Hi, Here is the latest Fedora OpenStack status report: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenStack_status_report_2012-08-11 Historical archives are here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenStack_status_reports Cheers, Pádraig. (appended below for convenience) = Distro News = == 2012.1.2 stable release == Mark McLoughlin pushed out stable tree (Essex) [http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-announce/2012-August/000020.html 2012.1.2 releases] for nova, glance and keystone. You can drill down to the bugs and security fixes included there. Also a good way to get an indication of the stable changes coming through from lots of use and testing, is to scan the changes in the [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/openstack-nova-2012.1.1-15.el6 latest pending nova update] for example. == openstack-nova package split == In Fedora and EPEL, the [http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/cloud/2012-July/001574.html openstack-nova package was split] out into sub packages to allow more granular installation. = Project News = == openstack-common Project Technical Lead == Mark McLoughlin from Red Hat is now [http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-08-07-20.04.html officially openstack-common PTL] and member of the [http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/PPB PPB/TC] == Foundation board - Individual Member Director nominations == There were [https://www.openstack.org/election/2012-board-election/candidates/ 42 candidates] nominated for 8 Individual Member Director seats on the 24 person Foundation board, including Mark McLoughlin and Jim Jagielski from Red Hat == Red Hat contributions == An [http://www.rackspace.com/blog/how-i-contribute-to-openstack-red-hats-mark-mcloughlin/ interview with Mark McLoughlin] about his involvement with OpenStack, was published. There is too much to track in detail the OpenStack upstream activity of Red Hat developers, but here is a link showing the [http://goo.gl/aewXr latest Red Hat OpenStack upstream development] = Community engagement = == OpenStack community meetup, London == Daniel Berrange talked about libvirt usage wrt Nova + KVM/LXC at the [http://www.meetup.com/Openstack-London/events/55354582/ OpenStack community meetup in London on July 25th]. Richard Morrell from Red Hat was present and prepared a [http://cloudevangelist.org/2012/07/27/openstack_podcast/ writeup] including slides and podcast of Daniel P. Berrangé's talk, and a link to Daniel's own writeup of the event. The meeting proved so popular, another is organised for September. = Related projects = == OpenShift == A video demo was created [https://openshift.redhat.com/community/videos/running-openshift-origin-on-openstack-at-hpcloud running OpenShift on OpenStack at HPCloud] == cloud-init == CERN's adjustments to support [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cloud-init-0.6.3-0.9.bzr532.el5 cloud-init on RHEL5] and derivatives was released == heat API == The Heat project continues to progress quickly with [http://lists.heat-api.org/pipermail/discuss/2012-July/000189.html V5 released] and an [https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg14700.html application for OpenStack Incubation] _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud