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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Jan 18 – 25)
by Stefano Maffulli 25 Jan '13

25 Jan '13

Highlights of the week Project Incubation Process Update is Underway <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/01/project-incubation-process-update-is-…> Alan Clark, Chairman of the Board, wrote about the effort to improve the existing open source incubation process for OpenStack. This is one of the most important processes kickstarted by the OpenStack Foundation whose objective is to help ensure that projects receive the focus, visibility and resources needed to be successful via a fair, equitable and open process. Introducing the User Committee <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/01/introducing-the-user-committee/> Speaking of important processes, here is another one you should pay attention to: the OpenStack User Committee whose role is to represent the needs of the diverse range of OpenStack users. For those of you who would like to help define this committee, please look at the points to review <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yD8TfqUik2dt5xo_jMVHMl7tw9oIJnEndLK8YqE…> document and post your thoughts to the OpenStack foundation mailing list <http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation>. Debugging OpenStack with pycharm and pydevd <https://tropicaldevel.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/debugging-openstack-with-pyc…> The story of a conversion, that of John Bresnahan <https://tropicaldevel.wordpress.com/> from being a strictly /vi/ user, developing C code and debugging with gdb, to an avid user of pycharm. This is a story of lost productivity of a once Luddite converted to IDE and of how he got to appreciate remote debugging via pydevd. Technical Committee & Grizzly Update <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/01/technical-committee-grizzly-update/> While we wait for the final release of OpenStack Grizzly, here is a teaser of what’s coming up, with other updates from the OpenStack Technical Committee. Read it together with the Motion on Technical Committee membership for Spring 2013 session <http://markmail.org/message/cozzeh2yph6mayhp>. Let’s Get this Started! <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/01/lets-get-this-started/> And ‘this’ is the Outreach Program for Women, coordinated by GNOME, with OpenStack as one of ten participating organizations: we’ve added a few more ladies to the OpenStack contributors starting line this month. * Laura Alves da Quinta (http://ladquin.dreamwidth.org/) Buenos Aires, Argentina – working on Documentation with Anne Gentle * Anita Kuno (http://anteaya.info/) Haliburton, Ontario, Canada, working on Python Clients with Iccha Sethi * Victoria Martínez de la Cruz (http://vmartinezdelacruz.com/) Bahía Blanca, Argentina working on Horizon’s Workflows with Julie Pichon We are seeking sponsorships to bring all of them to the OpenStack Summit in Portland in April. If you are interested please contact Anne Gentle at anne.gentle(a)rackspace.com <mailto:anne.gentle@rackspace.com>. For a few thousand dollars, we can learn from them as much as they are learning from us. A great opportunity for some great interns! On-disk encryption prototype for OpenStack Swift <http://www.mirantis.com/blog/on-disk-encryption-prototype-for-openstack-swi…> A few months ago, Mirantis engineers described the design of on-disk per-user encryption <http://www.mirantis.com/blog/openstack-swift-encryption-architecture/> of objects in Swift. They released a first working prototype of this feature. It’s still very basic at the moment, but most of its components are pluggable and can be enhanced or replaced with more advanced versions. Code on Github <https://github.com/Mirantis/swift-encrypt>. Tips and tricks * By Sébastien Han <http://sebastien-han.fr/>: OpenStack Nova and availability zones <http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2013/01/24/openstack-nova-play-with-availabili…> * By Anthony Goddard <http://ops.anthonygoddard.com/>: Demystifying OpenStack Folsom quotas <http://ops.anthonygoddard.com/OpenStack/demystifying-openstack-folsom-quotas> * By Adam Young <http://adam.younglogic.com/>: A SQL upgrade script in Keystone <http://adam.younglogic.com/2013/01/sql-upgrade-keystone/> * By Julien Danjou <http://julien.danjou.info/blog/>: Extending Swift with middleware: example with ClamAV <http://julien.danjou.info/blog/2013/extending-swift-with-a-middleware-clamav> Upcoming Events * OpenStack Mini-Conf at Linux Conf Australia <https://lca2013.linux.org.au/wiki/Miniconfs/OpenStack>Jan 29, 2013 – Canberra, Australia Details <https://lca2013.linux.org.au/wiki/Miniconfs/OpenStack> * Chicago-land Open “Stackers”, Lets Meet! <http://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-NjZdcegA/events/100295502/> Jan 31, 2013 – Chicago, IL Details <http://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-NjZdcegA/events/100295502/> * OpenStack da zero <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Italia/events/99688052/> Jan 31, 2013 – Roma, Italy Details <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Italia/events/99688052/> * FOSDEM’13 <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> Feb 02 – 03, 2013 – Bruxelles, Belgium Cloud track <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> * OpenStack Mini-Conf at gnuNify <http://gnunify.in/2013/event/OpenStack_Mini_Conf> Feb 15, 2013 – Pune, India Details <http://gnunify.in/2013/event/OpenStack_Mini_Conf> * Second Swiss OpenStack User Group Meeting <http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/97648722/> Feb 19, 2013 – Zurich, Switzerland Details <http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/97648722/> * SCALE 11x <https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x/> Feb 22 – 24, 2013 – Los Angeles, CA Details <https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x/> * Pulse 2013 <https://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/pulse/agenda/index.html> Mar 03 – 06, 2013 – Las Vegas, NV Details <https://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/pulse/agenda/index.html> * OpenStack Day Tokyo 2013 <http://openstack.jp/events/osdt2013.html> Mar 12, 2013 – Tokyo, Japan Details <http://openstack.jp/events/osdt2013.html> * OpenStack Developers Meetup <http://www.meetup.com/openstack-atlanta/> Feb 21, 2013 – Atlanta, GA Details <http://www.meetup.com/openstack-atlanta/> * OpenStack Israel <http://www.openstack.org/> May 27, 2013 – Tel-Aviv, Israel Coming Soon <http://www.openstack.org/> Report from previous events * Report: January month OpenStack meetup,Bangalore, India <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/01/report-january-month-openstack-meetup…> Other news * Swift 1.7.6 and python-swiftclient 1.3.0 released <http://markmail.org/message/2sr6hjnrkgbwif2f> * Poll: “H” release cycle naming <http://markmail.org/message/hffwhskaa3zqqszv> * OpenStack Board of Directors Talks: Episode 5 with Yujie Du (Ben), Community Development Director at 99cloud <http://rafstack.tumblr.com/post/41366323988> * OpenStack Fedora news – 2013-01-23 <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenStack_status_report_2013-01-23> * Unidata demoed virtual desktops based on OpenStack <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZqhVvJfI40> * Call for testing: 2012.2.3 candidate tarballs <http://markmail.org/message/ykropvuigtykrzes> * Swift team started discussing next generation API <http://wiki.openstack.org/SwiftNextAPI> and ideas for a sprint at PyCon2013 <http://wiki.openstack.org/Sprints/PyCon2013> * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-01-22-21.…> and full logs <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-01-22-21.…> Welcome new contributors Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by: * Wenhao Xu * gtt116 * Spencer Krum, Portland State University * Mat Grove * Burt Holzman, Fermilab * Chet Burgess, Metacloud /The weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. 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[Swift] Swift 1.7.6 and python-swiftclient 1.3.0 released
by John Dickinson 25 Jan '13

