Community Weekly Newsletter (March 25 – April 1)

 

April 1, 2011

OpenStack Community Newsletter – April 1, 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].

OpenStack Booth at UKUUG

HIGHLIGHTS

EVENTS

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

GENERAL COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (3/25– 3/31)

  • Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
  • OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
    • 24 Active Reviews
    • 202 Active Branches – owned by 53 people & 13 teams
    • 2,308 commits by 63 people in last month
  • OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
    • 3 Active Reviews
    • 48 Active Branches – owned by 21 people & 4 teams
    • 215 commits by 15 people in last month
  • Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 149 total tweets; OpenStack 427 total tweets  (does not include RT)
  • Bugs Stats for Week: 453 Tracked Bugs; 44 New Bugs; 34 In-process Bugs; 7 Critical Bugs; 61 High Importance Bugs; 255 Bugs (Fix Committed)
  • Blueprints Stats for Week:  174 Blueprints; 3 Essential, 11 High, 12 Medium, 21 Low, 127 Undefined
  • OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  11,063 Visits, 23,452 Pageviews, 57.93% New Visits
    • Top 5 Pages: Home 45.16%; /projects 12.06%; /projects/compute 15.79%; /projects/storage 10.52%; /Community 6.44%

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OpenStack Developer Activity (March 19 – 25)

 

March 25, 2011

Many people have asked for more insight into the developer activities for OpenStack as the large number of code changes and proposals make it difficult to monitor everything happening. In hopes of exposing more of the developer activities, I plan to post a weekly or biweekly blog post on the latest development activities. If you have any ideas for this blog post, please email me at [email protected]. I am always ready to listen to the community for new ideas.

Activities

Developer Mailing List (archive: https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/)

This is select list of topics discussed this week in the developer mailing list and is not a complete list.  Please visit the archive to see all the topics.

  • Cactus Feature Freeze now in effect – Thierry Carrez has announced a Feature Freeze deadline on branches that introduce new features or change the expected behavior of the blueprint.
  • vSphere support merged – Ewan Mellor notifies the community of the completion of the VMware hypervisor vSphere merge into Compute.  Ewan thanks several members for their assistance: Nerraj Koul, Rochanglien Infimate, Sateesh Chodapuneedi, Ravi Gururaj, Milind Barve, Armando Migliaccio, Salvatore Orlando, Jay Pipes, Rick Harris, Rick Clark, Anne Gently, Soren Hansen, and Thierry Carrez.
  • OpenStack API – Where do I find? – Sheshadri Amathnadu asks for the location of the OpenStack Compute and Object Storage API information. Ken Pepple suggests http://wiki.openstack.org/OpenStackAPI_1-1 and  http://docs.rackspacecloud.com/files/api/v1/cf-devguide-20100806.pdf. Sandy Walsh indicated that Compute supports both Amazon EC2 and Rackspace 1.0 API.  Sheshadri links to the Object Storage APIs at http://docs.openstack.org/openstack-object-storage/developer/content/ch03.html.
  • Instance IDs and Multiple Zones – Ed Leafe kicked off the largest discussion of the week (https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg01408.html) by looking for a solution to the problem of instances requiring unique IDs across Zones.
  • OpenStack API – Volumes? – Adam Johnson asked about the final decision on volumes in the OpenStack API. He is looking for the community consensus on what the API looks like.  Chuck Their replied that this topic is planned for discussion at the OpenStack Design Summit in April.  Justin Santa Barbara commented on the existing volume solutions and ideas for implementation, read more at https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg01425.html.

Statistics

  • Number of OpenStack Developers on Contributors List – 162 (+7 for week)
  • Cactus Release Status – Blueprints (http://wiki.openstack.org/releasestatus/)
    • Essential – 5 Design Approved; 4 Implemented – 1 Needs Code Review
    • High – 12 Blueprints; 8 Implemented – 1 Need Code Review – 3 Deferred
    • Medium – 20 Blueprints; 3 Needs Code Review; 13 Implemented –1 Good Progress – 1 Started – 2 Deferred
    • Low – 14 Blueprints; 6 Implemented – 1 Needs Code Review; – 4 Not Started – 3 Deferred
    • Undefined – 1 Implemented

For the latest on development activities on OpenStack please check these sites for more details:

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Community Weekly Newsletter (March 19 – 25)

 

OpenStack Community Newsletter – March 25, 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].

