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Success Bot Says AJaeger: With Juno End-of-Life, Python 2.6 testing has been removed from OpenStack CI. Tell us yours via IRC with a message “#success [insert success]”. Gerrit Update 12/16 Gerrit will be offline December 16th 17:00-21:00 UTC Gerrit will be upgraded to 2.11 IP address will stay the same. For questions, reply to the thread… Read more »

Individual Member Director nominations are now open The deadline for Individual Member Director nominations is next Friday, December 11, 2015 How to manage medical and health data with OpenStack, a wearable sensor and smart apps “Our hope is to inspire you to look into open source, to think of ways to solve the data problems… Read more »

Success Bot Says dims: cross-project, technical-debt-reduction effort pays dividends, no code left in oslo-incubator repo anymore. dhellmann: horizn, searchlight, python-openstackclient, ironic-introspec, manila, barbican, aodh, and sahara tagged for mitaka-1 milestone! odyssey4me: OpenStack-Ansible for Kilo and Liberty have been released. ttx: Nova mitaka-1 (13.0.0.0b1) published! flaper87: Glance m-1 is out AJaegar: The Networking Guide has been translated into… Read more »

Success Bot Says vkmc: We got 7 new interns for the Outreachy program December-March 2015 round. bauzas: Reno in place for Nova release notes. AJaeger: We now have Japanese Install Guides published for Liberty [1]. robcresswell: Horizon had a bug day! We made good progress on categorizing new bugs and removing old ones, with many members of… Read more »

Time to Make Some Assertions About Your Projects The technical committee defined a number of “assert” tags which allows a project team to to make assertions about their own deliverables: assert:follows-standard-deprecation assert:supports-upgrade assert:supports-rolling-upgrade Read more on their definitions [1] Update the project.yaml [2] of which tags apply to your project already. The OpenStack foundation will… Read more »

A primer on Magnum, OpenStack containers-as-a-service Adrian Otto, project team lead, on how Magnum works and what problems it can solve for you. OpenStack Mitaka release: what’s next for Ansible, Oslo and Designate Meet the project team leads (PTLs) for these OpenStack projects and find out how to get involved. Learn what’s coming in other… Read more »

Kilowatts for Humanity harnesses the wind and sun to electrify rural communities OpenStack-powered DreamCompute cloud computing helps keep rural microgrids up and running OpenStack and Network Function Virtualization, the backstory Jonathan Bryce, OpenStack executive director, gave a keynote at the OPNFV Summit where he talked about the two communities. Fighting cloud vendor lock-in, manga style… Read more »

New Management Tools and Processes for stable/liberty and Mitaka For release management, we used a combination of launchpad milestone pages and our wiki to track changes in releases. We used to pull releases notes for stable point releases at the time of releases. Release managers would work with PTLs and release liaisons at each milestone… Read more »

Superuser TV Introduced at the Tokyo Summit, Superuser TV offers community and industry insights, plus educational topics to support the OpenStack community. With content ranging from deployments to diversity, from emerging technologies to cloud strategy, Superuser TV is aiming to provide the community with access to a variety of perspectives and knowledge October 2015 user survey… Read more »

Liberty, the 12th release of OpenStack, came out yesterday With 1,933 individual contributors and 164 organizations contributing to the release, Liberty offers finer-grained management controls, performance enhancements for large deployments and more powerful tools for managing new technologies such as containers in production environments: Learn what’s new Break down those silos, OpenStack “The projects need to… Read more »