25 Jan '13

I'm happy to announce that Swift 1.7.6 has been released. This release is the work of twenty five contributors. As always, you can upgrade to this release with no downtime for your clients. You can find download links at https://launchpad.net/swift and the Launchpad release tracking at https://launchpad.net/swift/+milestone/1.7.6. The full changelog for this release is at https://github.com/openstack/swift/blob/master/CHANGELOG. I'd like to highlight a few of the more prominent changes in this release. We've added a feature to the healthcheck middleware that allows you to cause an error response to be returned based on the existence of a file on disk. This allows you to turn off a proxy server and automatically remove it from your load balancer pool simply by touching a file. Since this is a file that can persist through a reboot, this new feature can also protect you from using a proxy server if an upgrade went awry. This new feature allows you to simplify your operations and more simply control how your cluster behaves. We have added some new options to swift-recon. Using swift-recon, you can now find the top full disks in your cluster and get more detailed information about replication times. Also, Swift's dispersion report tool has some new options to control what output is given. These changes give you more insight into what is happening in your cluster by filtering the results to container and object reports. This release also includes many bug fixes, including some related to object names and one to prevent the auditors from consuming too many unix sockets. I'd encourage everyone to upgrade to take advantage of the new functionality and bug fixes in this release. If you have any questions, ask on the OpenStack mailing list or hop in #openstack on IRC (freenode). I have also tagged python-swiftclient at 1.3.0 for release. Thanks again to all of the people who have contributed to this release. Swift's high quality and success are a direct result of your hard work and dedication. --John

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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Jan 11 – 18)
by Stefano Maffulli 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

