How to Effectively Contribute to An Open Source Project Such As OpenStack Neutron http://www.siliconloons.com/how-to-effectively-contribute-to-an-open-source-project-such-as-openstack-neutron/

As Neutron’s Tech Lead (PTL), Kyle Mestery http://www.siliconloons.com/ has been mostly heads down working to ensure the Neutron project has a successful Juno release. Increasingly, and especially near OpenStack Juno milestone deadlines https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Juno_Release_Schedule, he’s forced to make hard choices and start turning new features down in order to focus on shipping good quality code for Juno. He sent an email http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-July/041136.html to the openstack-dev mailing list this morning addressing the pressure his team is under. He also wrote a longer blog post to expand upon that email.

OpenStack Failures https://dague.net/2014/07/22/openstack-failures/

Last week the bulk of the brain power of the OpenStack QA and Infra teams were all in one room, in real life. This was a great opportunity to spend a bunch of time diving deep into the current state of the Gate, figure out what’s going on, and how we might make things better. Sean Dague https://dague.net/, Jim Blair, wElizabeth K. Joseph http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=9574 and bmwiedemann http://lizards.opensuse.org/2014/07/23/openstack-infraqa-meetup/ wrote a summary of the week.

OpenStack plays Tetris : Stacking and Spreading a full private cloud http://openstack-in-production.blogspot.com/2014/07/openstack-plays-tetris-stacking-and.html

CERN is running a large scale private cloud which is providing compute resources for physicists analysing the data from the Large Hadron Collider. With 100s of VMs created per day, the OpenStack scheduler has to perform a Tetris like job to assign the different flavors of VMs falling to the specific hypervisors.

Juno Updates – https://blog-nkinder.rhcloud.com/?p=111Security https://blog-nkinder.rhcloud.com/?p=111, Authentication and other neat things https://blog-nkinder.rhcloud.com/?p=111

There is a lot of development work going on in Juno in security related areas. Nathan Kinder https://blog-nkinder.rhcloud.com/ wrote up some of the more notable efforts that are under way in Keystone, Barbican, Kite and other projects.

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 survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/V39BL7Hto provide input for the group.

* Call for Speakers WILL CLOSE SOON – November Summit in Paris http://www.openstack.org/blog/2014/07/call-for-speakers-now-open-november-summit-in-paris/ * Applications for Travel Support Program are open until August 18th https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Travel_Support_Program * Request an invitation letter for VISA https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-paris-summit-2014/visa-information/

* Reserve hotel rooms https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-paris-summit-2014/hotels/

Security Advisories and Notices

* Denial of Service in Neutron allowed address pair (CVE-2014-3555) http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-July/000255.html

Tips ‘n Tricks

* BySean Dague https://dague.net/: Splitting up Git Commits https://dague.net/2014/07/24/splitting-up-git-commits/ * By Dimitri Vanoverbeke http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2014/07/24/dbaas-openstack-and-trove-101-introduction-to-the-basics/: DBaaS, OpenStack and Trove 101: Introduction to the basics http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2014/07/24/dbaas-openstack-and-trove-101-introduction-to-the-basics/ * By Mika Ayenson http://ayenson.blogspot.com/search/label/Openstack: Openstack Re-Heat http://ayenson.blogspot.com/2014/07/hello-all-my-name-is-mika-ayenson-and-i.html * By Adam Young http://adam.younglogic.com/: Devstack mounted via NFS http://adam.younglogic.com/2014/07/devstack-vm-nfs/ * By Arx Cruz http://blog.arxcruz.net/: Deleting OpenStack Instances directly from database http://blog.arxcruz.net/deleting-openstack-instances-directly-from-database

