Random things I read this week;

  • Was a bit of a head down tails up week this week past so not much to report alas

This edition of Lwood brought to you by Bruce Hornsby (Hot House, Levitate and The Way It Is) among a smattering of other tunes…

 

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Lwood-20160619

June 21, 2016 at 00:04 · 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 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

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

Further Reading & Miscellanea

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

This edition of Lwood brought to you by a shuffle play of my music collection, so everything from Alan Kelly to Miles Davis to Queensrÿche to ZZ-Top…

 

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Lwood-20160612

June 13, 2016 at 18:29 · 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 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

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

Further Reading & Miscellanea

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

Random things I read this week;

  • Jon Oxer’s rather neat kitchen tile hack on superhouse.tv
  • WeeWX – Open Source weather station software

This edition of Lwood brought to you by Boston (Boston), Booker T Jones (The Road From Memphis) Bon Jovi (Greatest Hits with the odd Track Skip), Gary Moore (Wild Frontier) amongst other tunes.

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