Highlights of the week My first week at OpenStack <http://vmartinezdelacruz.com/my-first-week-at-openstack/> Victoria Martínez de la Cruz <http://vmartinezdelacruz.com/> is one of the three interns working on OpenStack under the Outreach Program for Women (OPW –Anne Gentle shared some details about the program before.) She will be working on Tenant Deletion Workflow <https://blueprints.launchpad.net/horizon/+spec/tenant-deletion> in the next months. This first blog post about OpenStack contains lots of good advice for any developer joining the community: a must read, for experienced developers, hiring managers and newcomers to this great community. Ceilometer Grizzly 2 Milestone Available <http://blog.doughellmann.com/2013/01/ceilometer-grizzly-2-milestone-availab…> The Ceilometer team is proud to announce the first synchronous milestone delivery with the OpenStack <http://openstack.org/> project. Grizzly-2 <https://launchpad.net/ceilometer/+milestone/grizzly-2> is also the last Folsom compatible version of Ceilometer <https://launchpad.net/ceilometer> as we are planning to introduce some breaking changes very soon in our trunk to enable a totally new set of features bringing Ceilometer beyond basic metering into monitoring and alerting. How many people does one need to build a multi-region cloud? <http://freedomhui.com/2013/01/stacklabhow-many-people-it-needs-to-build-a-m…> Hui Cheng describes in details the StackLab project. Spearheaded by Sina, Intel, Gamewave, Xi’an Jiaotong University, South China University of Technology and others, it’s a non profit platform to try and test OpenStack. Sina’s OpenStack development team was responsible for the development, operations, and go online initially. More volunteers have joined the effort and are actively being recruited to get involved to this great career, which will accelerate OpenStack popularizing in China. An Image Transfers Service For OpenStack <https://tropicaldevel.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/an-image-transfers-service-f…> John Bresnahan <https://tropicaldevel.wordpress.com/> makes the case for a new transfer service component in OpenStack. IaaS clouds must transfer VM images from the repositories in which they reside to compute nodes where they are booted. In the current state of OpenStack images download via HTTP to a nova-compute client speaking to the Glance image service. In the future proposed by John a transfers service would provide more predictable quality of service with horizontal scalability. Check his idea. Ceilomenter is looking for volunteers to take on unassigned blueprints <http://lists.openstack/> The team is about to start implementing the blueprints for the g3 milestone, there are few blueprints which still don’t have anyone assigned to them. If you are looking for something useful to code, head over to see the list of things that you could be working on. Remember that contributions during the Grizzly lifecycle will get you a free ticket to the OpenStack Summit. Tips and tricks * By Patrick McGarry <http://ceph.com/author/scuttlemonkey/>: Building a Public AMI with Ceph and OpenStack <http://ceph.com/howto/building-a-public-ami-with-ceph-and-openstack/> * By Davide Guerry: Using JuJu on OpenStack-based UniCloud <http://youtu.be/K5-iJ37q23k> * By John Bresnaha <https://tropicaldevel.wordpress.com/>: How to configure OpenStack Glance And Nova Backed By Red Hat Storage <https://tropicaldevel.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/openstack-glance-and-nova-ba…> * By Loïc Dachary <http://dachary.org/>: Installing OpenStack Folsom on Debian GNU/Linux wheezy <http://dachary.org/?p=1791> * By Robert Collins <http://rbtcollins.wordpress.com/>: Multi-machine parallel testing of nova with testrepository <http://rbtcollins.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/multi-machine-parallel-testing-o…> * By Kyle Mestery <http://www.siliconloons.com/>: Multi-node OpenStack Folsom devstack <http://www.siliconloons.com/?p=395> Upcoming Events * OpenStack Users January 2013 meetup <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/93144352/> Jan 19, 2013 – Bangalore, India Details <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/93144352/> * Openstack Developers Meetup <http://wiki.openstack.org/DeveloperMeetupRaanana> Jan 20, 2013 – Raanana, Israel Details <http://wiki.openstack.org/DeveloperMeetupRaanana> * Chef for OpenStack Hack Day <http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4395344594> Jan 22, 2013 – Boston, MA Details <http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4395344594> * oVirt Workshop <http://www.ovirt.org/NetApp_Workshop_January_2013> Jan 22 – 24, 2013 – Sunnyvale, CA Details <http://www.ovirt.org/NetApp_Workshop_January_2013> * OpenStack Mini-Conf at Linux Conf Australia <https://lca2013.linux.org.au/wiki/Miniconfs/OpenStack>Jan 29, 2013 – Canberra, Australia Details <https://lca2013.linux.org.au/wiki/Miniconfs/OpenStack> * OpenStack da zero <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Italia/events/99688052/> Jan 31, 2013 – Roma, Italy Details <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-User-Group-Italia/events/99688052/> * FOSDEM’13 <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> Feb 02 – 03, 2013 – Bruxelles, Belgium Cloud track <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> * OpenStack Mini-Conf at gnuNify <http://gnunify.in/2013/event/OpenStack_Mini_Conf> Feb 15, 2013 – Pune, India Details <http://gnunify.in/2013/event/OpenStack_Mini_Conf> * Second Swiss OpenStack User Group Meeting <http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/97648722/> Feb 19, 2013 – Zurich, Switzerland Details <http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/97648722/> * OpenStack Developers Meetup <http://www.meetup.com/openstack-atlanta/> Feb 21, 2013 – Atlanta, GA Details <http://www.meetup.com/openstack-atlanta/> * OpenStack Israel <http://www.openstack.org/> May 27, 2013 – Tel-Aviv, Israel Coming Soon <http://www.openstack.org/> Report from previous events * Summary and Review of the 2012 Openstack China Tour <http://freedomhui.com/2013/01/summary-and-review-of-the-2012-openstack-chin…> Other news * A new OpenStack Map: see where the OpenStack User Groups <http://openstack.org/community/> are around the world * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-01-15-21.…> and full logs <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-01-15-21.…> Welcome new contributors Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by: * Toan Nguyen, Rackspace * Hans Lindgren, KTH * Flavio Percoco, Redhat * Michael J Fork, IBM * Sean Chen * Changbin Liu * Dan Florea, Cisco * Tony NIU * François Rossigneux, INRIA * Eric Peterson, HP * Sunil Thaha, Redhat /The weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. 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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Jan 4 – 11)
by Stefano Maffulli 11 Jan '13

