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russellb: Ported OVS to Python 3.
notmyname: Removed the beta tag on the swift erasure code docs.
AJaeger: OpenStack configuration reference has been migrated from DocBook XML to RST [1].
notmyname: This season’s Outreachy intern had her first patch merged.
odyssey4me: OpenStack-Ansible 12.0.3 tagged.
jordanP: My 3rd party CI correctly warned me that a patch would break my driver.
asselin: OpenStack Third Party CI documentation published [2].

Slightly Longer Delays for Gate CI Testing

When: January 31, 2016
Why:
- Due to the sunsetting of a public cloud [3] used by the OpenStack Infra team, we will have less resources available.
- Jeremy Stanely says that the Infra team is working on bringing in new providers to absorb the impact.

Focus:
- Second milestone is coming up. Finish up major features or reevaluate if it really needs to land in this cycle.
Actions:
- Identify work that needs to be completed before the M-2 tag.
- Release liaisons responsibilities are being updated. Provide comments for questions or concerns [4].
Important Dates:
- Mitaka 2: Jan 19-21
- Release schedule [5].

A change in global-requirements introduces mimic, an http server that can mock various APIs.
Mimic depends on twisted, which in the past was removed in favor of Eventlet to avoid developers having to know multiple frameworks [5].
Jim Rollenhagen explains Ironic’s need for Mimic:
- To do functional tests, not unit tests which they could do with requests-mock.
- To bring up a less expensive Ironic environment for doing these tests.
Jay Pipes notes:
- This is another way to introduce a larger surface area of bugs to creep in since you have keep Mimic up-to-date with the real interfaces.
- There’s not a clear value in the advantage of functional tests of a client that calls a fake HTTP API versus unit tests of a client that simply uses requests-mock.