Community Weekly Newsletter (May 13 – 20)

OpenStack Community Newsletter – May 20, 2011

This weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. If you would like to add content to a weekly update or have an idea about this newsletter, please email [email protected].

EVENTS

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

GENERAL COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (5/13– 5/19)

  • Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
  • OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
    • 41 Active Reviews
    • 267 Active Branches – owned by 69 people & 15 teams
    • 1002 commits by 67 people in last month
  • OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
    • 4 Active Reviews
    • 64 Active Branches – owned by 22 people & 6 teams
    • 120 commits by 14 people in last month
  • OpenStack Image Registry (GLANCE) Data
    • 4 Active Reviews
    • 22 Active Branches – owned by 6 people & 5 teams
    • 85 commits by 7 people in last month
  • Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 151 total tweets; OpenStack 745 total tweets  (does not include RT)
  • Bugs Stats for Week: 356 Tracked Bugs; 89 New Bugs; 41 In-process Bugs; 0 Critical Bugs; 22 High Importance Bugs; 204 Bugs (Fix Committed)
  • Blueprints Stats for Week:  205 Blueprints; 13 Essential, 19 High, 17 Medium, 19 Low, 137 Undefined
  • OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  21,277 Visits, 47,799 Pageviews, 64.84% New Visits
    • Top 5 Pages: Home 42.60%; /projects 10.59%; /projects/compute 15.83%; /projects/storage 11.57%; /glance 5.66%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

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Mirantis: OpenStack Deployment on Fedora using Kickstart

The team at Mirantis published a new blog post today on deploying OpenStack on Fedora (http://mirantis.blogspot.com/2011/05/openstack-deployment-on-fedora-using.html). From the blog:

In this article, we discuss our approach to performing an Openstack installation on Fedora using our RPM repository and Kickstart. When we first started working with OpenStack, we found that the most popular platform for deploying OpenStack was Ubuntu, which seemed like a viable option for us, as there are packages for it available, as well as plenty of documentation. However, our internal infrastructure is running on Fedora, so instead of migrating the full infrastructure to Ubuntu, we decided to make OpenStack Fedora-friendly. The challenge in using Fedora, however, is that there aren’t any packages, nor is there much documentation available. Details of how we worked around these limitations are discussed below.

The complete blog post with detailed step by step directions at http://mirantis.blogspot.com/2011/05/openstack-deployment-on-fedora-using.html.

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Community Weekly Newsletter (May 7 – 13)

OpenStack Community Newsletter – May 13, 2011

This weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. If you would like to add content to a weekly update or have an idea about this newsletter, please email [email protected].

Developer Lounge at OpenStack Conference and Design Summit

HIGHLIGHTS

EVENTS

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

GENERAL COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (5/6– 5/12)

  • Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
  • OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
    • 41 Active Reviews
    • 268 Active Branches – owned by 72 people & 14 teams
    • 952 commits by 74 people in last month
  • OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
    • 6 Active Reviews
    • 63 Active Branches – owned by 21 people & 6 teams
    • 164 commits by 16 people in last month
  • OpenStack Image Registry (GLANCE) Data
    • 3 Active Reviews
    • 22 Active Branches – owned by 7 people & 4 teams
    • 89 commits by 10 people in last month
  • Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 244 total tweets; OpenStack 1,122 total tweets  (does not include RT)
  • Bugs Stats for Week: 336 Tracked Bugs; 95 New Bugs; 44 In-process Bugs; 1 Critical Bugs; 17 High Importance Bugs; 179 Bugs (Fix Committed)
  • Blueprints Stats for Week:  215 Blueprints; 15 Essential, 21 High, 14 Medium, 18 Low, 147 Undefined
  • OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  15,167 Visits, 34,430 Pageviews, 58.69% New Visits
    • Top 5 Pages: Home 41.94%; /projects 10.19%; /projects/compute 15.98%; /projects/storage 11.30%; /community 5.62%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

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SMEStorage supports OpenStack Object Storage in Open Cloud Platform

A new OpenStack ecosystem participating company announced on Monday support for OpenStack Object Storage in their Open Cloud SaaS Platform and Cloud Appliance. Step by step directions with screen shots of this integration is available at http://smestorage.com/blog/?p=1558. A follow-up blog post details how to leverage a S3 API abstraction to access OpenStack Object Storage, http://smestorage.com/blog/?p=1575. Be sure to check out their solution and support our ecossytem solutions.

