All, The board report is due again. Below the draft report, please send me your suggestions, additions, basically any kind of feedback.
Cheers, Hugo DESCRIPTION Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. ISSUES None CURRENT ACTIVITY * The community is working on the next major release (4.5.0) of Apache CloudStack. The first release candidate is available already. * Ongoing efforts in fixing bugs and findings from static code analysis resulted in a number of bug fixes to existing branches. * Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey 5.3.0 was released on Nov 11 2014. Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey is a CLI tool for interacting with Apache CloudStack and is distributed separate from Apache CloudStack * Apache CloudStack 4.4.1 was released Oct 23 2014. This maintenance release will be followed by a second maintenance release 4.4.2 in December. * The community enjoyed a very successful European CloudStack Collaboration Conference (CCCEU). CCCEU in Budapest. The new format including a full day single room track and poster sessions seemed to work out well. * The community is still struggling with way to improve quality and prevent master from breaking. Multiple efforts including improved automated testing and work flow enhancements are being executed and/or proposed. There is no clear consensus other than the generic agreement that the current situation leaves ample room for improvement. RELEASES Apache CloudStack 4.4.1 was released on Oct 23, 2014. Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey 5.3.0 was released on Nov 11, 2014 COMMUNITY Including the following additions, CloudStack has 96 committers and 32 (+3) PMC members. New Committers: - New PMC Members: Ian Duffy (duffy)- Sep 29 Pierre-Luc Dion (pdion891) - Sep 29 Rajani Kuruturi (rajani) - Oct 16 The Apache CloudStack project remains a high volume community: dev@ msgs = Nov: 1322, Oct: 1054, Sep: 1421 users@ msgs = Nov: 670, Oct: 557, Sep: 481 issues@ msgs = Nov: 1933, Oct: 1011, Sep: 1671 commits@ msgs = Nov: 1039, Oct: 696, Sep: 826 marketing@ msgs = Nov: 70, Oct: 60, Sep:69 users-cn@ msgs = Nov: 120, Oct: 46, Sep: 61