Upcoming Events

* penstack Brazil Day / 4th Birthday http://openstackbr.com.br/eventos/openstack-brasil-day/ Jul 26, 2014 – Porto Alegre, RS, BR Details http://openstackbr.com.br/eventos/openstack-brasil-day/ * OpenStack 4th Anniversary-Frankfurt http://www.meetup.com/openstack-de/events/187307832/ Jul 28, 2014 – Frankfurt, DE Details http://www.meetup.com/openstack-de/events/187307832/ * OpenStack 4th Anniversary – Berlin http://www.meetup.com/openstack-de/events/187308322/ Jul 29, 2014 – Berlin, DE Details http://www.meetup.com/openstack-de/events/187308322/ * OpenStack 4th BIrthday Party http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Nairobi/events/184903312/ Jul 29, 2014 – Nairobi, Kenya Details http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Nairobi/events/184903312/ * OpenStack 4th Birthday Celebration http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/190061812/ Jul 30, 2014 – San Francisco, CA, US Details http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/190061812/ * OpenStack LA Meetup4th BD Party http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-LA/events/195698132/ Jul 31, 2014 – Pasadena, CA, US Details http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-LA/events/195698132/ * OpenStack miniconf at PyCon AU http://openstack.pycon-au.org/ Aug 01 – 05, 2014 – Brisbane, Queensland, AU Details http://openstack.pycon-au.org/ * SFBay Meetup – Beginner track http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/150932532/ Aug 07, 2014 – Sunnyvale, CA Details http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/150932532/ * OpenStack workshop at Fedora Flock http://flock2014.sched.org/event/1d4b19e447ef9c55207791db8e8b1307#.U4_kH66VOwM Aug 09, 2014 – Prague, Czech Republic, CZ Details http://flock2014.sched.org/event/1d4b19e447ef9c55207791db8e8b1307#.U4_kH66VOwM * Serviceability, Swift and OpenStack http://www.meetup.com/Openstack-Boston/events/189349082/ Aug 14, 2014 – Boston, MA, US Details http://www.meetup.com/Openstack-Boston/events/189349082/ * OpenStack Trove Day http://www.tesora.com/event/openstack-trove-day Aug 19, 2014 – Cambridge, MA, US Details http://www.tesora.com/event/openstack-trove-day * CloudOpen North America http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudopen-north-america Aug 20 – 22, 2014 – Chicago, IL Details http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudopen-north-america * OpenStack Silicon Valley http://openstacksv.com/ Sep 16, 2014 – Mountain View, CA, US Details http://openstacksv.com/ * OpenStack Conference Benelux 2014 http://www.openstack.nl/OpenStack_Benelux_2014 Sep 19, 2014 – Bussum, The Netherlands Details http://www.openstack.nl/OpenStack_Benelux_2014 * OpenStack Summit November 2014 http://openstack.org/summit Nov 03 – 07, 2014 – Paris, France Details http://openstack.org/summit

Other News

* Women Who Code, San Francisco, looking for mentors http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-July/041258.html * The Number One Inhibitor to Cloud Storage (Part 2 of 2)! http://www.buildcloudstorage.com/2014/07/the-number-one-inhibitor-to-cloud.html * OpenStack Infra/QA Meetup http://lizards.opensuse.org/2014/07/23/openstack-infraqa-meetup/ * OpenStack Community Celebrates Four Years! http://www.openstack.org/blog/2014/07/openstack-community-celebrates-four-years/ * That Time When OpenStack Turned Four http://www.rackspace.com/blog/that-time-when-openstack-turned-four/ * Happy Fourth Birthday, OpenStack! http://www.dreamhost.com/dreamscape/2014/07/21/happy-fourth-birthday-openstack/ * OpenStack celebrates fourth birthday http://thoughtsoncloud.com/2014/07/openstack-anniversary-birthday/ * OpenStack Foundation Tax Status http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2014-July/001716.html * python-swiftclient 2.2.0 release http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-July/000256.html * Juno-2 development milestone available http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2014-July/000257.html * OpenStack Board Meeting: July 22, 2014 Board Meeting Summary http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/foundation/2014-July/001718.html * OpenStack Project Meeting: skipped.

Got Answers?

