This should be a blog post
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:38 AM, sebgoa <run...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Couple months ago I shared a few thoughts for 2015 [1], things that we could > do to make our project even greater. > There has been good progress, so I would like to share a few updates. > > 1- Review board. > We are no longer using review board, all code contributions should now come > as github pull requests. > This is proving to be very successful. We have closed 248 pull requests and > have 12 currently open. > This does not count the commits that come in directly into the source. > Let's keep it coming. > > 2- AWSAPI > We removed the AWSAPI code that was in our source. It consisted of a lot of > auto-generated code and increased > our number of lines of code quite a bit. This is going to make our build and > our packaging easier. > > 3- ec2stack and gcestack > Those two packages are now official CloudStack subproject. They are hosted on > Apache git infrastructure and mirrored on github [2][3]. > We are accepting pull requests the same way than our standard source. > These are python packages, and represent a good entry point for Python > programmers. > Next is to actually do an official release of these two API interfaces. > > 4-Ansible > The ansible cloudstack module from Rene Moser is being merged in as a core > Ansible module. > Expect it in Ansible 2.0 > > 5-New docs theme > Our documentation has a new documentation theme [4] thanks to Pierre-Luc Dion. > There is still a lot to do here, see [1] for low hanging fruits in this area. > > 6-CloudStack days > Our CloudStack days kicked off in Austin. > The Tokyo day will be on June 2nd [5] and the schedule should be up shortly. > The call for papers are open for Seattle [6] on August 20th and Dublin on > October 8-9 [7] > We also have a London meet up this week [11] and in June we will have one in > Amsterdam. > The Dublin event will be a two day event with an off-site hackathon. > Submit your talks early so we can plan a great program. > Sponsor so we can have a great conference. > Register so we can all meet face to face. > > 7-Website > The website has been moved to git, instead of the old svn based apache > content management system. > It is mirrored on github [8] and we can accept pull requests for modification. > The website now uses middleman for build system. > There is also tons to do there, we should come up with a new slick modern > design. > > In terms of code, 4.5.1 has been released [10] which contains some great > plugins like Nuage SDN, SAML 2.0 and Globo DNS. > > With Apache getting more resources from TravisCI, we are now able to run more > integration tests for every commit and we are going to try a new release > process for 4.6. > We all continue to strive to make CloudStack even more rock solid than it is > now, and making it a snap to release our code. So do chime in on the > dev@cloudstack.apache.org if you want to help with hardening and extending > CloudStack. > > If you are not a developer, do have a look at [1], a lot of those items fall > in the JFDI [9] category. Finishing up some of those will greatly help the > +2000 people on these lists. > > Personally I see all this as great progress and focus, let's keep it up. > > Cheers, > > [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/2015+Plan > [2] https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-ec2stack > [3] https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-gcestack > [4] http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org > [5] http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudstack-tokyo > [6] http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudstack-seattle/program/cfp > [7] > http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudstack-collaboration-conference-europe > [8] https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-www > [9] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=JFDI > [10] > http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/cloudstack-release-notes/en/4.5.1/ > [11] > http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cloudstack-european-user-group-tickets-16282793273?aff=erelexporg > > > -Sebastien Goasguen > VP Apache CloudStack
