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Updates Nova Resource Providers update [2] Nova blueprints update [16] OpenStack-Ansible deploy guide live! [6] The Future of OpenStack Needs You [1] Need more mentors to help run Upstream Trainings at the summits Interested in doing an abridged version at smaller more local events Contact ildikov or diablo_rojo on IRC if interested New project: Nimble… Read more »

Updates: Nova placement/resource provider work [4] New release-announce list and other changes to openstack-announce [5] Formal Discussion of Documenting Upgrades[6] Stewardship Working Group description/update [7] OpenStack Liberty has reached EOL [8] Switching test jobs from Ubuntu Trusty to Xenial on the gate is happening on December 6th [9] A Continuously Changing Environment: We have core… Read more »

SuccessBot Says mriedem: We’re now running neutron by default in Ocata CI jobs [1]. stevemar: fernet token format is now the default format in keystone! thanks lbragstad samueldmq and dolphm for making this happen! Ajaegar: developer.openstack.org is now hosted by OpenStack infra. Tonyb: OpenStack requirements on pypi [2] is now a thing! All Registration Open… Read more »

Cross Project Proprietary Driver Code Recap At the Barcelona design summit there was a cross-project session on the challenge we’re running where to draw the line with proprietary driver code [1]. Option 1: All libraries imported by the driver must be licensed such that they are redistributable by package maintainers and must be compatible with… Read more »

SuccessBot Says loquacities: Newton docs are live on docs.openstack.org! Way to go docs team \o/ dhellmann: OpenStack Newton is officially released! tristanC: 6 TC members elected for Ocata [1]. dulek: Cinder gate is now voting on basic rolling upgrades support. One step closer to get assert:supports-rolling-upgrade tag. 🙂 More Thoughts on the TC Election Process… Read more »

Candidate Proposals for TC are now open Candidate proposals for the Technical committee (6 positions) are open and will remain open until 2016-10-01, 23:45 UTC. Candidacies must submit a text file to the openstack/election repository [1]. Candidates for the Technical Committee can be any foundation individual member, except the seven TC members who were elected… Read more »

Announcing firehose.openstack.org A MQTT based unified message bus for infra services. This allows a single place to go for consuming messages of events from infra services. Two interfaces for subscribing to topics: MQTT protocol on the default port Websockets over port 80 Launchpad and gerrit events are the only things currently sending message to firehose,… Read more »

Nominations for OpenStack PTLs Are Now Open Will remain open until September 18 23:45 UTC Submit a text file to the openstack/election repository [1]. File name convention: $cycle_name/$project_name/$ircname.txt In order to be an elgible candidate (and be allowed to vote) you need to have contributed an accepted patch to one of the program projects during… Read more »

Equal Chances For All Projects A proposal [1] in the OpenStack governance repository that aims to have everything across OpenStack be plugin based, or allow all projects access to the same internal APIs. Some projects have plugin interfaces, but also have project integrations in tree. Makes it difficult to see what a plugin can, and… Read more »

SuccessBot Says Notmyname: the 1.5 year long effort to get at-rest encryption in openstack swift has been finished. at-rest crypto has landed in master stevemar: API reference documentation now shows keystone’s in-tree APIs! Samueldemq: Keystone now supports Python 3.5 All Troubleshooting and ask.openstack.org Keystone team wants to do troubleshooting documents. Ask.openstack.org might be the right… Read more »