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HIGHLIGHTS

EVENTS

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

GENERAL COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (3/18– 3/24)

  • Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
  • OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
    • 22 Active Reviews
    • 192 Active Branches – owned by 48 people & 10 teams
    • 2,320 commits by 63 people in last month
  • OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
    • 4 Active Reviews
    • 47 Active Branches – owned by 19 people & 4 teams
    • 189 commits by 13 people in last month
  • Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack 113 total tweets; OpenStack 281 total tweets  (does not include RT)
  • Bugs Stats for Week:  408 Tracked Bugs; 80 New Bugs; 21 In-process Bugs; 9 Critical Bugs; 51 High Importance Bugs; 209 Bugs (Fix Committed)
  • Blueprints Stats for Week:  169 Blueprints; 4 Essential, 11 High, 16 Medium, 22 Low, 116 Undefined
  • OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  11,129 Visits, 24,014 Pageviews, 60.51% New Visits
    • Top 5 Pages: Home 43.70%; /projects 11.86%; /projects/compute 15.96%; /projects/storage 11.40%; /Community 6.20%

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OpenStack Conference / Design Summit 2011 Sponsored by Citrix

 

March 23, 2011

The time has finally come to reveal the agenda for the conference portion of next month’s OpenStack Conference / Design Summit 2011 sponsored by Citrix. The Design Summit agenda is still in active development and will be finalized once the Project Team Leader elections are complete and the new team members are able to offer input into the schedule. Please remember that I reserve the right to make any changes to this agenda; however I am confident that we are past the 95% complete mark. Register for this event here.

Thanks to the program committee for their great work in helping to create this agenda.

April 26, 2011 – Day 1
GENERAL SESSION
9:00 am – 9:15 am Welcome & OpenStack Vision Jim Curry (Rackspace Hosting)
9:15 am – 9:45 am OpenStack – Where We Are John Purrier (Rackspace Hosting)
9:45 am – 10:30 am NASA and OpenStack Linda Cureton (NASA)
10:30 am – 10:45 am BREAK
10:45 am – 11:30 am The Site Architecture You Can Edit Ryan Lane (Wikimedia Foundation)
11:30 am – 12:15 pm eBay and OpenStack Neal Sample (eBay)
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm LUNCH
1:15 pm – 1:45 pm Citrix and OpenStack Gordon Mangione (Citrix Systems)
COMMUNITY TRACK
2:00 pm – 2:45 pm Collaboration Tools in OpenStack Thierry Carrez
2:45 pm – 3:30 pm Golden Configuration Automated Testing Jesse Andrews
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm OW2 Open Source Cloudware Initiative Cedric Thomas
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Governance Policy Panel Jonathan Bryce
TECHNICAL TRACK
2:00 pm – 2:45 pm OpenStack API Extensions Jorge Williams
2:45 pm – 3:30 pm PaaS on OpenStack Nati Shalom
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Networking in OpenStack Compute TBD
4:00 pm – 4:45 pm OpenStack Dashboard Devin Carlen
4:45 pm – 5:30 pm Scaling Applications in the Cloud Sebastian Stadil
April 27, 2011 – Day 2
USER TRACK
9:00 am – 9:45 am Trusted Pools in Cloud Architecture Raghu Yeluri & Jim Greene
9:45 am – 10:30 am The Switch That’s Just Another Server Kenneth Duda
10:30 am – 11:00 am Petascale Cloud File-System Design and Implementation Anand Babu Peroasamy
11:00 am – 12:00 am Standing up an OpenStack Cloud in Intel Architecture Billy Cox
12:00 – 1:00 pm LUNCH
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Cisco and OpenStack Lew Tucker (Cisco)
SERVICE PROVIDER TRACK sponsored by DELL
1:45 pm – 2:15 pm Open Source Clouds Bernard Golden
2:15 pm – 2:45 pm Delivering OpenStack Object Storage to the People Jaesuk Ahn and Andrew Shafer
2:45 pm – 3:00 pm BREAK
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm Integrated Managed Services NG Stack via OpenStack Paul Pettigrew
3:45 pm – 4:30 pm OpenStack and Dell Rob Hirschfeld
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Group Discussion on Service Provider Plans and Initiatives Leveraging OpenStack Hosted by Bernard Golden

