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OpenStack DefCore Process Draft Posted for Review [major milestone] OpenStack DefCore Committee is looking for community feedback about the proposed DefCore Process. March has been a month for OpenStack DefCore milestones. At the March Board meeting, the first official DefCore Guideline (called DefCore 2015.03) was approved. And the first DefCore Process draft is ready to… Read more »

Feature freeze + Kilo-3 development milestone available We just hit Feature Freeze, so please do not approve changes that add features or new configuration options unless those have been granted a feature freeze exception. This is also String Freeze, so you should avoid changing translatable strings. If you have to modify a translatable string, you… Read more »

Five years in: Charting the OpenStack galaxy The Starship Enterprise had a five year mission, to “explore strange new worlds,” among other things, and as we approach the five year mark in our own mission, it’s fun to think about the worlds we’ve seen and contemplate where to go next. Did anyone think we’d have… Read more »

OpenStack User Groups get a new home It’s easy to stay in touch with OpenStack birds-of-a-feather wherever you are, from India to Italy, with the new OpenStack User Groups portal. Even with events all over the globe, it’s super simple to stay current — join a group, and you’ll be notified of new events when… Read more »

OpenStack Technical Committee Update: Project Reform Progress Over the last few months, the Technical Committee has been discussing plans to dissolve the binary concept of the integrated release and adapt our projects structure to the future needs of collaborative development in the OpenStack community. A specification was written to describe the rationale for the reform… Read more »

OpenStack crowns “Liberty” its next release name OpenStack’s next release will be called Liberty. While you might be thinking of the word liberty in terms of “freedom” (as in free beer or other things), the name comes from a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Introducing PoshStack, the PowerShell client for OpenStack OpenStack SDKs… Read more »

OpenStack “L” naming poll We’d like your help again in selecting the right name for the development cycle and release coming after “Kilo”. Our next summit will happen in Vancouver, BC (Canada) in May. L candidate names were proposed, selected and checked for various issues… leaving 4 candidates on the final public poll. Please take… Read more »