{"id":7048,"date":"2015-07-30T11:52:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T16:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=7048"},"modified":"2015-07-31T10:03:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T15:03:46","slug":"technical-committee-highlights-july-24-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/technical-committee-highlights-july-24-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Technical Committee Highlights July 24, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Welcoming a common project for improving OpenStack user experience<\/h2>\n<p class=\"lead\">We accepted a proposal for a new UX Program whose mission is to support and facilitate cross-project efforts to improve the overall user experience of OpenStack. I personally find this as exciting an effort and innovative as cross-project documentation in open source. Congratulations to this team and welcome! We look forward to great collaborative and open efforts across multiple projects.<\/p>\n<h2>Starter kit suggestions change<\/h2>\n<p>With much discussion the TC decided to change the compute starter kit tag applications slightly by adding the neutron project as the networking solution and removing the cinder project as a block storage solution since starter clouds could have ephemeral storage and then add block storage later.<\/p>\n<h2>New team for RPM packaging<\/h2>\n<p>A new team has been approved to manage all packaging git repos for RPM-based distributions in the \/openstack git namespace. This team will enable gate testing and reviewing of changes<br \/>\nto the packaging close to the actual OpenStack development. The co-Project Team Leads are Dirk Mueller and Haikel Guemar. <span class=\"s1\">This team offers packaging for SUSE, openSUSE, Fedora Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or CentOS.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Stackforge resolution<\/h2>\n<p>Proceeding from our discussions about retiring Stackforge, we have continued to revise the resolution while still wanting to find a way to alleviate the extra work of organization renaming. The current proposal is instead of retiring the Stackforge project, we simply move all Stackforge projects into the &#8220;openstack\/&#8221; namespace and create new projects there as well. Then as projects become official OpenStack projects, no repository renames are necessary.\u00a0 Essentially, this means the &#8220;openstack\/&#8221; namespace will no longer hold only official OpenStack projects, but also any project being developed in our community-driven shared development environment.\u00a0 This should be a lot less disruptive to developers, users, and system administrators.<\/p>\n<h2>M naming quest resolved<\/h2>\n<p>The M release is Mitaka, say it three times fast! Mitaka, mitaka, mitaka. And if you can write\u00a0the second character\u00a0in the name, \u4e09\u9df9, color me impressed!<\/p>\n<h2>Service names and project names<\/h2>\n<p>In an insane quest for consistency and ability to write about each service in a sensible way, TC member and documentarian Anne Gentle has proposed a set of guidelines for projects and services names, even for those services that have been around a few years. After consulting with the legal team and technical editors alike, please review the <a href=\"https:\/\/review.openstack.org\/#\/c\/201160\/\"> proposed guidelines<\/a> and take a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/review.openstack.org\/#\/c\/201670\/1\/reference\/projects.yaml\">examples of possible new names<\/a> with the new guidelines applied:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Object Storage -&gt; Object storage<\/li>\n<li>Block Storage -&gt; Block storage<\/li>\n<li>Image service-&gt; Image<\/li>\n<li>Database service -&gt; Database<\/li>\n<li>Bare metal service -&gt; Bare metal<\/li>\n<li>Key-Value Store as a Service -&gt; Key value storage<\/li>\n<li>Message Broker Service -&gt; Message broker<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please take a look and comment on the reviews so we can discuss and look at various examples.<\/p>\n<h2>Introducing deliverables defined across repositories<\/h2>\n<p>We have discovered during testing across projects that often deliverables we produce<br \/>\nas a single &#8220;thing&#8221; may be represented by multiple code repositories. For example, a Networking release from the neutron team is actually made of openstack\/neutron and openstack\/neutron-lbaas and other gatherings from neutron-*aas. A release from the &#8220;sahara&#8221; team for the Data processing service\u00a0 is actually made of openstack\/sahara, openstack\/sahara-extra and openstack\/sahara-image-elements. Those repositories are all released at the same time with the same version number, and published together as a single &#8220;deliverable&#8221;. We want to ensure that the projects.yaml file indicates<br \/>\nthe collection. It makes also sense to apply the &#8220;tags&#8221; we define at that user-visible layer, rather than at the (technical) git repository layer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcoming a common project for improving OpenStack user experience We accepted a proposal for a new UX Program whose mission is to support and facilitate cross-project efforts to improve the overall user experience of OpenStack. I personally find this as exciting an effort and innovative as cross-project documentation in open source. Congratulations to this team&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/technical-committee-highlights-july-24-2015\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Technical Committee Highlights July 24, 2015\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[508],"tags":[516,499,377],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7048"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7083,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048\/revisions\/7083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}