11 Jan '13

Highlights of the week Save the Date – OpenStack Summit Spring 2013 <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/01/save-the-date-openstack-summit-spring…> *It’s official – the Spring 2013 OpenStack Summit <https://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/> will be held in Portland, April 15-18, at the Oregon Convention Center. * If you’d like to submit a presentation, panel or workshop, the *call for speakers <http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/call-for-speakers>is now open* and will close February 15. OpenStack at FOSDEM ’13 <http://fnords.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/openstack-at-fosdem-13/> In 3 weeks, free and open source software developers will converge to Brussels for 2+ days of talks, discussions and beer. FOSDEM <https://fosdem.org/2013/> is still the largest gathering for our community in Europe, and it will be a pleasure to meet again with longtime friends. Note that FOSDEM attendance is free as in beer, and requires no registration. OpenStack will be present with a number of talks in the Cloud devroom <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> in the /Chavanne/ auditorium on Sunday, February 3^rd . OpenStack at linux.conf.au 2013 <http://www.stillhq.com/openstack/000011.html> On the other side of the world, OpenStack is a protagonist at linux.conf.au 2013 <http://lca2013.linux.org.au/> in Australia. Michael Still, Director of LinuxConf Australia, highlights in his blog post the not-to-be-missed talks about OpenStack and the closely-related ones. Spoiler alert: I counted 28 (twentyeight) talks, from Monday to Friday! OpenStack Board of Directors Talks: Episode 4 with Jim Curry, GM Private Cloud at Rackspace <http://rafstack.tumblr.com/post/40186173585> Jim Curry talks about OpenStack accomplishments, areas worth focusing on for improving, the importance of the ecosystem and more. As OpenStack Elections near, these interviews of current members of OpenStack Foundation’s Board by Rafael Knuth are nice to read. Http <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2013-January/001301.html>OpenStack Foundation 2012 End-of-Year UpdateJanuary/001301.html <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2013-January/001301.html> Alan Clark, Board Chair, and Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director, sent a summary of 2012 accomplishments and the budget for 2012-2013. Introducing the Hyper-V Quantum plugin <http://markmail.org/message/6jmhkinft5znkdsz> Lots of good progress to bring OpenStack to Hyper-V and Windows. After the Nova Hyper-V driver, Cinder Windows Storage driver and Cloud-Init for Windows guests Cloudbase Solutions just released a Quantum plugin for Hyper-V 2008 R2 and 2012. Tips and tricks * By Zmanda <http://www.zmanda.com/blogs>: Backward Compatible Keystone-based OpenStack Swift <http://www.zmanda.com/blogs/?p=1002> * By Sébastien Han <http://sebastien-han.fr/>: Some tips for smooth maintenance in OpenStack <http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2013/01/09/openstack-maintenance-mode/> Upcoming Events * OpenStack Users January 2013 meetup <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/93144352/> Jan 19, 2013 – Bangalore, India Details <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/93144352/> * Openstack Developers Meetup <http://wiki.openstack.org/DeveloperMeetupRaanana> Jan 20, 2013 – Raanana, Israel Details <http://wiki.openstack.org/DeveloperMeetupRaanana> * Chef for OpenStack Hack Day <http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4395344594> Jan 22, 2013 – Boston, MA Details <http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4395344594> * oVirt Workshop <http://www.ovirt.org/NetApp_Workshop_January_2013> Jan 22 – 24, 2013 – Sunnyvale, CA Details <http://www.ovirt.org/NetApp_Workshop_January_2013> * OpenStack Mini-Conf at Linux Conf Australia <https://lca2013.linux.org.au/wiki/Miniconfs/OpenStack>Jan 29, 2013 – Canberra, Australia Details <https://lca2013.linux.org.au/wiki/Miniconfs/OpenStack> * FOSDEM’13 <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> Feb 02 – 03, 2013 – Bruxelles, Belgium Cloud track <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> * OpenStack Mini-Conf at gnuNify <http://gnunify.in/2013/event/OpenStack_Mini_Conf> Feb 15, 2013 – Pune, India Details <http://gnunify.in/2013/event/OpenStack_Mini_Conf> * Second Swiss OpenStack User Group Meeting <http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/97648722/> Feb 19, 2013 – Zurich, Switzerland Details <http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/97648722/> * OpenStack Israel <http://www.openstack.org/> May 27, 2013 – Tel-Aviv, Israel Coming Soon <http://www.openstack.org/> Report from previous events * Vietnam OpenStack Community 2nd Meeting <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/01/vietnam-openstack-community-2nd-meeti…> Other news * *Grizzly-2* development milestone available (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Horizon, Quantum, Cinder) <http://markmail.org/message/ihmassje6qj3ekly> * Four Weeks, Four Webinars: Dive Deeply into Cloud Storage with Ceph and OpenStack <http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/b/techcenter/archive/2013/01/09/fou…> * OpenStack Ruby (and RoR) bindings implemented on top of ActiveResource <https://github.com/Unidata-SpA/openstack_activeresource> * Discussion about Developing with Scala/Java on OpenStack Swift <http://markmail.org/message/sdt7n7wkvjzki6ue> * New regular meeting for Swift <http://markmail.org/message/fg2qbes5ch4jrn5u> * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-01-08-21.…> and full logs <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-01-08-21.…> * OpenStack Technical Committee report: Distro & Python 2.6/3.x support policy and Update on the “Future of Incubation / core” joint committee**Summary <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/tc/2013/tc.2013-01-08-20.02.html> and full logs <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/tc/2013/tc.2013-01-08-20.02.log.html> Welcome new contributors Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by: * Yuyue Hill * Kurt Taylor, IBM * Flaper Fesp /The weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. 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Grizzly-2 development milestone available (Keystone, Glance, Nova, Horizon, Quantum, Cinder)
by Thierry Carrez 11 Jan '13

