Spinning up OpenStack “DefCore” Committee by spotting elephants http://robhirschfeld.com/2013/11/22/defcore/
This week, Joshua McKenty http://insights.wired.com/profile/JoshuaMcKenty, Rob Hirschfeld http://robhirschfeld.com/ and a handful of interested individuals (board member Eileen Evans included) met to start organizing the DefCore* Committee https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/DefCoreCommittee. This standing committee was established by an OpenStack Foundation resolution http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2013-October/001568.html just before the Hong Kong Summit. This action was an immediate result of the unanimous passage of the 10 Principles that http://robhirschfeld.com/2013/08/13/openstack-core-positions/Rob was driving http://robhirschfeld.com/2013/08/13/openstack-core-positions/ in the DefCore “Spider http://robhirschfeld.com/2013/07/23/introducing-the-openstack-spider-graph-untangling-our-web-of-interdependencies/” cycle. Read the summary of the outcomes of the first meeting.
How to get new questions on Ask OpenStack via email http://maffulli.net/2013/11/20/how-to-get-new-questions-on-ask-openstack-via-email/
Email is still one of the best mechanism to get push notifications, so getting automatic nudges via email from Ask OpenStack is useful. I took some time to document how to get an email message every time a new question is asked on Ask OpenStack https://ask.openstack.org/.
Who Wrote OpenStack Havana Docs? http://justwriteclick.com/2013/11/18/who-wrote-openstack-havana-docs/
Indulging with our own Anne Gentl in the glorious beauty of numbers and metrics, following up on a similar post about previous release, Who Wrote OpenStack Grizzly Doc http://justwriteclick.com/2013/04/26/who-wrote-openstack-grizzly-docs/s? At the time Grizzly had 79 docs contributors overall, with 3 of them writing half of the changes for Grizzly. This time the team grew to 130 docs contributors with 7 of them writing just over half the changes in overarching install/config/deploy/operations guides. Progress! We also had at least three supporting companies hire writers dedicated to OpenStack upstream docs.
Tips ‘n Tricks
* By Mirantis http://www.mirantis.com/: Identifying and Troubleshooting Neutron Namespaces http://www.mirantis.com/blog/identifying-and-troubleshooting-neutron-namespaces/ and Edge of the Stack: Find Memleaks Without Process Restarts http://www.mirantis.com/blog/edge-of-the-stack-find-memleaks-without-process-restarts/ * By HP Public Cloud http://www.hpcloud.com/blog/categories/1246: OpenStack HP 3PAR StoreServ Block Storage Drivers Configuration Best Practices http://www.hpcloud.com/blog/openstack-hp-3par-storeserv-block-storage-drivers-configuration-best-practices * By Kenneth Hui http://cloudarchitectmusings.com/: Laying Cinder Block (Volumes) In OpenStack, Part 1: The Basics http://cloudarchitectmusings.com/2013/11/18/laying-cinder-block-volumes-in-openstack-part-1-the-basics/ and Laying Cinder Block (Volumes) In OpenStack, Part 2: Integration With vSphere http://cloudarchitectmusings.com/2013/11/19/laying-cinder-block-volumes-in-openstack-part-2-integration-with-vsphere/ * By Loïc Dachary http://dachary.org/: Mixing Ceph and LVM volumes in OpenStack http://dachary.org/?p=2518
Upcoming Events
* OpenStack Pune Meetup http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/135676552/ Nov 23, 2013 – Pune, India Details http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/135676552/ * OpenStack in action 4 https://openstackinaction4.eventbrite.com/ Dec 05, 2013 – Paris, France Details https://openstackinaction4.eventbrite.com/ * Swiss and Rhone-Alpes OpenStack user group meeting https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=273593 Dec 06, 2013 – CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland Details https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=273593 * Gartner Data Center Conference http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/na/data-center/ Dec 09 – 12, 2013 – Las Vegas, NV, USA Details http://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/na/data-center/ * OpenStack Israel http://www.openstack-israel.org/ Dec 09, 2013 – Tel-Aviv, Israel Details http://www.openstack-israel.org/
Other News
* Horizon PTL election result: Congratulations to David Lyle (Official results) http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/%7Eandru/cgi-perl/civs/results.pl?id=E_cd16dd051e519ef2 * [Nova] Icehouse roadmap status http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-November/019786.html * Swift Goals for Icehouse http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-November/019919.html * How to best make User Experience a priority in every project http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-November/019884.html * Feeding results from user survey into the products http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/user-committee/2013-November/000192.html * Unified CLI now available for testing in RDO http://openstack.redhat.com/forum/discussion/934/unified-cli-now-available-for-testing-in-rdo * Open Mic Spotlight: Sean Chen http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/11/open-mic-spotlight-sean-chen/ * OpenStack and Platforms as a Service http://www.zerobanana.com/archive/2013/11/19#openstack-and-paas * Wrap-up post OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong http://maffulli.net/2013/11/18/wrap-up-post-openstack-summit-in-hong-kong/ * Let’s Encourage Innovation: Thoughts From OpenStack Summit Hong Kong http://www.rackspace.com/blog/lets-encourage-innovation-thoughts-from-openstack-summit-hong-kong/ * OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-11-19-21.04.html and full logs http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-11-19-21.04.log.html
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Latest Activity In Projects
Do you want to see at a glance the bugs filed and solved this week? Latest patches submitted for review? Check out the individual project pages on OpenStack Activity Board – Insights http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/.
* Metering (Ceilometer) http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/ceilometer * Block Storage (Cinder) http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/cinder * Image Service (Glance) http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/glance * Orchestration API http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/heat (Heat) http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/heat * Dashboard (Horizon) http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/horizon * Bare Metal Provisioning (Ironic) http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/ironic * Identity (Keystone) http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/keystone * Manuals http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/openstack-manuals * Networking (Neutron) http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/neutron * Compute (Nova) http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/nova * Hadoop Cluster as a Service (Savanna) http://stackalytics.com/?release=icehouse&metric=commits&project_type=openstack&module=savanna-group&company=&user_id= * Database As A Service (Trove) http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/trove
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