Finally, we have three parties set for the event to allow for time to relax and get to know your fellow OpenStack community members:

  • Welcome Reception Sponsored by Cisco – April 26th from 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
  • OpenStack Developer Gathering Sponsored by Niciria – April 27th from 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
  • Developer Party at Dave and Buster’s Sponsored by Cloudscaling – April 28th from 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Ubuntu Cloud Days IRC Event

 

March 21, 2011

On March 23 and 24th, the Ubuntu community is hosting their first Cloud Days event via IRC. Soren Hansen is representating the OpenStack Community with an introduction talk at 20.00 UTC. The schedule for Wednesday March 23 is below:

Wed 23rd Mar
16.00 UTC Cloud Computing 101, Ask your questions — kim0
17.00 UTC Scaling shared-storage web apps in the cloud with Ubuntu & GlusterFS — semiosis
18.00 UTC What is Ensemble? – Presentation and Demo — SpamapS
19.00 UTC Using Linux Containers in Natty — hallyn
20.00 UTC Open-Stack Introduction — soren

For all the details, please visit http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2011/03/ubuntu-cloud-days-approaching/.

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OpenStack Governance Elections Underway

 

The OpenStack community elections are underway until April 1, 2011 at 11:59 pm CST. All authorized members of the community should have received election emails this morning with information on how to vote and for which election. If you believe that you should have received a voting email, please contact me immediately so we can validate your eligibility to vote and fix the issue.

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OpenStack Developer Activity (March 11 – 18)

 

March 18, 2011

Many people have asked for more insight into the developer activities for OpenStack as the large number of code changes and proposals make it difficult to monitor everything happening. In hopes of exposing more of the developer activities, I plan to post a weekly or biweekly blog post on the latest development activities. If you have any ideas for this blog post, please email me at [email protected]. I am always ready to listen to the community for new ideas.

Activities

Developer Mailing List (archive: https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/)

This is select list of topics discussed this week in the developer mailing list and is not a complete list.  Please visit the archive to see all the topics.

  • Review priorities until Feature Freeze on March 24 – Thierry Carrez details the priority of code for review over the next 7 days. List at https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg01377.html.
  • Problems with path, prefix and delimiter with Object Storage – Juan Martinez notes an issue he is seeing with parameters in calling list_objects, get_objects, etc. John Dickinson clarifies the issues and it appears that the documentation needs some better clarification. Anne Gentle explains how to update the existing documentation.
  • A single cross–zone database? – Sandy Walsh brings up a design question about how to implement a sample use case – “Show me all Cutomer X Instances, across all Zones.” This lead to a quality discussion among Justin Santa Barbara, Paul Voccio, Ed Leafe, Andrew Shafer, Glen Campbell, and Eric Day. Go to https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg01345.html for the complete discussion.

Statistics

  • Number of OpenStack Developers on Contributors List – 155 (+1 for week)
  • Cactus Release Status – Blueprints (http://wiki.openstack.org/releasestatus/)
    • Essential – 5 Design Approved; 3 Implemented – 2 Needs Code Review
    • High – 11 Blueprints; 5 Implemented – 1 Slow Progress – 2 Need Code Review – 3 Deferred
    • Medium – 22 Blueprints; 5 Needs Code Review; 11 Implemented –2 Good Progress – 1 Started – 1 Not Started – 2 Deferred
    • Low – 15 Blueprints; 6 Implemented – 1 Needs Code Review; 1 Started – 5 Not Started – 2 Deferred
    • Undefined – 1 Implemented

For the latest on development activities on OpenStack please check these sites for more details:

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Community Weekly Newsletter (March 12 – 18)

 

OpenStack Community Newsletter – March 18, 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