11 Jan '13

Hi everyone, The second milestone of the Grizzly development cycle, "grizzly-2" is now available. It's a significant step toward the final delivery of OpenStack 2013.1 (codenamed "Grizzly"), scheduled for April 4, 2013. You can find the full list of new features and fixed bugs, as well as tarball downloads, at: https://launchpad.net/keystone/grizzly/grizzly-2 https://launchpad.net/glance/grizzly/grizzly-2 https://launchpad.net/nova/grizzly/grizzly-2 https://launchpad.net/horizon/grizzly/grizzly-2 https://launchpad.net/quantum/grizzly/grizzly-2 https://launchpad.net/cinder/grizzly/grizzly-2 Features may be added until the next milestone, grizzly-3, which will be delivered on February 21st. Let's all make it awesome ! Regards, -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) Release Manager, OpenStack

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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Dec 28 – Jan 4)
by Stefano Maffulli 04 Jan '13

04 Jan '13

Highlights of the week Save the Date – OpenStack Summit Spring 2013 <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/01/save-the-date-openstack-summit-spring…> *It’s official – the Spring 2013 OpenStack Summit <https://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/> will be held in Portland, April 15-18, at the Oregon Convention Center. * We’re expecting 2000 OpenStack users, prospective users, ecosystem members and developers to attend the Spring Summit. As usual, we’ll have a variety of content and tracks, ranging from compelling user stories and technical deep dives to the business case for OpenStack and hands-on workshops. If you’d like to submit a presentation, panel or workshop, the *call for speakers <http://www.openstack.org/summit/portland-2013/call-for-speakers>is now open* and will close February 15. The call for sponsorships will open January 14*. *Event registration and discount hotel rates will be available the week of January 14, so stay tuned and check back for updates <https://www.openstack.org/summit/>. OpenStack Board of Directors Talks: Episode 3 with Randy Bias, Co-Founder & CTO at Cloudscaling <http://rafstack.tumblr.com/post/39582996936> Rafael Knuth chats with Randy Bias about Cloudscaling, OpenStack, cloud technology, API compatibility, enterprise adoption of cloud technologies, Dell and more. Tips and tricks * By Hui Cheng <http://freedomhui.com/>: How To Build A Small Hadoop Cluser In Openstack Using Hadoop1.0 Image <http://freedomhui.com/2012/12/how-to-build-a-small-hadoop-cluser-in-opensta…> * By Thierry Carrez: development environment for Ubuntu-based release of OpenStack <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-January/004205.html> Upcoming Events * Minnesota OpenStack: Part 2 <http://www.meetup.com/Minnesota-OpenStack-Meetup/events/94227732/> Jan 07, 2013 – Minneapolis, MN Details <http://www.meetup.com/Minnesota-OpenStack-Meetup/events/94227732/> * OpenStack DACH Meetup <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-DACH/events/96141772/> Jan 09, 2013 – Cologne (Köln), Germany Details <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-DACH/events/96141772/> * OpenStack Denver Meetup <http://blog.scottlowe.org/2013/01/03/inaugural-openstack-denver-meetup/> Jan 09, 2013 – Denver, CO Details <http://blog.scottlowe.org/2013/01/03/inaugural-openstack-denver-meetup/> * OpenStack Users January 2013 meetup <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/93144352/> Jan 19, 2013 – Bangalore, India Details <http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/93144352/> * Openstack Developers Meetup <http://wiki.openstack.org/DeveloperMeetupRaanana> Jan 20, 2013 – Jerusalem, Israel Details <http://wiki.openstack.org/DeveloperMeetupRaanana> * FOSDEM’13 <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> Feb 02 – 03, 2013 – Bruxelles, Belgium Cloud track <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> * Second Swiss OpenStack User Group Meeting <http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/97648722/> Feb 19, 2013 – Zurich, Switzerland Details <http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/97648722/> Other news * Details about OpenStack at linux.conf.au 2013 <http://www.stillhq.com/openstack/000011.html> * Grizzly-2 just around the corner <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-January/004206.html> * OpenStack Project Meeting didn’t happen this week Welcome new contributors Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by: * Janis Gengeris /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 a comment./

