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SuccessBot Says russellb: Ported OVS to Python 3. notmyname: Removed the beta tag on the swift erasure code docs. AJaeger: OpenStack configuration reference has been migrated from DocBook XML to RST [1]. notmyname: This season’s Outreachy intern had her first patch merged. odyssey4me: OpenStack-Ansible 12.0.3 tagged. jordanP: My 3rd party CI correctly warned me that… Read more »

Running an OpenStack cloud? Come to the first European Mid-Cycle Operators meetup The meetup, held February 15 – 16, 2016 in Manchester, is a chance for operators to share best practices and give feedback. The keys to OpenStack startup success: Platform9 Systems Platform9 Systems opens its startup playbook, highlighting ecosystem challenges and tips for fellow… Read more »

Success Bot Says jroll: Ironic is using the devstack plugin. Tell us yours via IRC with a message “#success [insert success]”. Cross-Project Specs Approved by the Technical Committee: Chronicles Of A DLM [1]. OpenStack will adopt Tooz as an abstract layer to distributed lock managements solutions. This will allow projects to provide all the options… Read more »

Travel grants bring global community members to OpenStack Summit Key contributors from 15 countries attended the recent OpenStack Summit in Tokyo. The program for Austin is growing – find out more about the Travel Support Program. OpenStack Mitaka release: what’s next for Neutron, Cinder and Ceilometer Meet the project team leads (PTLs) and find out… Read more »

Success Bot Says AJaeger: With Juno End-of-Life, Python 2.6 testing has been removed from OpenStack CI. Tell us yours via IRC with a message “#success [insert success]”. Gerrit Update 12/16 Gerrit will be offline December 16th 17:00-21:00 UTC Gerrit will be upgraded to 2.11 IP address will stay the same. For questions, reply to the thread… Read more »

Individual Member Director nominations are now open The deadline for Individual Member Director nominations is next Friday, December 11, 2015 How to manage medical and health data with OpenStack, a wearable sensor and smart apps “Our hope is to inspire you to look into open source, to think of ways to solve the data problems… Read more »

Success Bot Says dims: cross-project, technical-debt-reduction effort pays dividends, no code left in oslo-incubator repo anymore. dhellmann: horizn, searchlight, python-openstackclient, ironic-introspec, manila, barbican, aodh, and sahara tagged for mitaka-1 milestone! odyssey4me: OpenStack-Ansible for Kilo and Liberty have been released. ttx: Nova mitaka-1 (13.0.0.0b1) published! flaper87: Glance m-1 is out AJaegar: The Networking Guide has been translated into… Read more »

Success Bot Says vkmc: We got 7 new interns for the Outreachy program December-March 2015 round. bauzas: Reno in place for Nova release notes. AJaeger: We now have Japanese Install Guides published for Liberty [1]. robcresswell: Horizon had a bug day! We made good progress on categorizing new bugs and removing old ones, with many members of… Read more »

Time to Make Some Assertions About Your Projects The technical committee defined a number of “assert” tags which allows a project team to to make assertions about their own deliverables: assert:follows-standard-deprecation assert:supports-upgrade assert:supports-rolling-upgrade Read more on their definitions [1] Update the project.yaml [2] of which tags apply to your project already. The OpenStack foundation will… Read more »

A primer on Magnum, OpenStack containers-as-a-service Adrian Otto, project team lead, on how Magnum works and what problems it can solve for you. OpenStack Mitaka release: what’s next for Ansible, Oslo and Designate Meet the project team leads (PTLs) for these OpenStack projects and find out how to get involved. Learn what’s coming in other… Read more »