Apache CloudStack Weekly News - 14 January 2013

Major Discussions and Issues

• Project Bylaws were discussed previously and after a substantial discussion on cloudstack-dev have passed. The bylaws are intended to go into effect once Apache CloudStack graduates from the Apache Incubator. (Note that a vote on graduation is not currently pending.)
• Discussion about whether CloudStack should make a concerted effort to get into Linux distros.
• There are some concerns about where development is happening for major features being targeted for CloudStack 4.1.0. A number of features have been developed outside of the community, and may need to go through IP clearance to be accepted into master for 4.1.0.
• Discussion on how CloudMonkey should be released, whether it makes sense to release CloudMonkey out-of-band via pypi or stick with major releases.
• Reminder to developers to update status, risk, and issues in Jira items.
• Vote to accept Marvin automated tests from Citrix started on January 9th the vote passed and now will begin going through IP clearance.
• Minutes from QA Scrum on 8 January 2013.
• Minutes from CloudStack IRC Meeting 9 January 2013 and the full log.

Upcoming Events

CloudStack will be represented at a number of events in the next few weeks:

• OSSI DHS Industry Day David Nalley is on a panel and will talk about Apache CloudStack at the OSSI Industry Day in Linthicum, Maryland on Monday, 14 January 2013.
• DC Riak Users Group David Nalley is speaking about CloudStack at the DC Riak Users Group in Washington DC on Wednesday, 16 January 2013.
• PuppetCamp Silicon Valley: David Nalley is speaking about CloudStack at PuppetCamp Silicon Valley on Friday, 18 January 2013.
• PuppetCamp Sydney: Joe Brockmeier is speaking about Apache CloudStack at PuppetCamp Sydney on Thursday, 24 January 2013.
• Linux.conf.au: Joe Brockmeier is speaking about Apache CloudStack during the Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Storage and High Availability miniconf on Monday (28 January, 2013).
• FOSDEM: Sebastien Goasguen is speaking about Apache CloudStack features and tools during the cloud DevRoom at FOSDEM on Sunday (3 February, 2013).
• Build a Cloud Day (BACD): Full day workshop on CloudStack co-located with Puppet Camp in Ghent, Belgium (1 February, 2013).
• UK/European User Group Meet-up : Shapeblue is organizing a meet-up. (January 16th, 2013)

Jira

In the last 30 days (as of 11 January, 2013) 345 issues have been created in Jira, and 85 have been resolved.

• Unassigned Issues: 299 as of 11 January, 2013. Please see if any of the issues are something you can help with.
• There are 84 open issues affecting 4.1.0.
• 75 issues are of blocker, critical, or major status.

New Committers and PPMC Members

• Sebastien Goasguen and Kelcey Damage were welcomed as new committers.