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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Dec 21-28)
by Stefano Maffulli 29 Dec '12

29 Dec '12

Highlights of the week Ceilometer bug squash day #1 <http://julien.danjou.info/blog/2012/ceilometer-bug-squash-day-1> What better way to start the new year? The Ceilometer team is pleased to announce <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2012-December/004161.html> that it organizes a bug squashing day on the Friday 4th January 2013 <http://wiki.openstack.org/Ceilometer/BugSquashingDay/20130104>. You can get started by reading how to contribute to Ceilometer <http://wiki.openstack.org/Ceilometer/Contributing>, from updating the documentation, to fixing bugs. There's a lot you can do. Good support for Ceilometer is built into Devstack <http://devstack.org/>, so installing a development platform is really easy. Thinking about the mission of the user committeee <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2012-December/001292.html> Narayan Desai started a discussion about the mission of OpenStack Foundation's most important governing body: the User Committee. Any member of the OpenStack Foundation is welcome to chime in and help define the User Committee. Resources for translators of documentation <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-docs/2012-December/000618.ht…> A thread on the OpenStack Documentation mailing list lead to a summary post on how to get started translating OpenStack Manuals. Tips and tricks * By Everett Toews <http://blog.phymata.com/>: Contributing OpenStack Support to jclouds <http://blog.phymata.com/2012/10/03/contributing-openstack-support-to-jcloud…> * By Everett Toews <http://blog.phymata.com/>: jclouds and OpenStack <http://blog.phymata.com/2012/09/04/jclouds-and-openstack/> * By Michael Still <http://www.stillhq.com/>: Image handlers (in essex) <http://www.stillhq.com/openstack/000010.html> Upcoming Events * Minnesota OpenStack: Part 2 <http://www.meetup.com/Minnesota-OpenStack-Meetup/events/94227732/> Jan 07, 2013 -- Minneapolis, MN Details <http://www.meetup.com/Minnesota-OpenStack-Meetup/events/94227732/> * OpenStack DACH Meetup <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-DACH/events/96141772/> Jan 09, 2013 -- Cologne (Köln), Germany Details <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-DACH/events/96141772/> * FOSDEM'13 <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> Feb 02 -- 03, 2013 -- Bruxelles, Belgium Cloud track <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> Other news * Questions and Answers: Storage as a Service with OpenStack Cloud <http://www.mirantis.com/blog/questions-and-answers-about-storage-as-a-servi…> * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-12-18-21.…> and full logs <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-12-18-21.…> Welcome new contributors Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by: * John Bresnahan, Red Hat * Xing Yang, EMC Bonus Video http://youtu.be/mbcC8Frb_Hc <http://youtu.be/mbcC8Frb_Hc> /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 a comment./

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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Dec 14-21)
by Stefano Maffulli 21 Dec '12