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OpenStack Conference Sessions Coming Online

The process is now underway to upload all the recorded sessions from the OpenStack Conference. The first video is now live, the keynote from Neal Sample at eBay. It is taking a few hours to upload and configure these videos so please be patient while this process is underway. All videos will eventually be uploaded to the OpenStack Vimeo account at http://vimeo.com/user5231339. We will also publish a new Event page with links to slides and videos for all Conference presentations.

OpenStack Design Summit- Neal Sample, Ebay from OpenStack on Vimeo.

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OpenStack Conference and Design Summit Sponsored by Citrix – Feedback

I completed the review of the recent OpenStack Conference & Design Summit and want to share the results with the community. The attached document – OpenStack Design Summit 2011 Review contains the information collected by myself and others as well as results of the online survey. If you have additional feedback on this event, please send me an email at [email protected] so I can add the details to this document. Thanks to everyone who completed the survey or provided feedback to myself privately; the team planning our community events uses this information to assist planning our future events.

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Community Weekly Newsletter (April 29 – May 6)

OpenStack Community Newsletter – May 6, 2011

This weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. If you would like to add content to a weekly update or have an idea about this newsletter, please email [email protected].

HIGHLIGHTS

EVENTS

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

GENERAL COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (4/29– 5/5)

  • Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
  • OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
    • 38 Active Reviews
    • 248 Active Branches – owned by 66 people & 14 teams
    • 1,054 commits by 69 people in last month
  • OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
    • 4 Active Reviews
    • 63 Active Branches – owned by 21 people & 6 teams
    • 152 commits by 16 people in last month
  • OpenStack Image Registry (GLANCE) Data
    • 4 Active Reviews
    • 23 Active Branches – owned by 7 people & 4 teams
    • 112 commits by 10 people in last month
  • Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 560 total tweets; OpenStack 1,431 total tweets  (does not include RT)
  • Bugs Stats for Week: 311 Tracked Bugs; 81 New Bugs; 38 In-process Bugs; 1 Critical Bugs; 15 High Importance Bugs; 176 Bugs (Fix Committed)
  • Blueprints Stats for Week:  218 Blueprints; 1 Essential, 11 High, 10 Medium, 17 Low, 179 Undefined
  • OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  14,394 Visits, 32,394 Pageviews, 56.12% New Visits
    • Top 5 Pages: Home 38.98%; /projects 10.26%; /projects/compute 16.48%; /projects/storage 10.91%; /projects/glance 5.48%

OPENSTACK IN THE NEWS

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OpenStack Community Message Boards UPDATE

With the release yesterday of an OpenStack message board system, the community has quickly realized that significant demand exists and we have decided to re-evaluate the various technologies to ensure that we provide the optimal solution to meet the growing demand. The Project Policy Board is is working on a process to make decisions on our official communication tools that will result in new tools being deployed in the near future to meet the needs of the community beyond the existing tools (IRC and Mailing List).. I anticipate the re-launch of a forum next week with the full support of the entire community. Please watch this blog and Twitter for more information on this important support mechanism.

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OpenStack Launches Community Message Boards

The OpenStack community has launched a new communication tool to better allow prospective and current users to share ideas and solutions to common problems when deploying or using OpenStack technologies. Of course, developers and technologists are more than welcome to join the forum boards to provide answers and add questions of their own. The site is available at http://forums.openstack.org/.

Sign up today and start leveraging your existing knowledge (and learn even more) of OpenStack in Object Storage (SWIFT), Compute (NOVA), and Image Service (GLANCE).

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