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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 »

Are you ready to show off your OpenStack skills? The COA high score contest has begun! July 18th through September 11th, COA exam takers with the highest score each week will win a Chromebook from the OpenStack Foundation.   Entry is easy: Go to openstack.org/coa and read the exam materials Register and schedule your exam!  … Read more »

July 19 marks the 6th birthday of OpenStack, and we’re celebrating with the entire OpenStack community during July! OpenStack is an integration engine for diverse cloud technologies, fostering collaboration among emerging communities, and none of it would be possible without the quickly growing, global OpenStack community. There are now more than 54,000 community members, over… 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SuccessBot Says Pabelanger: bare-precise has been replaced by ubuntu-precise.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 »