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/00002... 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-...
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...
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...
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]