Defining OpenStack “Core” Quite a lot of debates online and not around the DefCore initiative, triggered by a message by Thierry Carrez with comments from Mark McLoughlin, Nick Barcet, Troy Toman, Dan Wendlandt, Mark Collier, Tim Bell, Eric Windisch, Boris Renski, Pete Chadwik, Randy Bias, and others. StoryBoard sprint in Brussels StoryBoard is a project… Read more »
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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Jan 24 – 31)
OpenStack 2014: Powered by Users If momentum is any indication, 2014 is poised to be a defining year for OpenStack. All of our vital statistics, from community growth to code commits and tracked deployments, doubled in 2013, and all signs point to continued growth. As we start a new year, we in the OpenStack Foundation… Read more »
OpenStack T-Shirt Design Contest
It’s a new year and we’re looking for a new design to grace OpenStack’s T-Shirts. Here’s your chance to show us your creative talent and submit an original design for our 2014 OpenStack T-shirt Design Contest! If you’d like to participate simply send a sketch of your design to [email protected]. Deadline: March 15, 2014 The winning… Read more »
Chairman’s Corner: Great 2013 to even Greater 2014
2013 was a very active year for the OpenStack board of Directors – and as a personal note, a very enjoyable year. When the Foundation launched in September of 2012, the critics were troubled that the Foundation would be led by such a large board of 24 members. Although 24 is large for a board,… Read more »
OpenStack 2014: Powered by Users
If momentum is any indication, 2014 is poised to be a defining year for OpenStack. All of our vital statistics, from community growth to code commits and tracked deployments, doubled in 2013, and all signs point to continued growth. Still, we continue to hear the questions: Who’s really driving OpenStack? Are there too many cooks… Read more »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Jan 17 – 24)
Icehouse-2 development milestone available The second milestone of the Icehouse development cycle, “icehouse-2” is now available for Keystone, Glance, Nova, Horizon, Neutron, Cinder, Ceilometer, Heat, and Trove. Including the oslo libraries, “only” 50 blueprints were implemented and about 650 bugs were fixed during this milestone, which is slightly less than our usual velocity at that… Read more »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Jan 10 – 17)
Election Results for Individual and Gold Directors Each January two of the Foundation member classes hold elections to determine their Board representatives for 2014. The Gold Members held their election on January 6th-7th while Individual Members elected their Directors between Jan 12th-17th. Today the 2014 election of Individual Directors has closed and the official results… Read more »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Jan 3 – 10)
How are we picking the OpenStack DefCore “must pass” tests? WARNING LABEL: THE FOLLOWING SELECTION CRITERIA ARE PRELIMINARY TO GET FEEDBACK AND HELP VALIDATE THE PROCESS. As part of the DefCore work, we have the challenge of taking all the Tempest tests and figuring out which ones are the “must-pass” tests that will define core… Read more »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Jan 3 2014)
OpenStack Documentation Wrap Up for 2013 It’s that time of the new year to reflect and look for ways to keep improving the OpenStack docs. Here’s a list of major events from 2013 in OpenStack doc-land. Anne Gentle looks at the past year in review. OpenStack strong at LinuxConfAustralia (LCA) A full-day miniconf on Tuesday… Read more »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Dec 20 – 27)
OpenStack “J” naming poll closed Polls closed, the OpenStack community decided: Juno will be the name of the OpenStack development cycle starting in May 2014, after the Icehouse cycle completes. Third party testing with Turbo-Hipster Soon you are going to see a new robot barista leaving comments on Nova code reviews. He is obsessed with… Read more »