What's new in Apache CloudStack? This issue, we take a look at progress towards the 4.1.0 release, major discussions in the community, and the upcoming CloudStack Collaboration Conference. We also welcome three new committers to the Apache CloudStack project, Clayton Weise, Isaac Chiang, and Phong Nguyen.
As you may have noticed, we skipped the newsletter last week. Apologies about that! This week's newsletter catches up from the beginning of May.
The Apache CloudStack community is going to have its second conference in late June. If you missed the first one, or couldn't wait to do it again, you'll want to hurry up and make plans to be there!
Several major discussions this week, summarized below. Note that this is only a fraction of the activity in the project. For a full overview of project activity, you may want to subscribe to dev@cloudstack.apache.org.
Chip Childers sent out an update on the latest blockers on Monday, May 13th.
To better help communicate about security related matters, announce security concerns, and determine additional security needs for CloudStack, a new mailing list Security@cloudstack.apache.org is being set up. You can subscribe by e-mailing security-subscribe@cloudstack.apache.org.
Daan Hoogland has proposed refactoring the network guru. Chiradeep Vittal points out that, for major changes, we should have a functional specification (FS) in addition to an email bringing the topic up on dev@. Daan has agreed to provide one, which should help spark an intelligent discussion about the proposed feature.
Suresh Sadhu has asked for review of a QA Test Plan for "Better VM Sync" and for comments on the plan.
Animesh Chaturvedi has posted a reminder about the 4.2.0 feature freeze, along with the dashboard for tracking 4.2.0 progress.
Sudha Ponnaganti reminds contributors to change the status in Jira. It's important to help folks doing QA to pick up the feature for validation.
If you have an event you wanted added here, please send to the marketing@cloudstack.apache.org or see how to contribute to the news below.
Clayton Weise has been invited to become a committer and has accepted.
Phong Nguyen has been invited to become a committer and has accepted.
Isaac Chiang has been invited to become a committer and has accepted.
Want to keep reading the CloudStack Weekly News? Many hands make light work, but having only one editor means getting the weekly news out every week is a "best effort" activity. A healthy community publication needs several contributors to ensure weekly issues go out on time.
If you have an event, discussion, or other item to contribute to the Weekly News, you can add it directly to the wiki by editing the issue you want your item to appear in. (The next week's issue is created before the current issue is published - so at any time there should be at least one issue ready to edit.)
Alternatively, you can send a note to the marketing@cloudstack.apache.org mailing list with a subject including NEWS: description of topic or email the newsletter editor directly (jzb at apache.org), again with the subject NEWS: description of topic. Please include a link to the discussion in the mailing list archive or Web page with details of the event, etc.