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ttx: Mitaka-3 is done.
Odyssey4me: OpenStack-Ansible Liberty 12.0.7 is released [1].
johnthetubaguy: Nova is down to four pending blueprints for feature freeze now [2], sort of one day left. Better than it was this morning at least.
Russellb: Got a set of OVS flows working in OVN that applies security group changes immediately to existing connections.
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Outreachy [5] helps people from groups underrepresented in free and open source software get involved by matching interns with established mentors in the upstream community.
We have 10 volunteer mentors for OpenStack this next cycle (May 23-August 23 2016).
- Learn more and apply to be a mentor [6]
Potential sponsors have reached out, but we need more due to the increase in applicants.
- Each intern is $6,500 for the three-month program.
- The OpenStack Foundation has confirmed participation.
- Learn more and apply to be a sponsor [7].
Regardless, help spread the world!
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The API working group would like to change the format of headers used for microversions to make them more future proof before too many projects are using them.
- Proposed guideline [8].
This came up in another guide for header non-proliferation [9].
After plenty of discussions, and with projects already deploying microversions (Nova, Ironic, Manila) the proposal is change basic from:
- X-OpenStack-Nova-API-Version: 2.11
- OpenStack-Compute-API-Version: 2.11
To:
- OpenStack-API-Version: compute 2.11
This allows us to use one header name for multipel services and avoids some of the problems described in the header non-proliferation guideline [9].
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The Foundation would like introduce some informal quirky awards to recognize the extremely valuable work that we all do to make Openstack excel.
With many different areas to celebrate, there are a few main chunks of the community that need a little love:
- Those who might not be aware that they are valued, particularly new contributors
- Those who are the active glue that binds the community together
- Those who share their hard-earned knowledge with others and mentor
- Those who challenge assumptions, and make us think
Nominate someone who you think is deserving of an awards [10]!
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13 services were ported to Python 3 during the Mitaka cycle: Cinder, Glance, Heat, Horizon, etc.
9 services still need to be ported
Next Milestone: Functional and integration tests
“Ported to Python 3” means that all unit tests pass on Python 3.4 which is verified by a voting gate job. It is not enough to run applications in production with Python 3. Integration and functional tests are not run on Python 3 yet.
Read the full status post [11] by Victor Stinner.
Join Freenode channel #openstack-python3 to discuss and help out!
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