{"id":720,"date":"2011-03-25T13:55:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T18:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=720"},"modified":"2011-03-25T13:55:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T18:55:56","slug":"openstack-developer-activity-march-19-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/openstack-developer-activity-march-19-25\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenStack Developer Activity (March 19 &#8211; 25)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">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 <a href=\"mailto:stephen.spector@openstack.org\">stephen.spector@openstack.org<\/a>. I am always ready to listen to the community for new ideas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Activities<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cactus Feature Freeze &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.launchpad.net\/openstack\/msg01527.html\">https:\/\/lists.launchpad.net\/openstack\/msg01527.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>OpenStack Design Summit Registration &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/openstack.org\/register\">http:\/\/openstack.org\/register<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Developer Mailing List<\/strong> (archive: <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.launchpad.net\/openstack\/\">https:\/\/lists.launchpad.net\/openstack\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>This is select list of topics discussed this week in the developer mailing list and is not a complete list.\u00a0 Please visit the archive to see all the topics.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Cactus Feature Freeze now in effect <\/em> &#8211; Thierry Carrez has announced a Feature Freeze deadline on branches that introduce new features or change the expected behavior of the blueprint. <strong> <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>vSphere support merged \u2013<\/em> Ewan Mellor notifies the community of the completion of the VMware hypervisor vSphere merge into Compute.\u00a0 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. <strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>OpenStack API \u2013<\/em> <em>Where do I find?<\/em> \u2013 Sheshadri Amathnadu asks for the location of the OpenStack Compute and Object Storage API information. Ken Pepple suggests <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/OpenStackAPI_1-1\">http:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/OpenStackAPI_1-1<\/a> and \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/docs.rackspacecloud.com\/files\/api\/v1\/cf-devguide-20100806.pdf\">http:\/\/docs.rackspacecloud.com\/files\/api\/v1\/cf-devguide-20100806.pdf<\/a>. Sandy Walsh indicated that Compute supports both Amazon EC2 and Rackspace 1.0 API.\u00a0 Sheshadri links to the Object Storage APIs at <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.openstack.org\/openstack-object-storage\/developer\/content\/ch03.html\">http:\/\/docs.openstack.org\/openstack-object-storage\/developer\/content\/ch03.html<\/a>. <strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>Instance IDs and Multiple Zones \u2013 <\/em>Ed Leafe kicked off the largest discussion of the week (<a href=\"https:\/\/lists.launchpad.net\/openstack\/msg01408.html\">https:\/\/lists.launchpad.net\/openstack\/msg01408.html<\/a>) by looking for a solution to the problem of instances requiring unique IDs across Zones. <strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>OpenStack API \u2013<\/em><strong> <\/strong><em>Volumes? \u2013 <\/em>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.\u00a0 Chuck Their replied that this topic is planned for discussion at the OpenStack Design Summit in April.\u00a0 Justin Santa Barbara commented on the existing volume solutions and ideas for implementation, read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.launchpad.net\/openstack\/msg01425.html\">https:\/\/lists.launchpad.net\/openstack\/msg01425.html<\/a>. <strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Statistics<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Number of OpenStack Developers on Contributors List \u2013 162 (+7 for week)<\/li>\n<li>Cactus Release Status \u2013 Blueprints (<a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/releasestatus\/\">http:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/releasestatus\/<\/a>)\n<ul>\n<li>Essential \u2013 5 Design Approved; 4 Implemented \u2013 1 Needs Code Review<\/li>\n<li>High \u2013 12 Blueprints; 8 Implemented \u2013 1 Need Code Review \u2013 3 Deferred<\/li>\n<li>Medium \u2013 20 Blueprints; 3 Needs Code Review; 13 Implemented \u20131 Good Progress \u2013 1 Started \u2013 2 Deferred<\/li>\n<li>Low \u2013 14 Blueprints; 6 Implemented &#8211; 1 Needs Code Review; &#8211; 4 Not Started \u2013 3 Deferred<\/li>\n<li>Undefined \u2013 1 Implemented<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the latest on development activities on OpenStack please check these sites for more details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OpenStack Wiki      Home Page \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/StartingPage\">http:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/StartingPage<\/a><\/li>\n<li>How to Become a      Developer on OpenStack \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/HowToContribute\">http:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/HowToContribute<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Cactus Release      Schedule \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/CactusReleaseSchedule\">http:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/CactusReleaseSchedule<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Developer      Mailing List \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/%7Eopenstack\">https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~openstack <\/a><\/li>\n<li>IRC Discussions      \u2013 #openstack on freenode<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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