Apache CloudStack Weekly News - 21 January 2013

As usual, a lot of activity on the -dev mailing list. Several VOTEs this week around features donated by Citrix, and quite a few upcoming events. Speaking of events, videos from the CloudStack Collaboration Conference are up on YouTube!

Major Discussions and Issues

• Vote result: Donation of Marvin automated tests accepted.
• Several continuing votes this week about accepting code donations from Citrix that were developed outside Apache CloudStack. Egress firewall rules feature, network services (PF, NAT, LB) in shared networks of advanced zone, Reset SSH Key, Documentation for various features, Support Security Group enabled in Advanced Networking Zone, Optional Public IP assignment for EIP with Basic Zone
• CloudStack Collab 2012 videos have been posted. Share and enjoy!
• QA Scrum minutes for 1/15 are posted on the wiki.
• Social Network Analysis of Apache CloudStack - blog post by Sebastien Goasguen, he looks at activity and communication between members on the mailing list.
• Minutes from Weekly IRC Meeting. Meetings are every Wednesday at 17:00 UTC in #cloudstack-meeting on Freenode.

Upcoming Events

• 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)
• Build a Cloud Day (BACD): Full day BACD at SCALE on Friday (22 February 2013).
• CloudStack Booth at SCALE: Meet with CloudStack folks at SCALE (23-24 February 2013), also Joe Brockmeier is speaking about CloudStack at SCALE.

Jira

• 48 Open and Unassigned Issues affecting 4.1.0
• 90 Open Issues affecting 4.1.0
• 474 Open Issues in total against Apache CloudStack

New Committers and PPMC Members

For this week's news only we're mentioning new committers and PPMC members for this month (Jan 2013);

• Sebastien Goasguen (committer)
• Joe Brockmeier (PPMC)
• Kelcey Damage (committer)