Community Weekly Newsletter (May 20 – 27)

 

May 27, 2011

OpenStack Community Newsletter – May 27, 2011

This weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. If you would like to add content to a weekly update or have an idea about this newsletter, please email [email protected].

OS Event Recap Spring 2011 from OpenStack on Vimeo.

HIGHLIGHTS

EVENTS

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

GENERAL COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (5/20– 5/26)

  • Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
  • OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
    • 39 Active Reviews
    • 270 Active Branches – owned by 74 people & 15 teams
    • 1214 commits by 69 people in last month
  • OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
    • 1 Active Reviews
    • 68 Active Branches – owned by 23 people & 6 teams
    • 134 commits by 16 people in last month
  • OpenStack Image Registry (GLANCE) Data
    • 5 Active Reviews
    • 25 Active Branches – owned by 7 people & 5 teams
    • 75 commits by 8 people in last month
  • Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 326 total tweets; OpenStack 1381 total tweets  (does not include RT)
  • Bugs Stats for Week: 380 Tracked Bugs; 69 New Bugs; 40 In-process Bugs; 0 Critical Bugs; 23 High Importance Bugs; 248 Bugs (Fix Committed)
  • Blueprints Stats for Week:  208 Blueprints; 13 Essential, 19 High, 18 Medium, 25 Low, 132 Undefined
  • OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  14,537 Visits, 34,442 Pageviews, 54.71% New Visits
    • Top 5 Pages: Home 39.93%; /projects 10.64%; /projects/compute 16.09%; /projects/storage 11.65%; /community 6.29%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

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OpenStack’s Big Day at Citrix Synergy

 

May 25, 2011

Today at Citrix Synergy, the OpenStack project received another big boost with the announcement of Citrix Project Olympus. From the project’s website:

Leveraging OpenStack, Project Olympus delivers the next generation in cloud computing – a scalable, flexible, open-by-design cloud solution that enables service providers and enterprise alike to build their own cloud services.

The early access program for Project Olympus gives users:

  • Citrix tested, certified and supported version of OpenStack
  • A cloud-optimized version of XenServer
  • Access to hardware
  • Personalized design, engineering, training and support services

The press release on this announcement from Citrix is available here. Feedback from the broader community on this announcement has been incredibly positive and I wanted to share a few blog posts:

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Developer Activity Review – May 20

 

May 20, 2011

Many people have asked for more insight into the developer activities for OpenStack as the large number of code changes and proposals make it difficult to monitor everything happening. In hopes of exposing more of the developer activities, I plan to post a weekly or biweekly blog post on the latest development activities. If you have any ideas for this blog post, please email me at [email protected]. I am always ready to listen to the community for new ideas.

Activities

Developer Mailing List (archive: https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/)

This is select list of topics discussed this week in the developer mailing list and is not a complete list.  Please visit the archive to see all the topics.

  • Graphical Console for VMs w/o Network Stacks – Donal Lafferty is looking for a blueprint for a graphical console instead of text console. Mike Scherbakov replied with instructions for using the current Dashboard.
  • Unassigned Essential Diablo Specs – Thierry Carrez listed a set of blueprints that are planned for Diablo but currently have no owner. The list is at https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg02432.html.
  • Python-novaclient vs. python-openstack.compute – Soren Hansen brings up the issue that we have 2 distinct but similar libraries doing the same thing; Sandy Walsh, Dan Prince, Gabe Westmaas, Ed Leafe, and Josh Kearney all joined in the discussion of how to handle this issue.
  • Global deployment of Glance – Glen Campbell raises the issue of having replicas of Glance in multiple installations and how to maintain synch. Jay Pipes, Chris Behrens, and Eric Day discussed the idea of using SWIFT to manage the multiple zones issue and offload the problem from Glance.

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For the latest on development activities on OpenStack please check these sites for more details:

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Community Weekly Newsletter (May 13 – 20)

 

OpenStack Community Newsletter – May 20, 2011

This weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. If you would like to add content to a weekly update or have an idea about this newsletter, please email [email protected].

EVENTS

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

GENERAL COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (5/13– 5/19)

  • Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
  • OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
    • 41 Active Reviews
    • 267 Active Branches – owned by 69 people & 15 teams
    • 1002 commits by 67 people in last month
  • OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
    • 4 Active Reviews
    • 64 Active Branches – owned by 22 people & 6 teams
    • 120 commits by 14 people in last month
  • OpenStack Image Registry (GLANCE) Data
    • 4 Active Reviews
    • 22 Active Branches – owned by 6 people & 5 teams
    • 85 commits by 7 people in last month
  • Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 151 total tweets; OpenStack 745 total tweets  (does not include RT)
  • Bugs Stats for Week: 356 Tracked Bugs; 89 New Bugs; 41 In-process Bugs; 0 Critical Bugs; 22 High Importance Bugs; 204 Bugs (Fix Committed)
  • Blueprints Stats for Week:  205 Blueprints; 13 Essential, 19 High, 17 Medium, 19 Low, 137 Undefined
  • OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  21,277 Visits, 47,799 Pageviews, 64.84% New Visits
    • Top 5 Pages: Home 42.60%; /projects 10.59%; /projects/compute 15.83%; /projects/storage 11.57%; /glance 5.66%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

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Mirantis: OpenStack Deployment on Fedora using Kickstart

 

May 18, 2011

The team at Mirantis published a new blog post today on deploying OpenStack on Fedora (http://mirantis.blogspot.com/2011/05/openstack-deployment-on-fedora-using.html). From the blog:

In this article, we discuss our approach to performing an Openstack installation on Fedora using our RPM repository and Kickstart. When we first started working with OpenStack, we found that the most popular platform for deploying OpenStack was Ubuntu, which seemed like a viable option for us, as there are packages for it available, as well as plenty of documentation. However, our internal infrastructure is running on Fedora, so instead of migrating the full infrastructure to Ubuntu, we decided to make OpenStack Fedora-friendly. The challenge in using Fedora, however, is that there aren’t any packages, nor is there much documentation available. Details of how we worked around these limitations are discussed below.

The complete blog post with detailed step by step directions at http://mirantis.blogspot.com/2011/05/openstack-deployment-on-fedora-using.html.

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Community Weekly Newsletter (May 7 – 13)

 

May 13, 2011

OpenStack Community Newsletter – May 13, 2011

This weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. If you would like to add content to a weekly update or have an idea about this newsletter, please email [email protected].

Developer Lounge at OpenStack Conference and Design Summit

HIGHLIGHTS

EVENTS

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

GENERAL COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (5/6– 5/12)

  • Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
  • OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
    • 41 Active Reviews
    • 268 Active Branches – owned by 72 people & 14 teams
    • 952 commits by 74 people in last month
  • OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
    • 6 Active Reviews
    • 63 Active Branches – owned by 21 people & 6 teams
    • 164 commits by 16 people in last month
  • OpenStack Image Registry (GLANCE) Data
    • 3 Active Reviews
    • 22 Active Branches – owned by 7 people & 4 teams
    • 89 commits by 10 people in last month
  • Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 244 total tweets; OpenStack 1,122 total tweets  (does not include RT)
  • Bugs Stats for Week: 336 Tracked Bugs; 95 New Bugs; 44 In-process Bugs; 1 Critical Bugs; 17 High Importance Bugs; 179 Bugs (Fix Committed)
  • Blueprints Stats for Week:  215 Blueprints; 15 Essential, 21 High, 14 Medium, 18 Low, 147 Undefined
  • OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  15,167 Visits, 34,430 Pageviews, 58.69% New Visits
    • Top 5 Pages: Home 41.94%; /projects 10.19%; /projects/compute 15.98%; /projects/storage 11.30%; /community 5.62%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

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SMEStorage supports OpenStack Object Storage in Open Cloud Platform

 

May 11, 2011

A new OpenStack ecosystem participating company announced on Monday support for OpenStack Object Storage in their Open Cloud SaaS Platform and Cloud Appliance. Step by step directions with screen shots of this integration is available at http://smestorage.com/blog/?p=1558. A follow-up blog post details how to leverage a S3 API abstraction to access OpenStack Object Storage, http://smestorage.com/blog/?p=1575. Be sure to check out their solution and support our ecossytem solutions.

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OpenStack Conference Sessions Coming Online

 

May 10, 2011

The process is now underway to upload all the recorded sessions from the OpenStack Conference. The first video is now live, the keynote from Neal Sample at eBay. It is taking a few hours to upload and configure these videos so please be patient while this process is underway. All videos will eventually be uploaded to the OpenStack Vimeo account at http://vimeo.com/user5231339. We will also publish a new Event page with links to slides and videos for all Conference presentations.

OpenStack Design Summit- Neal Sample, Ebay from OpenStack on Vimeo.

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OpenStack Conference and Design Summit Sponsored by Citrix – Feedback

 

I completed the review of the recent OpenStack Conference & Design Summit and want to share the results with the community. The attached document – OpenStack Design Summit 2011 Review contains the information collected by myself and others as well as results of the online survey. If you have additional feedback on this event, please send me an email at [email protected] so I can add the details to this document. Thanks to everyone who completed the survey or provided feedback to myself privately; the team planning our community events uses this information to assist planning our future events.

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