{"id":4232,"date":"2013-05-31T10:34:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T15:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=4232"},"modified":"2013-05-31T10:48:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T15:48:01","slug":"openstack-community-weekly-newsletter-may-24-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/openstack-community-weekly-newsletter-may-24-31\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (May 24-31)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Havana-1 development milestone available <\/a><\/h3>\n

The first milestone of the Havana development cycle, “havana-1” is now available for Keystone, Glance, Nova, Horizon, Networking, Cinder, Ceilometer, and Heat. It contains all the new features that have been added since the Grizzly pre-release Feature Freeze in March. Including the oslo libraries, 63 blueprints were implemented and 671 bugs were fixed during this milestone. The next development milestone, havana-2, is scheduled for July 18th. Further details by Julien Danjou for Ceilometer<\/a><\/p>\n

The challenge of the network<\/a><\/h3>\n

Lorin Hochstein<\/a> shared a very detailed story about debugging the network in OpenStack-powered instances. The story starts with a familiar message: I can\u2019t connect to the instance. Hopefully his story will be shared by generations of new OpenStack users and become legend.<\/p>\n

Travel less, save more: introducing the OpenStack volume affinity filter<\/a><\/h3>\n

It is a common desire to have some storage space associated with an instance running on cloud. It is also a common desire to have access to it be as fast as possible. OpenStack doesn\u2019t provide a way to fine-tune this particular option out of the box. Mirantis engineer Alexey Ovchinnikov<\/a> discusses how Mirantis implemented just such an extension, what roadblocks have already been encountered, and what problems one may encounter when using it.<\/p>\n

OpenStack leaders learning by humility, doing and being good partners<\/a><\/h3>\n

Director Rob Hirschfeld<\/a> shares his thoughts about OpenStack leadership, open source collaboration and community. What are your thoughts on the matter?<\/p>\n

Notes from Board Meeting – May 30th <\/a><\/h3>\n

The OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors had a telephone meeting on May 30th<\/sup> at 9:00am PDT\/1600 UTC. The meeting lasted just about 2 hours, but the Board ran through quite a few updates and short discussions on a number of topics. The board approved and published the minutes for previous meeting on the<\/a> wiki<\/a>. Executive director Jonathan Bryce has published a brief recap of May 3oth meeting.<\/p>\n

Tips ‘n Tricks<\/h2>\n