21 Dec '12

Highlights of the week -- Holiday edition Happy holidays from the whole team at the OpenStack Foundation. We wish you a merry time to spend with your beloved ones. DevStack on openSUSE, or how to quickly setup OpenStack on openSUSE <http://www.vuntz.net/journal/post/2012/12/21/DevStack-on-openSUSE%2C-or-how…> DevStack is a set of shell scripts to build complete OpenStack development environments. It is useful to create a small OpenStack environment that will be used for hacking, testing, etc. and is therefore primarily used for upstream development. Vincent Untz got DevStack to work on openSUSE. Ten Useful Openstack Swift Features <http://www.17od.com/2012/12/19/ten-useful-openstack-swift-features/> Adrian Smith goes through some of the new features introduced in Swift 1.7.5 and their implication. If you want to learn about CORS support <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/misc.html#cors-headers>, Etag, Object versioning and other nice features read his post. Introducing OpenStack Packstack <http://goodsquishy.com/2012/12/introducing-openstack-packstack/> Derek Higgins developed a tool that is capable of installing OpenStack in a distributed environment using some of the most common configurations. Packstack can be used to transform Fedora 17/18, RHEL 6 or CentOS 6 servers into a functional Openstack Folsom deployment. The tool ssh's onto each server and apply's puppet manifests to set openstack up. On his blog post Derek outlines how to use his Packstack on Fedora 17. A look at individual membership in the OpenStack Foundation <http://www.mirantis.com/blog/a-look-at-individual-membership-in-the-opensta…> It's no secret that I like numbers and charts. If you like them too, then David Fishman's post is a must read for the holidays. Davide took a snapshot of the membership of the OpenStack Foundation using the publicly available data. Who are these people and what are their affiliations? What if anything does it say about the use and uptake of OpenStack cloud? What doesn't it say? And, like any data, what other useful questions does it raise? Remember that the OpenStack Foundation elections are coming <http://www.openstack.org/election/2013-board-election/> and the holidays may be a good time to get to know the candidates <http://www.openstack.org/election/2013-board-election/CandidateList> for the Board of Directors. An <http://martin-paulo.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/earlier-this-month-i-gave-talk-…>Introduction To OpenStack <http://martin-paulo.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/earlier-this-month-i-gave-talk-…> Martin Paulo introduced OpenStack to a new group of people. He collected and published his notes: I believe his work can be very useful for other OpenStack speakers. Tips and tricks * By Sébastien Han <http://sebastien-han.fr/>:Where does my instance run? <http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/12/20/where-does-my-instance-run/> * By Christian Berendt <http://www.cberendt.de/>: Allocation of multiple VLAN ranges on one physical network <http://www.cberendt.de/2012/12/allocation-of-multiple-vlan-ranges-on-one-ph…> * By Michael Still <http://www.stillhq.com/>: Some quick operational notes for users of loop and nbd devices <http://www.stillhq.com/openstack/000009.html> Upcoming Events * OpenStack China Tour: Wuhan <http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?mid=157> Dec 22, 2012 -- Wuhan, China Details <http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?mid=157> * Minnesota OpenStack: Part 2 <http://www.meetup.com/Minnesota-OpenStack-Meetup/events/94227732/> Jan 07, 2013 -- Minneapolis, MN Details <http://www.meetup.com/Minnesota-OpenStack-Meetup/events/94227732/> * FOSDEM'13 <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> Feb 02 -- 03, 2013 -- Bruxelles, Belgium Cloud track <https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/> Other news * The new OpenStack Marketing team has its own wiki page http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/Marketing with good details * Horizon Hyper-V RDP console access <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2012-December/004008.html> * Report from past events: o Event Report: OpenStack Day, Bangalore, India <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/12/event-report-openstack-day-bangalore-…> * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-12-11-21.…> and full logs <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-12-11-21.…> Welcome new contributors Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by: * Harika Vakadi, Persistent * Ben Andrews * Walter A. Boring IV, HP * Therese McHale, HP Bonus Video Overview of OpenStack and the OpenStack Foundation by Mark Collier: http://youtu.be/dclcFiVvO7g /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 a comment./

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OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Nov 30 – Dic 14)
by Stefano Maffulli 15 Dec '12

