Latest Technical Committee Updates
The OpenStack Technical Committee meets weekly to work through requests for incubation, to review technical issues happening in currently integrated projects, and to represent the technical contributors to OpenStack. We have about a month remaining with our current crew and elections coming soon. Read the summary of latest meetings to find out about defcore, gap analysis and projects in incubation.
OpenStack DefCore Process Flow: Community Feedback Cycles for Core [6 points + chart]
DefCore is an OpenStack Foundation Board managed process “that sets base requirements by defining 1) capabilities, 2) code and 3) must-pass tests for all OpenStack™ products. This definition uses community resources and involvement to drive interoperability by creating the minimum standards for products labeled OpenStack™.” Rob Hirschfeld details in a blog post what “community resources and involvement” entails. Check out the upcoming DefCore Community Meetings Sep 10 & Sep 11.
The Road To Paris 2014 – Deadlines and Resources
During the Paris Summit there will be a working session for the Women of OpenStack to frame up more defined goals and line out a blueprint for the group moving forward. We encourage all women in the community to complete this very short surveyto provide input for the group.
- Request an invitation letter for VISA
- Reserve hotel rooms
- Call for Proposals: Open Source Ecosystem Design Sessions at the Paris Summit
- Upstream Training in Paris: details and signup form
- Student & Government/Nonprofit Employee Application for Discounted Registration
- The official Schedule for the Paris Summit is available
Reports from Previous Events
Relevant Conversations
- Averting the Nova crisis by splitting out virt drivers
- Kilo Cycle Goals Exercise
- Review metrics – what do we want to measure?
- Steps toward Kerberos and Federation
Tips ‘n Tricks
- By Jason Baker: Trying out WordPress 4.0 on OpenStack
- By Angus Salkeld: How to profile Heat using OSprofile
- By Amrith: The OpenStack Trove Roadmap: A Look at Replication and Clustering in 3 Parts.
- By Andy Hill: Operating OpenStack: Monitoring RabbitMQ
- By Lars Kellogg-Stedman: Visualizing Heat stacksand Docker plugin for OpenStack Heat and Using wait conditions with Heat
- By Sébastien Han: use ephemeral and persistent root storage for different hypervisors
- By Loïc Dachary: What cinder volume is missing an RBD object ?
Security Advisories and Notices
Upcoming Events
- OpenStack India Meetup, Bangalore Sep 06, 2014 – BANGALORE, Karnataka, IN Details
- Google+ Hangout: OpenStack Swift 2.0 – Deep Dive into Storage Policies Sep 9, 2014
- FossetCon Sep 11 – 13, 2014 – Orlando, FL Details
- OpenStack Meeting 2014 Sep 11, 2014 – São Paulo, SP, BR Details
- OpenStack India Meetup, Pune Sep 13, 2014 – Pune, Maharashtra, IN Details
- OpenStack Silicon Valley Sep 16, 2014 – Mountain View, CA, US Details
- OpenStack Conference Benelux 2014 Sep 19, 2014 – Bussum, The Netherlands Details
- Athens OpenStack User Group meeting Sep 24, 2014 – Athens, GR Details
- OpenStack Summit November 2014 Nov 03 – 07, 2014 – Paris, France Details
Other News
- New mailing lists for third party announcements and account requests
- Announce: gerrymander 1.4 – a client API and command line tool for gerrit
- StackTach.v3 – Screencasts
- oslotest 1.1.0.0a2 released
- Swift 2.1.0 released
- [Glance] Triage Bug Day on Thursday Sept 11
- Announcing Gertty 1.0.0: A console interface to Gerrit
- Introducing Poppy – An Open API for CDN Provisioning
- OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary and full logs.
Got Answers?
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- vhost_net panics under heavy load
- How to properly configure Stacktach to work with Icehouse?
- Cannot allocate memory during Puppet run: nova.pp
- How to properly configure Stacktach to work with Icehouse?
- how to increase instance quota in icehouse horizon
- Updates to quota done via CLI not reflected in Horizon
- Instance Console log OK but nothing on actual console
- How to solve “Unknown protocol sheepdog” in Cinder
- Remove availability zone / aggregate
- How to use 501 response codes in OpenStack methods?
- Example of tempest test cases running parallel
- how is multi-tenancy achieved on networking if v2 API does not include the tenant_id in the URI?
- Isolation without secgroup on nova-network & vSphere
- Unable to launch VM – nova.openstack.common.rpc.amqp ValueError: too many values to unpack
- Is there a WADL file for Databases Service API v1.0 of openstack?
- how to override handle method in SelfHandlingForm in OpenStack horizon?
Welcome New Reviewers, Developers and Core Reviewers
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