{"id":2097,"date":"2012-03-02T01:14:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T07:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=2097"},"modified":"2012-06-01T12:49:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T17:49:20","slug":"recap-openstack-atlanta-meetup-mar-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/recap-openstack-atlanta-meetup-mar-01\/","title":{"rendered":"Recap: OpenStack Atlanta Meetup Mar 01"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Armed to the teeth with coffee, Danishes and laptops, a band of merry men, led by Sir Duncan McGreggor*, set out yesterday morning to rob the royal Essex release of any and all bugs. \u00a0The gathering of this crack dev team marked the inaugural Meetup of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/openstack-atlanta\/messages\/boards\/thread\/21009022\">OpenStack Atlanta<\/a>, a new local chapter in the rapidly growing community.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2103 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DreamHost_OpenStack.jpeg\" alt=\"DreamHost OpenStack Atlanta Meetup\" width=\"240\" height=\"179\" \/>\n<p>DreamHost\u2019s team in Atlanta facilitated the Hack-In event and hosted it in a cozy cottage.\u00a0 Rakish beards aside, these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/oubiwann\/6799057548\/in\/set-72157629127676628\/\">happy hackers<\/a> made great strides in testing Essex.\u00a0 In order to maximize their impact, the Atlanta-based group reached across the country and coordinated their efforts with fellow coders at Canonical in Colorado and DreamHost in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tech highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Testing out development deployments of OpenStack using Vagrant (some successes, some blockers)<\/li>\n<li>Testing out dev deployments of OpenStack using VirtualBox directly<\/li>\n<li>Filed some bugs for issues in Horizon regarding error feedback to users and how the documentation is generated<\/li>\n<li>Dug into issues with logging and inconsistencies in datestamps<\/li>\n<li>Uncovered some weirdness with the usage of gnu screen and hanging services\/partial DevStack installs due to sudo assumptions (DevStack assumes a passwordless sudo, and will label an install as failed if it gets hung up on the apache log tail, waiting for a password, even if the install was successful and all the services started correctly)<\/li>\n<li>Doug Hellmann made his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/review.openstack.org\/#change,4771\">first commit<\/a>\u00a0upstream to OpenStack<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bug banishment: \u00a0A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/horizon\/+bug\/944293\">bug in Horizon<\/a>\u00a0was uncovered and was confirmed later that day.\u00a0 It\u2019s currently marked as high priority and is slated to be fixed in the first Essex release candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Lloyd Dewolf and Tristan Goode for facilitating the <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/OpenStackUsersGroup\/EssexGlobalHackIn\">Essex OpenStack Global Hack-In<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*Knighthood could not be confirmed at the time of this posting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small\">Written by: Brent Scotten<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed to the teeth with coffee, Danishes and laptops, a band of merry men, led by Sir Duncan McGreggor*, set out yesterday morning to rob the royal Essex release of any and all bugs. \u00a0The gathering of this crack dev team marked the inaugural Meetup of OpenStack Atlanta, a new local chapter in the rapidly&#8230; 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