15 Dec '12

Highlights of the weeks What people talk about when they talk about OpenStack Cloud <http://www.mirantis.com/blog/what-people-talk-about-when-they-talk-about-op…> There’s enough going on in the OpenStack <http://www.mirantis.com/openstack-services/> ecosystem that you can pretty much find a comfortable niche drilling down on anything from hypervisor compatibility to driver support to who’s in the foundation. Mirantis’ David M. Fishman takes a step back and highlights recent conversations about OpenStack. *Welcome New Outreach Program for Women Interns <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/12/welcome-new-outreach-program-for-wome…>* With a flurry of applications, we had a difficult decision in front of us, deciding who would be our newest mentored contributors through the GNOME Outreach Program for Women <https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen>. All the applicants were enthusiastic and personable, knowledgeable and technical. We’re pleased to announce that the decisions have been made and these three are going to work on OpenStack full-time from January to March. Please welcome Laura, Anita and Victoria to the OpenStack community. *Making sense of SDN with–and without–HW-based networking in OpenStack Cloud <http://www.mirantis.com/blog/making-sense-of-sdn-with-and-without-hw-based-…>* There’s a tremendous amount of talk about the shift in the networking business from hardware-bound networking to Software Defined Network. Mirantis’ Greg Elkinbard gives an overview of SDN in OpenStack world. *OpenStack Board of Directors Talks: Episode 1 with Rob Hirschfeld, Principal Cloud Architect at Dell <http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/b/techcenter/archive/2012/12/06/ope…>* Learn firsthand about OpenStack, its challenges and opportunities, market adoption and Dell’s engagement in the community. Rafael Knuth’s goal is to interview all 24 members of the OpenStack board, and will post these talks sequentially at Dell TechCenter. Security Advisories * CVE-2012-5625 : Information leak in libvirt LVM-backed instances <http://secstack.org/2012/12/cve-2012-5625-information-leak-in-libvirt-lvm-b…> Tips and tricks * By Adam Young <http://adam.younglogic.com/>: Reviewing Code <http://adam.younglogic.com/2012/12/reviewing-code/> * By Adam Young <http://adam.younglogic.com/>: Keystone and Eclipse PyDev <http://adam.younglogic.com/2012/12/keystone-and-eclipse-pydev/> * By Adam Young <http://adam.younglogic.com/>: What changed in that latest patch? <http://adam.younglogic.com/2012/12/what-changed/> * By Sébastien Han <http://sebastien-han.fr/>: Cleanup keystone tokens <http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/12/12/cleanup-keystone-tokens/> * By Alessandro Pilotti <http://www.cloudbase.it/>: Cinder-Volume on Windows Storage Server 2012 <http://www.cloudbase.it/cinder-volume-on-windows-storage-server-2012/> * By Hui Cheng <http://freedomhui.com/>: How To Use Hadoop Image In Openstack Cloud <http://freedomhui.com/2012/12/how-to-use-hadoop-image-in-openstack-based-sy…> * By Sébastien Han <http://sebastien-han.fr/>: OpenStack: perform consistent snapshots <http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/12/10/openstack-perform-consistent-snapsh…> * By Sébastien Han <http://sebastien-han.fr/>: Openstack and rsyslog <http://sebastien-han.fr/blog/2012/12/05/openstack-and-rsyslog/> * By Alessandro Pilotti <http://www.cloudbase.it/>: Cloud-Init for Windows instances <http://www.cloudbase.it/cloud-init-for-windows-instances/> * By Mirantis <http://www.mirantis.com/>: Using an orchestrator to improve Puppet-driven deployment of OpenStack <http://www.mirantis.com/blog/orchestrator-puppet-driven-deployment-openstac…> Upcoming Events * India OpenStack Day <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/12/announcing-openstack-day-15-december-…> Dec 15, 2012 – Bangalore, India Details <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/12/announcing-openstack-day-15-december-…> * OpenStack China Tour: Wuhan <http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?mid=157> Dec 22, 2012 – Wuhan, China Details <http://hui.csdn.net/MeetingInfo.aspx?mid=157> Other news * My (Very) Minor Contribution to OpenStack Bug Squashing Day <http://blog.phymata.com/2012/12/13/my-very-minor-contribution-to-openstack-…> * *Image Building Service Demo <http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2012/12/12/image-building-service-demo/>* * *RabbitMQ in Nova [2] <http://freedomhui.com/2012/12/rabbitmq-in-nova-2-2/>* * *Altai v1.0.2 is out <http://openstackgd.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/altai-v1-0-2-is-out/> and What’s New in Altai 1.0.2 from Maintainer’s Point of View <http://openstackgd.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/whats-new-in-altai-1-0-2-from-m…>* * *Welcome Claire and Jim <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2012-December/001285.html>* * *OpenStack Nova 2012.2.2 released <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2012-December/00006…>* * Report from past events: o OpenStack in action 3! The Open Revolution / Paris, November 29th, 2012 <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/12/openstack-in-action-3-the-open-revolu…> o 1st Swiss OpenStack User Group <http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/12/1st-swiss-openstack-user-group/> o 1^st Minnesota Meeting: OpenStack, Community, and You <http://www.siliconloons.com/?p=367> o 37th Open Technet Korea Dope’n'stack cloud antehm <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifjSyy2l22Y> * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-12-11-21.…> and full logs <http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2012/project.2012-12-11-21.…> Welcome new contributors Celebrating the first patches submitted this week by: * Pavel Kravchenko and Alexey Roytman, IBM * Boris Pavlovic * Cian O’Driscoll, HP * Mana Kaneko * Andrew Glen-Young, Canonical * zhoudongshu * Yufang Zhang * Qiang Guan, Netease * Rohan Rhishikesh Kanade, NTT Data /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 a comment./

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[ANNOUNCE] OpenStack Nova 2012.2.2 released
by Mark McLoughlin 14 Dec '12

14 Dec '12

Hey, In the time since the Folsom release, we have been busy selectively back-porting bugfixes to the stable/folsom branch according to our "safe source of high-impact fixes" criteria documented here: http://wiki.openstack.org/StableBranch We're now announcing the 2012.2.2 release of Nova, a snap release containing a security fix and a fix for a serious regression in 2012.2.1. This release is a bugfix update to Folsom and is intended to be relatively risk free with no intentional regressions or API changes. The list of bugs fixed can be seen here: https://launchpad.net/nova/folsom/2012.2.2 Please read (and add to!) the release notes at: http://wiki.openstack.org/ReleaseNotes/2012.2.2 Enjoy! Mark.

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