Last week I attended the Ubuntu Developer Summit for Oneiric in Budapest. This was the first time I attended UDS as an upstream representative rather than as a Canonical employee. I very much enjoyed it: not being a track lead or a busy technical lead actually gives you desirable flexibility …
Just a few days from now, lots of OpenStack community members from around the world will gather in (hopefully sunny) Santa Clara for the OpenStack Conference and Design Summit. As I explained here, those are two co-hosted events, and here are a few precisions on the Design Summit part.
The …
Our 2011.2 release, codenamed "Cactus", was finally released early on April 15. The Diablo merge window opened a few hours later, and in 8 days the developer community will gather in Santa Clara to discuss what will be in it.
If you want to develop a feature for Diablo …
Our time-based release cycles are cadenced by a number of freezes and milestones, and we just passed BranchMergeProposalFreeze for the Cactus cycle. Feature branches should have been proposed by now, so let's see how well we did compared to the original plan we had for this release:
In a bit more than a week, we will hit FeatureFreeze for OpenStack "Cactus" cycle, so we start to have a good idea of what new features will make it. The Cactus cycle focus was on stability, so there are fewer new features compared to Bexar, but the developers still …