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<h2>Highlights of the week</h2>
<h3><a
href="https://launchpad.net/%7Eopenstack/+poll/h-release-naming"
data-mce-href="https://launchpad.net/~openstack/+poll/h-release-naming">"H"
stands for Havana</a><br data-mce-bogus="1">
</h3>
<p>The polls closed, <strong>Havana</strong> will be the code
name for the OpenStack release following Grizzly.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.icchasethi.com/?p=18">Contributing to
OpenStack</a></h3>
<p>Rackspace’s Iccha Sethi conducted a workshop on Contributing to
OpenStack. Look at the presentation on her blog.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=1043">Quota Project:
An effective way to manage the usage of your Swift-based
storage cloud</a></h3>
<p>Quota is a production-ready project that is mainly used for
controlling the usage of account and containers in OpenStack
Swift. The Zmanda team talks about Swift Quota which has been
used in <a href="http://stacklab.org/" target="_blank">StackLab
</a>– a production public cloud for users to try out.</p>
<h3><a href="http://markmail.org/message/bgpbjlpadqjle57e">OpenStack
2012.2.3 released</a></h3>
<p>In the time since the Folsom release, the maintainer of
OpenStack stable branch have been busy selectively back-porting
bugfixes to the <strong>stable</strong>/folsom branch according
to our “<a href="http://wiki.openstack.org/StableBranch">safe
source of high-impact fixes” criteria</a>. These releases are
bugfix updates to Folsom and are intended to be relatively risk
free with no intentional regressions or API changes. <a
href="http://wiki.openstack.org/ReleaseNotes/2012.2.3">Read
the full Release Notes</a>.</p>
<h3><a href="https://github.com/chmouel/ftp-cloudfs">Access
OpenStack Swift as an FTP/SFTP service</a></h3>
<p>ftp-cloudfs is a proxy service that can be used to access to
the object storage with any regular FTP client. The project is
mature now and it’s in production at Memset and other cloud
storage providers. Sftp-cloudfs offers similar abstraction but
for the SFTP. The code is on github for both projects <a
href="https://github.com/chmouel/ftp-cloudfs">https://github.com/chmouel/ftp-cloudfs</a>
and <a href="https://github.com/Memset/sftpcloudfs">https://github.com/Memset/sftpcloudfs</a></p>
<h3><a href="http://markmail.org/message/wce54eimw6oowo2y">Looking
for active reviewers — and inclusion in QA-core</a></h3>
<p>As the OpenStack projects grow, so does <strong>Tempest</strong>.
While the team has been successful recently in improving the
runtime of <strong>Tempest</strong> and getting full test suite
runs gating other projects, the number of new code submissions
to <strong>Tempest</strong> has exploded recently as more
contributors find their way to <strong>Tempest</strong>. What
this means is that the team needs more people that do reviews.</p>
<h2>Security Advisories</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://markmail.org/message/r2vvh6c4vw22hlr4">Backend
password leak in Glance error message (CVE-2013-0212)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://markmail.org/message/xyezeqgexg2dbqzh">Boot
from volume allows access to random volumes (CVE-2013-0208)</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Tips and tricks</h2>
<ul>
<li>By <a href="http://ladquin.dreamwidth.org/">Laura Alves</a>:
<a href="http://ladquin.dreamwidth.org/982.html">Let’s get
technical: RESTful APIs</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Upcoming Events</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/"
target="_blank">FOSDEM’13</a> Feb 02 – 03, 2013 – Bruxelles,
Belgium <a
href="https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/"
target="_blank">Cloud track</a></li>
<li><a href="http://gnunify.in/2013/events/OpenStack_Mini_Conf"
target="_blank">OpenStack Mini-Conf at gnuNify</a> Feb 15,
2013 – Pune, India <a
href="http://gnunify.in/2013/event/OpenStack_Mini_Conf"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/97648722/"
target="_blank">Second Swiss OpenStack User Group Meeting</a>
Feb 19, 2013 – Zurich, Switzerland <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/97648722/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x/"
target="_blank">SCALE 11x</a> Feb 22 – 24, 2013 – Los
Angeles, CA <a
href="https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/pulse/agenda/index.html"
target="_blank">Pulse 2013</a> Mar 03 – 06, 2013 – Las
Vegas, NV <a
href="https://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/pulse/agenda/index.html"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://openstack.jp/events/osdt2013.html"
target="_blank">OpenStack Day Tokyo 2013</a> Mar 12, 2013 –
Tokyo, Japan <a
href="http://openstack.jp/events/osdt2013.html"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.meetup.com/openstack-atlanta/"
target="_blank">OpenStack Developers Meetup</a> Feb 21, 2013
– Atlanta, GA <a
href="http://www.meetup.com/openstack-atlanta/"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.openstack.org/" target="_blank">OpenStack
Israel</a> May 27, 2013 – Tel-Aviv, Israel <a
href="http://www.openstack.org/" target="_blank">Coming Soon</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Other news</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2013/01/31/first-board-meeting/">Mark
McLoughlin’s notes from his First Board Meeting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://rafstack.tumblr.com/post/41937749759">OpenStack
Board of Directors Talks: Episode 6 with Tim Bell,
Infrastructure Manager at CERN</a></li>
<li>OpenStack Project Meeting: <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-01-29-21.02.html">Summary</a>
and <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-01-29-21.02.log.html">full
logs</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Welcome new contributors</h2>
<p>Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:</p>
<ul>
<li>Paul Michali, Cisco</li>
<li>Motonobu Ichimura</li>
<li>umamohan, HP</li>
<li>Roman Prykhodchenko, Mirantis</li>
</ul>
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