Highlights of the week
Project Incubation Process Update is Underway http://www.openstack.org/blog/2013/01/project-incubation-process-update-is-underway/
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_jMVHMl7tw9oIJnEndLK8YqEToyo/edit 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-pycharm-and-pydevd/
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@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-swift/
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-availability-zones/ * 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/OpenStackJan 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-meetupbangalore-india/
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.2013-01-22-21.02.html and full logs http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/project/2013/project.2013-01-22-21.02.log.html
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
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