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<h2>Highlights of the week</h2>
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<h3><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/06/openstack-events-at-oscon-discounted-passes/">OpenStack
Events at OSCON & Discounted Passes</a></h3>
<p>We have quite a few activities planned for OSCON to
celebrate OpenStack’s second birthday. Kicking off with
the first <a
href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2012/public/content/open-stack">OpenStack
Day</a>, Tuesday July 17, there will be lots of
OpenStack speakers, events and community members in
attendance. Full details on the blog.</p>
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<h3><a
href="http://berrange.com/posts/2012/06/27/thoughts-on-improving-openstack-git-commit-practicehistory/">Thoughts
on improving OpenStack GIT commit practice/history</a></h3>
<p><a href="http://berrange.com/">Daniel P. Berrangé</a>
started a discussion about git commit practice based on
his personal experience over the past few months getting
involved with OpenStack Nova through learning the
codebase, examining its history, writing code and
participating in reviews. There is a discussion about it
also on the <a
href="https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg13742.html">OpenStack
developer list</a>.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=812">Sumo nodes
for OpenStack Swift: Mixing storage and proxy services
for better performance and lower TCO</a></h3>
<p>Zmanda present a novel way to build storage clouds with
higher throughput bandwidth but with lower initial
hardware purchase cost and lower ongoing IT-related costs
by using nodes in a Swift cloud which mix storage and
proxy services.</p>
<h3><a href="http://markmail.org/message/zouvoxu7dmo5bduw">How
to improve our bug triaging?</a></h3>
<p>Thierry Carrez started an important conversation. At the
beginning of the month we had a BugTriage day that allowed
us to make the Nova bug database much more relevant and
triage a lot of incoming new bugs. However, since then,
the numbers went up again. How would you resolve this
issue?</p>
<h3><a href="http://markmail.org/message/gygnjvdy3njwfrtg">A
collection of utilities for cleaning up the database</a></h3>
<p>Lars Kellogg-Stedman released a small collection of tools
to clear things out of the Nova database that constantly
fills with garbage while testing and developing. <a
href="http://openstack.markmail.org/thread/gygnjvdy3njwfrtg">More.</a></p>
<h3><a href="http://markmail.org/message/6br5qtic644utqcg">Improving
git Commit Messages</a></h3>
<p>Brian Waldon wrote a short guide in Nova’s HACKING.rst on
how to write useful commit messages.</p>
<h3><a href="http://markmail.org/message/pmwaixxmiyvdw3lk">Setuptools-git</a></h3>
<p>The OpenStack Infra team wrote a setuptools plugin which
adds git vcs support to setuptools</p>
<h3><a href="http://markmail.org/message/iowxhm2ey7pfsdod"><strong>Heat</strong>
Version 4 Released</a></h3>
<p>The Heat developers are pleased to announce the release
of the Heat API version 4. We have added many new features
including Ubuntu Precise host support. Heat is a project
designed to work with OpenStack that provides a
programmable interface to orchestrate multiple cloud
applications implementing CloudFormation. <a
href="http://openstack.markmail.org/thread/iowxhm2ey7pfsdod">More.</a></p>
<h3><a href="http://markmail.org/message/rezv6qk3ygkz3rq4">Recent
updates of DevStack</a></h3>
<p>Dean Troyer sent a quick summary of recent significant
DevStack changes.</p>
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<h2>Upcoming Events</h2>
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<li><a
href="http://www.openstack.org/assets/oscon-pavilion-prospectus-2012.pdf"
target="_blank">OSCON</a> Jul 16 – 20, 2012 –
Portland, OR <a
href="http://www.openstack.org/assets/oscon-pavilion-prospectus-2012.pdf"
target="_blank">Sponsor</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wiki.openstack.org/FISL13"
target="_blank">13th International Free Software Forum
– OpenStack Track</a> Jul 25 – 28, 2012 – Porto
Alegre, Brazil <a
href="http://wiki.openstack.org/FISL13"
target="_blank">Coordination</a></li>
<li><a href="http://openstack.csdn.net/index.html"
target="_blank">2012 OpenStack APEC Conference</a> Aug
10 – 11, 2012 – Bejing+Shanghai, China <a
href="http://openstack.csdn.net/index.html"
target="_blank">Details</a></li>
<li><a href="http://markmail.org/message/cbmtzazcefh6d6bw">Call
for proposals for linux.conf.au 2013</a></li>
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<h2>Other news</h2>
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<li>OpenStack Project 2012-06-26 <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-06-26-21.02.html">meeting
summary</a> and <a
href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-06-26-21.02.log.html">full
log</a></li>
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<h2>Welcome new contributors</h2>
<p>Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by:</p>
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<li>ncode aka Juliano Martinez</li>
<li>David Scannell, Gridcentric</li>
<li>Sean M. Collins</li>
<li>Iryoung Jeong</li>
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<td><em>The weekly newsletter is a way for the community to
learn about all the various activities occurring on a
weekly basis. If you would like to add content to a weekly
update or have an idea about this newsletter, please leave
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