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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 »

Status of the OpenStack Port to Python 3 The only projects not ported to Python 3 yet: Nova (76%) Trove (42%) Swift (0%) Number of projects already ported: 19 Oslo Libraries 4 development tools 22 OpenStack Clients 6 OpenStack Libraries (os-brick, taskflow, etc) 12 OpenStack services approved by the TC 17 OpenStack services (not approved… Read more »

SuccessBot Says Qiming: Senlin has completed API migration from WADL. Mugsie: Kiall Fixed the gate – development can now continue!!! notmyname: exactly 6 years ago today, Swift was put into production kiall: DNS API reference is live [1]. sdague: Nova legacy v2 api code removed [2]. HenryG: Last remnant of oslo incubator removed from Neutron… Read more »

SuccessBot Says Pabelanger: bare-precise has been replaced by ubuntu-precise. Long live DIB bknudson: The Keystone CLI is finally gone. Long live openstack CLI. Jrichli: swift just merged a large effort that started over a year ago that will facilitate new capabilities – like encryption All Release Count Down for Week R-20, May 16-20 Focus Teams… Read more »

Success Bot Says Sdague: nova-network is deprecated [1] Ajaeger: OpenStack content on Transifex has been removed, Zanata on translate.openstack.org has proven to be stable platform for all translators and thus Transifex is not needed anymore. All Backwards Compatibility Follow-up Agreements from recent backwards compatibility for clients and libraries session: Clients need to talk to all… Read more »

Success Bot Says Clarkb: infra team redeployed Gerrit on a new larger server. Should serve reviews with fewer 500 errors. danpb: wooohoooo, finally booted a real VM using nova + os-vif + openvswitch + privsep neiljerram: Neutron routed networks spec was merged today; great job Carl + everyone else who contributed! Sigmavirus24: Hacking 0.11.0 is… Read more »

SuccessBot Says Ttx: Design Summit placeholder sessions pushed to the Austin official schedule. Pabelanger: Launched our first ubuntu-xenial job with node pool! Mriedem: Flavors are now in the Nova API database. sridhar_ram: First official release of Tacker 0.3.0 for Mitaka is released! Dhellmann: we have declared Mitaka released, congratulations everyone! Tristanc: 54 PTL and 7… Read more »