OpenStack is busy with so much development activity it's hard to keep up. 42 (!) specs were targeted for the 3-month long Bexar development cycle... and there are more than 150 active branches. Over the last month alone, we saw 750 commits by 50 different people. Taking a step back, what …
In his book Where in the world is my team, Terence Brake outlines the three challenges that global and virtual teams face. There is Isolation (reduced contacts and difficulty of trust building can easily make you feel alone and lose motivation), Fragmentation (unclear purpose and fuzzy responsabilities fragment your effort …
Last week I started a new job, working for Rackspace Hosting as the Release Manager for the Openstack project. I'm still very much working from home on open source software, so that part doesn't change. However, there are some subtle differences.
First of all, Openstack is what we call an …