  • UKUUG Spring 2011 Conference; March 22-24: Leeds, UK http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2011/programme/
  • Cloud and FOSS: How to Unleash Developer Productivity – Thursday March 24, 2011 at 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM EDT; Jonathan Bryce http://ht.ly/4gH4B
  • Texas Linux Fest: April 1 – 3, 2011: Austin, TX http://www.texaslinuxfest.org/
  • Spain OpenStack Community Meetup – April 14th in Madrid, Spain

DEVELOPER COMMUNITY

GENERAL COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY STATISTICS (3/11– 3/17)

  • Data Tracking Graphs – http://wiki.openstack.org/WeeklyNewsletter
  • OpenStack Compute (NOVA) Data
    • 45 Active Reviews
    • 207 Active Branches – owned by 47 people & 9 teams
    • 2,191 commits by 61 people in last month
  • OpenStack Object Storage (SWIFT) Data
    • Active Reviews
    • 45 Active Branches – owned by 19 people & 4 teams
    • 202 commits by 13 people in last month
  • Twitter Stats for Week:  #openstack  95 total tweets; OpenStack total tweets  311
  • Bugs Stats for Week:  346 Tracked Bugs; 47 New Bugs; 34 In-process Bugs; 8 Critical Bugs; 49 High Importance Bugs; 163 Bugs (Fix Committed)
  • Blueprints Stats for Week:  165 Blueprints; 5 Essential, 13 High, 19 Medium, 22 Low, 106 Undefined
  • OpenStack Website Stats for Week:  10,974 Visits, 24,038 Pageviews, 59.58% New Visits
    • Top 5 Pages: Home 43.85%; /projects 11.96%; /projects/compute 16.10%; /projects/storage 11.29%; /Community 6.67%

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Coming up in OpenStack Cactus…

 

March 16, 2011

From Thierry Carrez…

In a bit more than a week, we will hit FeatureFreeze for OpenStack “Cactus” cycle, so we start to have a good idea of what new features will make it. The Cactus cycle focus was on stability, so there are fewer new features compared to Bexar, but the developers still achieved a lot in a couple of months…

Swift (OpenStack object storage)

The Swift team really focused and stability and performance improvements this cycle. I will just single out the refactoring of the proxy to make backend requests concurrent, and improvements on sqlite3 indexing as good examples of this effort.

Glance (OpenStack image registry and delivery service)

Bexar saw the first release of Glance, and in Cactus it was vastly improved to match standards we have for the rest of OpenStack: logging, configuration and options parsing, use of paste.deploy and non-static versioning, database migrations… New features include a CLI tool and a new method for client to verify images. Glance developers might also sneak in an authentication middleware and support for HTTPS connections !

Nova (OpenStack compute)

A lot of the feature work in Nova for Cactus revolved around the OpenStack API 1.1 and exposing features through XenServer (migration, resize, rescue mode, IPv6, file and network injection…). We should also have the long-awaited live migration feature (for KVM), support for LXC containers, VHD images, multiple NICs, dynamically-configured instance flavors or volume storage on HP/Lefthand SANs. XenAPI should get support for Vlan network manager and network injection. We hope support for VMWare/vSphere hypervisor will make it.

The rest of the Nova team concentrated on testing, bugfixing (already 115 bugfixes committed to Cactus !) and producing a coherent release, as evidenced by the work on adding the missing Ipv6 support for FlatManager network model. I should also mention that the groundwork for multi-tenant accounting and multiple clusters in a region also landed in Cactus.

Over the three projects branches, last month we had more than 2500 commits by more than 75 developers. Not too bad for a project less than one-year-old… We’ll see the result of this work on Cactus release day, scheduled April 14.

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Spain OpenStack User Group Launch

 

I am pleased to announce the official launch of our first OpenStack User Group in Europe sponsored and organized by Diego Parrilla and the team at StackOps. Here are the relevant links…

Website: http://stackops.org/display/soug
Google Groups: https://groups.google.com/group/spain-openstack-user-group
Twitter: twitter.com/openstackspain

This User Group is in the final stages of planning an OpenStack Meetup in Madrid, Spain on April 14th for OpenStack and Beer. Watch the twitter feed for more information on this event in April.

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