Technical Committee Highlights July 10, 2015

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Cross-project catch-all We merged a couple of cross-project specifications after adequate discussion and time to review. We now are enabling Python 3 for application integration tests and have changed the requirements management design, please click through to specs.openstack.org and read the details on each. There’s a lot of discussion about a possible Stackforge retirement in… Read more »

Technical Committee Highlights June 25, 2015

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Beginners, start your engines A compute starter kit tag has been approved, it provides a place for a beginner who only wants to try to get a computing cloud use case started. We discussed some reservations about recommending such a simple starting point, including only using nova-network for inter-vm networks, and recommending multi-host for that… Read more »

Technical Committee Highlights June 5, 2015

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Welcome to this week’s highlights from the Technical Committee. Just like every other week, this has been quite a busy one for the community and the efforts to enhance our governance model keep moving forward. The tc-approved-release tag has been approved The tc-approved-release tag was mentioned in the last edition of these highlights. The discussions… Read more »

OpenStack Technical Committee Update: Project Reform Progress

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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 and its goals. In the past weeks,… Read more »

Why all OpenStack Foundation Individual Members should vote now

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HOW TO VOTE: If you are an eligible voter, you should have received an email with the subject “OpenStack Foundation – 2015 Individual Director Election”from [email protected]. This email includes your unique voting link. If you did not receive an email, please contact [email protected]. If you are an active member of the OpenStack Foundation, you should have received an email in… Read more »

OpenStack Technical Committee Update

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Since TC elections are around the corner, the OpenStack Technical Committee had what is likely the last meeting of this cycle. The last update was about one month ago, and a lot has happened since then. Graduation Discussions The technical committee completed an integration review for both Ironic (Bare-Metal Provisioning) and Zaqar (Messaging). Ironic has… Read more »

Latest Technical Committee Updates

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The OpenStack Technical Committee meets weekly to work through requests for incubation, to review technical issues happening in currently integrated projects, and to represent the technical contributors to OpenStack. We have about a month remaining with our current crew and elections coming soon. What have we been up to? Here’s an overview of current activities…. Read more »

OpenStack Technical Committee Update (July 1)

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The last TC update discussed the DefCore effort being led by the OpenStack Foundation Board. The DefCore subcommittee had made some requests for input from the TC. This week we held a special meeting entirely focused on clarifying some points around DefCore and providing some responses to the questions given to us. It’s also worth… Read more »