{"id":7901,"date":"2016-09-23T21:03:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T02:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=7901"},"modified":"2016-09-26T14:41:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T19:41:46","slug":"openstack-developer-mailing-list-digest-20160923","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/openstack-developer-mailing-list-digest-20160923\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenStack Developer Mailing List Digest September 17-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"western\">Announcing firehose.openstack.org<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>A MQTT based unified message bus for infra services.<\/li>\n<li>This allows a single place to go for consuming messages of events from infra services.<\/li>\n<li>Two interfaces for subscribing to topics:\n<ul>\n<li>MQTT protocol on the default port<\/li>\n<li>Websockets over port 80<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Launchpad and gerrit events are the only things currently sending message to firehose, but the plan is to expand this.<\/li>\n<li>An example <a href=\"http:\/\/git.openstack.org\/cgit\/openstack-infra\/gerritbot\/commit\/?id=7c6e57983d499b16b3fabb864cf3b\">[1]<\/a> of gerritbot on the consuming side, which has support for subscribing to gerrit event stream over MQTT.<\/li>\n<li>A spec giving details on firehose <a href=\"http:\/\/specs.openstack.org\/openstack-infra\/infra-specs\/specs\/firehose.html\">[2]<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Docs on firehose <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.openstack.org\/infra\/system-config\/firehose.html\">[3]<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"lead\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lists.openstack.org\/pipermail\/openstack-dev\/2016-September\/103985.html\">Full thread<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 class=\"western\">Release countdown for week R-1, 26-30<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Focus: All teams should be working on release-critical bugs before the final release.<\/li>\n<li>General\n<ul>\n<li>29<sup>th<\/sup> September is the deadline for the new release candidates or release from intermediary projects.<\/li>\n<li>Quiet period to follow before the last release candidates on 6<sup>th<\/sup> October.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Release actions:\n<ul>\n<li>Projects not following the milestone-based release model who want a stable\/newton branch created should talk to the release team.<\/li>\n<li>Watch for translation patches and merge them quickly to ensure we have as many user-facing strings translated as possible in the release candidates.\n<ul>\n<li>If your project has already been branched, make sure those patches are applied to the stable branch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Liaisons for projects with independent deliverables should import the release history by preparing patches to openstack\/release.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Important Dates:\n<ul>\n<li>Newton last RC, 29 September<\/li>\n<li>Newton final release, 6 October<\/li>\n<li>Newton release schedule <a href=\"http:\/\/releases.openstack.org\/newton\/schedule.html\">[4]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lists.openstack.org\/pipermail\/openstack-dev\/2016-September\/103252.html\">Full thread<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 class=\"western\">Removal of Security and OpenStackSalt Project Teams From the Big Tent<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>The Security and OpenStackSalt projects are without PTLs. Projects leaderless default to the Technical Committee for decision of what to do with the project <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.openstack.org\/project-team-guide\/open-community.html#technical-committee-and-ptl-elections\">[5]<\/a>. Majority of the Technical Committee has agreed to have these projects removed.<\/li>\n<li>OpenStackSalt is a relatively new addition to the Big Tent, so if they got their act together, they could be reproposed.<\/li>\n<li>We still need to care about security., and we still need a home for the vulnerability management team (VMT). The suggested way forward is to have the VMT apply to be its own official project team, and have security be a working group.<\/li>\n<li>The Mitaka PTL for the Security mentions missing the election date, but provides some things the team has been working on:\n<ul>\n<li>Issuing Security Notes for Glance, Nova, Horizon, Bandit, Neutron and Barbican.<\/li>\n<li>Updating the security guide (the book we wrote on securing OpenStack)<\/li>\n<li>Hosting a midcycle and inducting new members<\/li>\n<li>Supporting the VMT with several embargoed and complex vulnerabilities<\/li>\n<li>Building up a security blog<\/li>\n<li>Making OpenStack the biggest open source project to ever receive the Core<\/li>\n<li>Infrastructure Initiative Best Practices Badge<\/li>\n<li>Working on the OpenStack Security Whitepaper<\/li>\n<li>Developing CI security tooling such as Bandit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>One of the Technical Committee members privately received information that explains why the security PTL was not on top of things. With ~60 teams around there will always be one of two that miss, but here we&#8217;re not sure it passes the bar of \u201cnon-alignment with the community\u201d that would make the security team unfit to be an official OpenStack Team.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lists.openstack.org\/pipermail\/openstack-dev\/2016-September\/thread.html#104170\">Full thread<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[1] &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/git.openstack.org\/cgit\/openstack-infra\/gerritbot\/commit\/?id=7c6e57983d499b16b3fabb864cf3b\">http:\/\/git.openstack.org\/cgit\/openstack-infra\/gerritbot\/commit\/?id=7c6e57983d499b16b3fabb864cf3b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[2] &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/specs.openstack.org\/openstack-infra\/infra-specs\/specs\/firehose.html\">http:\/\/specs.openstack.org\/openstack-infra\/infra-specs\/specs\/firehose.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[3] &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.openstack.org\/infra\/system-config\/firehose.html\">http:\/\/docs.openstack.org\/infra\/system-config\/firehose.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[4] &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/releases.openstack.org\/newton\/schedule.html\">http:\/\/releases.openstack.org\/newton\/schedule.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[5] &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.openstack.org\/project-team-guide\/open-community.html#technical-committee-and-ptl-elections\">http:\/\/docs.openstack.org\/project-team-guide\/open-community.html#technical-committee-and-ptl-elections<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announcing firehose.openstack.org A MQTT based unified message bus for infra services. This allows a single place to go for consuming messages of events from infra services. Two interfaces for subscribing to topics: MQTT protocol on the default port Websockets over port 80 Launchpad and gerrit events are the only things currently sending message to firehose,&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/openstack-developer-mailing-list-digest-20160923\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read OpenStack Developer Mailing List Digest September 17-23\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901"}],"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\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7903,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901\/revisions\/7903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}