Apache CloudStack Weekly News - 6 May 2013

CloudStack North America Collaboration Conference 2013!

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Major Discussions

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.

4.1.0 Update

4.1.0 vote is currently on hold pending two bugs. CLOUDSTACK-2309 reported on May 2. Also CLOUDSTACK-2218 has been reopened. Both are unassigned and need someone to jump in quickly to help move these forward.

CloudStack Planet - Posts from the CloudStack Community

• Chiradeep has created Stackmate, a tool to execute CloudFormation templates against CloudStack, and wrote a great post about it.
• Tariq Iqbal shared some Google trends on the Cloud OpenSource communities: Interesting Google trends data on the CloudStack, OpenStack and Eucalyptus: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cat=0-5&q=openstack%2C%20cloudstack%2C%20eucalyptus&date=4%2F2011%2025m&cmpt=q

Upcoming Events

• Build a Cloud Day CloudCon San Francisco being held at the South San Francisco Conference Center on 15 May.
• ShapeBlue CloudStack BootCamp being held June 22/23 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.
• CloudStack San Francisco Users Group Event being held at SAP Labs in Palo Alto CA. on June 27th. Contact Karen Voung for more details.

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Jira Updates

Checking in on the upcoming 4.2.0 release, we have removed a few bugs over the past week:

Last week we had 11 blocker bugs for 4.2.0. We had no new blocker bugs for 4.2.0 this week.
Last week we had 40 critical bugs for 4.2.0. This week, we have 38 critical bugs for 4.2.0, closing 2 more out.
Last week we had 273 major bugs for 4.2.0. This week, we have 254 major bugs for 4.2.0, closing 19 out.
Last week we had 37 minor bugs for 4.2.0. This week we have 28 minor bugs for 4.2.0, closing 9 out.

30 bugs in the last week closed out. This progress is a community win for everyone!

New Committers and PMC Members

Clayton Weise was announced as a new committer on April 30, 2013. Congratulations!

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