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The Apache CloudStack community has been heads-down for the last week working out the remaining bugs for the 4.1.0 release. Chatter on the dev@ mailing list has been a little muted, comparatively, but there's still plenty of interest in this week's roundup of major discussions and CloudStack community activity.

This week, we look at the outstanding issues for 4.1.0, a discussion about allowing multiple API names for the same API Cmd object, how to deal with tests that expect no database, and how ticket assignment should work.

Major Discussions

Outstanding Work for the 4.1.0 Release

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Now that Apache CloudStack is a top-level project (TLP), it prepares its own report for the board. Chip Childers started the discussion on the mailing list with a draft of the report.

Assigning Tickets

Noah Slater raised an issue about ticket assignments:

Right now, we have people who are regularly going through JIRA and triaging tickets. This is totally fantastic, and a very valuable activity for the project. (So thank you!) But I also notice that specific individuals are being assigned to the tickets in the process.

This is a form of "cookie licking". The analogy is that if you fancy a cookie, but you're too hungry right now, you take a lick of it so nobody else can touch it. This is an anti-pattern and we should try to avoid it.

As a result, Noah suggested that we change the way that ticket assignments are handled so that people are taking tickets as they get a chance to work on them, rather than taking tickets that they plan to work on.

CloudStack Planet - Posts from the CloudStack Community

• Chip Childers: "Apache CloudStack Graduation News Roundup" Chip rounds up some of the reports on the Apache CloudStack graduation.

Upcoming Events

• Open Cloud Challenges at the Data Center Expo, Paris, April 10th Open Cloud.
• Cloud Computing at the University of British Columbia (Robson Campus), Vancouver, Canada, April 9th.
• CloudStack Introduction and Basics - The inaugural meeting of the CloudStack NYC User Group will be Wednesday, April 10th in New York City. Sign up on Meetup.com.
• UK/European CloudStack user group meet-up will be April 11th in London.
• Storage in Apache CloudStack being held by the CloudStack SF Bay Area Users Group on April 30, 2013 @ Citrix Conference Center, sign up on the Meetup.com Website.
• CloudStack Bangalore Meetup Sometime in April, date not yet announced. Watch the Meetup page for details.Open Cloud Challenges at the Data Center Expo, Paris, April 10th Open Cloud

Jira

• Last week: 2 blocker bugs. This week: 2 blocker bugs, only one of which is truly a bug. (The other is a task that must be completed before release.)
• Last week: 6 critical bugs. This week: 6 critical bugs
• Last week: 122 major bugs. This week: 118 major bugs
• Last week: 23 minor bugs. This week: 23 minor bugs

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