Ask OpenStack https://ask.openstack.org/ is the go-to destination for OpenStack users. Interesting questions waiting for answers:

* Gateway always down https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/43649/gateway-always-down/ * Using same keystone database with two or more keystone server https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/43599/using-same-keystone-database-with-two-or-more-keystone-server/ * Sahara: Keep sahara-api always running https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/43569/sahara-keep-sahara-api-always-running/ * How to run tempest tests, “testr” vs “nosetests”? https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/43639/how-to-run-tempest-tests-testr-vs-nosetests/ * Relationship between BM and compute node which place on BM https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/43632/relationship-between-bm-and-compute-node-which-place-on-bm/ * How to switch Cinder volumes between controllers? https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/43509/how-to-switch-cinder-volumes-between-controllers/ * How to remove a physical compute node from production OpenStack cluster safely https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/43470/how-to-remove-a-physical-compute-node-from-production-openstack-cluster-safely/ * Enable RDO in RHEL 6.5, getting ‘exceptions.TypeError’ https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/43421/enable-rdo-in-rhel-65-getting-exceptionstypeerror/ * Returning exception Block Device Mapping is Invalid https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/43418/returning-exception-block-device-mapping-is-invalid/

Welcome New Reviewers and Developers

Mike Smith http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,person34f3d38a-508f-416e-92f8-464573f538f8 Roman Vasilets http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,person1932d42a-743a-4895-a2ff-9ee778c117a5

Mika Ayenson http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,person26f52101-597f-42fa-94f2-aa76451ec287 Motohiro Otsuka http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,persondb0a308a-9fab-4493-93b5-551097169f7c

Claudiu Nesa http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,person200d76b6-b82a-4958-9369-2ff0989e353b David Yuan http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,persona1762532-2a20-4616-9320-d4d802784a75

Scott Reeve http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,personb0006a1b-6194-4820-886b-9c222d76a308 Amey Ghadigaonkar http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,persond1f92d8f-27f1-4c8a-bfe0-0fb08cba2ad6

Pawel Palucki http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,personda992def-4e1c-4f31-94ce-1c482881362b Alexandr Naumchev http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,personf4683681-9067-4677-aa2f-eac947c66620

Travis McPeak http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,person412cdc3d-f2d0-41ed-b872-dbf96b3ecf16 Michele Paolino http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,person0fd53990-5698-4749-96ec-e1bdfb342e24

Livnat Peer http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,person0720a9dd-336a-430d-be86-7a21641b3c79 Marcus V R Nascimento http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,person833f5d98-08db-4a09-a6b2-9dcef79a7c74

zhangtralon http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,personae9ec4e8-9bbb-4a42-9d7a-3ab97087033b daya kamath http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,personbf3ab6ee-0e4e-4600-b830-3c719e201f1e

Ryan Brown http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,person7a9bb240-d06f-4a65-bdff-f64b7380630f arkady kanevsky http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,personde1e225e-d531-4fed-8a25-1e72f43fd49f

David Caudill http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,personca426ddf-7bf2-4422-a480-526bca9d85f6 Travis McPeak http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,person412cdc3d-f2d0-41ed-b872-dbf96b3ecf16

FeihuJiang http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,personcb7319b9-48eb-4c9f-998d-f7fa7fc7941a ChingWei Chang http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,personb5a5c48b-4456-4a43-93ad-979c8c213998

Anusha http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,person837fb54c-5a30-404a-9c70-a97a8612fdbe JJ Asghar http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,personcefd7b7a-db53-4cb8-af13-327a5c2bdec3

Lee Yarwood http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,persond2ddfea7-b22b-49fb-ac19-08a39171f70e Neetu Jain http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,personb3a80997-71cc-4c67-8574-2146e1ef5b42

François Magimel http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,person77e21e06-22cc-4f0b-994e-b0ef6b526f93

Ashraf Vazeer http://activity.openstack.org/data/plugins/zfacts/view.action?viewproperties=true&instance=Person,person9080c8e8-6a4c-44c5-a91c-5757bc2cb622

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/.

* Telemetry (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 * Data Processing (Sahara) http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/swift * Object Storage (Swift) http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/swift * Database As A Service (Trove) http://activity.openstack.org/data/display/OPNSTK2/trove

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