The beginning of a new release cycle is as good as any moment to question why we actually go through the hassle of producing OpenStack releases. Twice per year, on a precise date we announce 6 months in advance, we bless and publish source code tarballs of the various integrated …
Back from a (almost) entirely-offline week vacation, a lot of news were waiting for me. A full book was written. OpenStack projects graduated. An Ubuntu rolling release model was considered. But what grabbed my attention was the announcement of UDS moving to a virtual event. And every 3 months. And …
As comparing OpenStack with Linux becomes an increasingly popular exercise, it's only natural that people and press articles start to ask where the Linus Torvalds of OpenStack is, or who the Linus Torvalds of OpenStack should be. This assumes that technical leaders could somehow be appointed in OpenStack. This assumes …
Mark's recent blogpost on Raring community skunkworks got me thinking. I agree it would be unfair to spin this story as Canonical/Ubuntu switching to closed development. I also agree that (as the damage control messaging was quick to point out) inviting some members of the community to participate in …
Over the last months I've seen more and more tweets and news articles using the formulation "OpenStack should", as in "OpenStack should support Amazon APIs since it's the de-facto standard". I think there is a fundamental misconception there and I'd like to address it.
As a quick aside (and contrary …