<div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-magicdomid1482" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze">Hey Folks!</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid1484" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid1528" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze">Welcome to the first Mistral Monthly newsletter!</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid156" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid182" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"># Intro</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid159" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid160" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze">I am going to try sending out a monthly newsletter summarising what is going on in the world of Mistral. This is an experiment, so feedback would be very welcome! If you have something you want me to share for next time, please let me know (or if I missed something this round please reply here). There is no fixed structure, but that may happen over time. I'll aim to send it on the 1st of each month.<br></span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid1481" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid1038" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid1529" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"># Releases</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid1531" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid1695" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze">There were quite a few releases in April. I expect there will be a bugfix release for Queens and Pike this month.</span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"></span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"></span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"><br><br>- Rocky</span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"></span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"><br>  - Rocky-1 Milestone </span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze gmail-url"><a href="https://docs.openstack.org/releasenotes/mistral/unreleased.html">https://docs.openstack.org/releasenotes/mistral/unreleased.html</a></span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"><br>  - mistral-lib 0.5.0 [We don't publish the release notes, we need to fix that]</span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze gmail-url"></span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"><br>  - python-mistralclient 3.4.0 </span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze gmail-url"><a href="https://docs.openstack.org/releasenotes/python-mistralclient/unreleased.html">https://docs.openstack.org/releasenotes/python-mistralclient/unreleased.html</a></span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"><br>- Queens </span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"><br>  - Mistral 6.0.2 </span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze gmail-url"><a href="https://docs.openstack.org/releasenotes/mistral/queens.html">https://docs.openstack.org/releasenotes/mistral/queens.html</a></span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"><br>- Pike</span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze gmail-url"></span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"><br>  - Mistral 5.2.3 </span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze gmail-url"><a href="https://docs.openstack.org/releasenotes/mistral/pike.html">https://docs.openstack.org/releasenotes/mistral/pike.html</a><br><br></span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid1695" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze gmail-url">Rocky-2 is due to be released by June 8th.<br></span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid1480" class="gmail-ace-line"><br><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid657" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"># Office Hours - </span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze gmail-url"><a href="https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/mistral-office-hours">https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/mistral-office-hours</a></span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid138" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid2617" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze">The Mistral office hours have been happening regularly on Mondays and Fridays now. Participation has been good and it has seen a wider and more varied attendance than the weekly Mistral meetings.</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid440" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid2700" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze">We usually chat about bugs and features that people are interested in. if there is nothing specific we take the time to do some bug triage. Please bring yourself and topics to discuss! If none of the current time slots suit you, please propose an additional one.</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid1957" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid1848" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid1876" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"># Notable changes and additions</span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"><br><br>- In Rocky we will have support for Swiftservice and Vitrage actions.</span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"><br>- Workflow executions can no longer be deleted while they are still running unless the force parameter is provided. This is a backwards incompatible change, but makes the default behaviour much safer.</span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"><br>- Support for py_mini_racer, a easier to install JavaScript implementation, was added. Users now have the choice of pyv8, v8eval or py_mini_racer.</span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"></span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid661" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid1020" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"># Milestones, Reviews, Bugs and Blueprints</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid784" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid2943" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze">(This will be more interesting in the next edition, when we can see what changes. Stackalytics is also down, so I can't grab all the stats I wanted)</span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"><br><br>- We currently have 109 open bugs</span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"><br>  - We now have zero untriaged bugs! This is largely due to the collaboration during office hours.</span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"><br>  - Two bugs are "critical"<br>  - The number of open bugs</span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"> reduced from around 180</span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"> a month ago</span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"><br>- 44 bugs are targeted towards Rocky-2 - that is ambitious to say the least. <span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze">During Rocky-1 we fixed 23 bugs</span><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"></span><br></span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid2943" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze">- 8 blueprints are targeted for Rocky-2 (3 were implemented in Rocky-1)<br></span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid2943" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"></span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid2878" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze"><br><br>That's all for this time. See you next month!</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid2880" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid2885" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze">Dougal</span></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid2482" class="gmail-ace-line"><br></div><div id="gmail-magicdomid2616" class="gmail-ace-line"><span class="gmail-author-a-z72z1veju9z90zz79zz71z5z74zz86zbz78ze">[If you get this far, please ping d0ugal on freenode and let me know. I am just curious to know roughly how many folks are reading. Thanks!]</span></div></div>