No rest for the OpenStack developers, today saw the release of the July development efforts for Nova and Glance: the Diablo-3 milestone.
Glance gained two performance options: API servers can now cache image data on the local filesystem, and a delayed delete feature allows image deletion to happen asynchronously.
With …
About a month ago I commented on the features delivered in the diablo-1 milestone. Last week we released the diablo-2 milestone for your testing and feature evaluation pleasure.
Most of the changes to Glance were made under the hood. In particular the new WSGI code from Nova was ported to …
There was a bit of discussion lately on feature-based vs. time-based release schedules in OpenStack, and here are my thoughts on it. In a feature-based release cycle, you release when a given set of features is implemented, while in a time-based release cycle, you release at a predetermined date, with …
Back at the OpenStack Design Summit in Santa Clara, we decided to switch from a 3-month cycle to a 6-month coordinated release cycle, with more frequent milestones delivery in the middle.
Lately we have been busy adapting the release processes to match the delivery of the first milestones. Swift 1 …
A few weeks after the OpenStack Design Summit in Santa Clara, we are starting to get a better picture of what should be in the next version of OpenStack Nova, codenamed Diablo, scheduled for release on September 22.
One big priority of this release is to separate code for the …