OpenStack status

[Pádraig Brady]

Hi,

Here is the latest Fedora OpenStack status report:

  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenStack_status_report_2012-08-11

Historical archives are here:

  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenStack_status_reports

Cheers,
Pádraig.

(appended below for convenience)

= Distro News =

== 2012.1.2 stable release ==
Mark McLoughlin pushed out stable tree (Essex) [http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2012-August/000020.html 2012.1.2 releases] for nova, glance and keystone.
You can drill down to the bugs and security fixes included there.
Also a good way to get an indication of the stable changes coming through from lots of use and testing,
is to scan the changes in the [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/openstack-nova-2012.1.1-15.el6 latest pending nova update] for example.

== openstack-nova package split ==
In Fedora and EPEL, the [http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/cloud/2012-July/001574.html openstack-nova package was split] out into sub packages
to allow more granular installation.

= Project News =

== openstack-common Project Technical Lead ==
Mark McLoughlin from Red Hat is now [http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-08-07-20.04.html officially openstack-common PTL]
and member of the [http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/PPB PPB/TC]

== Foundation board - Individual Member Director nominations ==
There were [https://www.openstack.org/election/2012-board-election/candidates/ 42 candidates]
nominated for 8 Individual Member Director seats on the 24 person Foundation board,
including Mark McLoughlin and Jim Jagielski from Red Hat

== Red Hat contributions ==

An [http://www.rackspace.com/blog/how-i-contribute-to-openstack-red-hats-mark-mcloughlin/ interview with Mark McLoughlin]
about his involvement with OpenStack, was published.

There is too much to track in detail the OpenStack upstream activity of Red Hat developers,
but here is a link showing the [http://goo.gl/aewXr latest Red Hat OpenStack upstream development]

= Community engagement =

== OpenStack community meetup, London ==
Daniel Berrange talked about libvirt usage wrt Nova + KVM/LXC
at the [http://www.meetup.com/Openstack-London/events/55354582/ OpenStack community meetup in London on July 25th].
Richard Morrell from Red Hat was present and prepared a
[http://cloudevangelist.org/2012/07/27/openstack_podcast/ writeup] including slides and
podcast of Daniel P. Berrangé's talk, and a link to Daniel's own writeup of the event.
The meeting proved so popular, another is organised for September.

= Related projects =

== OpenShift ==
A video demo was created
[https://openshift.redhat.com/community/videos/running-openshift-origin-on-openstack-at-hpcloud running OpenShift on OpenStack at HPCloud]

== cloud-init ==
CERN's adjustments to support [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cloud-init-0.6.3-0.9.bzr532.el5 cloud-init on RHEL5] and derivatives was released

== heat API ==
The Heat project continues to progress quickly with [http://lists.heat-api.org/pipermail/discuss/2012-July/000189.html V5 released]
and an [https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14700.html application for OpenStack Incubation]