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 …
At the time I'm writing this, we have final release candidates published for all the components that make up OpenStack 2012.1, codenamed "Essex":
Since the beginning of March, OpenStack developers are focusing on testing and bugfixes, with the objective of producing a release candidate for each project.
Regular readers of my blog know I'm not the last one to complain when I feel developers don't care about the release and don't participate to …
Every 6 months, as a cycle ends and we prepare the next, we look back at our release model and try to see how we can improve it. My opinion is that we need (once more) to evolve it, and here is why.
Our main objective …
I'm back from Brussels, where happened the coldest FOSDEM ever. It started on Friday night with the traditional beer event. Since the Delirium was a bit small to host those thousands of frozen geeks, the FOSDEM organizers had enlisted the whole block as approved bars !
On the Saturday, I spent …