Hey,

And updates specifically from the past week or so:

- We had some discussion about how to improve communication between everyone working on OpenStack in Fedora and encourage more folks to help out:

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/cloud/2011-November/000956.html

- An "Open Source Cloud and Virtualization" dev room has been announced for FOSDEM in Brussels on Feb 4-5th:

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/cloud/2011-November/000954.html

- A big openstack-nova update was pushed with ~20 significant updates from the upstream stable branch:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-15887

- Pádraig has continued the work on EPEL6 and posted an update:

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/cloud/2011-November/000970.html

The current status is that I have nova and glance services running and passing very basic tests. I'm using 2 packages not yet in EPEL though.

python-webob: 0.9.6 in RHEL6.2, 1.0.8 in F1[56] python-sqlalchemy: 0.5.5 in RHEL6.2, 0.6.8 in F15

- Bob Kukura has been working on packaging Diablo's Quantum and will post a package for review soon. This has been complicated by the fact that Quantum in Essex has undergone major changes to make it easier to package.

- Russell Bryant has been looking into how we might go about running OpenStack with Apache Qpid rather than RabbitMQ.

- Alan Pevec is preparing a keystone update based on the latest upstream stable branch. He has also been debugging various issues with keystone.

- Cole Robinson has been working on getting Dashboard running on Fedora and has also run into keystone issues.

- I hit an issue with attaching a volume to an instance running on a remote compute node:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/752709

There's a fix proposed in gerrit which can be pulled into Fedora.

- There's been a little bit more progress on making Nova use libguestfs:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/734727

Rich and Pádraig are working up a plan. Also, Andrey from Grid Dynamics pointed out that we actually really need this for EPEL6 since the nbd kernel driver isn't supported on RHEL6.

- Rich also posted an analysis of Nova's file injection code:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2011-November/msg00027.html

- Derek Higgins got a fix merged upstream to have an instance's "managed save" image removed when the VM is undefined:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/740456

- The weird AMQP issue we saw once or twice during the test day has undergone serious debugging by folks upstream, but the root cause hasn't been identified yet:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/747568

- Russell took a look at the "database is locked" errors we see with sqlite and concluded that using SQLite is probably hopeless and we should switch to MySQL by default:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/735012

Cheers, Mark.