Re: 4.8.2.0/4.9.1.0/4.10.0.0 RC Status

2016-11-17 Thread John Burwell
we have time could we add PR 1710 to the upcoming RC for 4.9.1.0. Its a > small fix but its waiting for log time... > > Thanks again, > Özhan > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 9:23 AM, John Burwell > wrote: > >> All, >> >> I apologize for being relatively

4.8.2.0/4.9.1.0/4.10.0.0 RC Status

2016-11-16 Thread John Burwell
All, I apologize for being relatively radio silent. We have mage good progress towards getting RCs out for 4.8.2.0, 4.9.1.0, and 4.10.0.0. On 31 October 2016, we 17 outstanding PRs to be merged. As of today (17 Nov 2016), we have 9 PRs to merge with pending one potential blocker/critical def

Re: Migrating CloudStack content from download.cloud.com

2016-11-04 Thread John Burwell
Chiradeep, I am +1 to using a mirror list downloaded from downloads.cloudstack.apache.org via https only (i.e. https://downloads.cloudstack.apache.org/mirror.lst). This approach seems to be a common approach employed by other Apache projects that need to provided downloadable assets. Therefor

Re: Outstanding Review/Testing for 4.8.2.0/4.9.1.0/4.10.0.0 RCs

2016-11-01 Thread John Burwell
KVM > https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/977 > > > thanks ! > > > 在2016年11月01 11时23分, "John Burwell"写道: > > All, > > Since we have stabilized the smoke tests, we have made good progress merging > PRs. Currently, the following open P

Outstanding Review/Testing for 4.8.2.0/4.9.1.0/4.10.0.0 RCs

2016-10-31 Thread John Burwell
All, Since we have stabilized the smoke tests, we have made good progress merging PRs. Currently, the following open PRs are being targeted for these releases: * 4.10.0.0 (+ all 4.8.2.0 and 4.9.1.0 PRs) * 1542 * 1545 * 1577

Out 18 - 25 Oct 2016

2016-10-18 Thread John Burwell
All, I will be out 18-25 Oct 2016 for ankle surgery. Murali Reddy will reviewing, testing, and merging PRs until I return. Thanks, -John john.burw...@shapeblue.com  www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London VA WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue

Re: 4.8, 4.9, and master Testing Status

2016-10-13 Thread John Burwell
t; 420 rue Guy *|* Montreal *|* Quebec *|* H3J 1S6 > w cloudops.com *|* tw @CloudOps_ > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 9:53 AM, John Burwell > wrote: > >> All, >> >> Thank you Ilya and Haijao for your words of encouragement. In addition to >> the efforts of

Re: [ANNOUNCE] New committer: Syed Ahmed

2016-10-07 Thread John Burwell
Congratulations, Syed. Thanks, -John > john.burw...@shapeblue.com  www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London VA WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue On Oct 7, 2016, at 6:30 AM, Paul Angus wrote: > > Congrats Syed.! > > > Kind regards, > > Paul Angus > > paul.an...@shapeblue.com > w

Re: 4.8, 4.9, and master Testing Status

2016-10-07 Thread John Burwell
t; > John and Team > > Thanks for amazing work and contributing back. > > Regards, > ilya > > On 10/3/16 9:48 PM, John Burwell wrote: >> All, >> >> A quick update on our progress to pass all smoke tests aka super green. We >> have reduced the fail

Re: 4.8, 4.9, and master Testing Status

2016-10-03 Thread John Burwell
?pageId=65873020 [2]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-9528 [3]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-9529 > john.burw...@shapeblue.com  www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London VA WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue On Sep 30, 2016, at 2:40 AM, John Burw

4.8, 4.9, and master Testing Status

2016-09-29 Thread John Burwell
at goes > in. > > Thanks for all the hard work team. :) > > *Will STEVENS* > Lead Developer > > *CloudOps* *| *Cloud Solutions Experts > 420 rue Guy *|* Montreal *|* Quebec *|* H3J 1S6 > w cloudops.com *|* tw @CloudOps_ > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 2:10 AM, John Bur

Re: [RESULT][VOTE] Apache CloudStack 4.8.1

2016-09-27 Thread John Burwell
; 4.8.2 and I just wanted to get it released before you guys modified the >> branch so the release branching didn't get messed up. >> >> *Will STEVENS* >> Lead Developer >> >> *CloudOps* *| *Cloud Solutions Experts >> 420 rue Guy *|* Montreal *|*

Re: [RESULT][VOTE] Apache CloudStack 4.8.1

2016-09-27 Thread John Burwell
Will, Have we had an official 4.8.1 release? Thanks, -John > john.burw...@shapeblue.com  www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London VA WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue On Aug 15, 2016, at 11:48 AM, Will Stevens wrote: > > Thanks Milamber. I will add my own vote. > > *Will STEVENS*

L10N Translation File Format

2016-09-27 Thread John Burwell
All, As part of the effort to remove the requirement for JSPs and streamline the development process, Milamber has raised the option of replacing the message*.properties files with a JSON key/value format [1]. As I understand it, Transifex supports this file format, and it appears that it woul

4.8, 4.9, and master Branches Frozen for Testing

2016-09-25 Thread John Burwell
All, Per our release schedule [1], the 4.8, 4.9, and master branches are frozen for testing. There are some straggling PRs that Rajani and I are working to merge. Is it acceptable to everyone that for the next two (2) weeks, all PRs require not only 2 LGTMs, but approval by Rajani or I to be

Re: Upcoming 4.8, 4.9, and master Freeze

2016-09-25 Thread John Burwell
://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/%5BPROPOSAL%5D+2016-2017+Release+Cycle+and+Calendar > john.burw...@shapeblue.com  www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London VA WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue On Sep 19, 2016, at 1:18 AM, John Burwell wrote: > > All, > > The 4.8.

Re: Request for comments: Moving to Spring 4 and Java 8

2016-09-23 Thread John Burwell
All, Reviving this thread as it would be a Good Thing(tm) to get Spring 4 merged for 4.10.0.0. Based on Rohit’s original question, it appears that the only issue is F5 on Java8 (not on Java7). Is there someone available with F5 knowledge who can investigate it? If not, would it be acceptable

Upcoming 4.8, 4.9, and master Freeze

2016-09-18 Thread John Burwell
All, The 4.8.2.0 and 4.9.1.0 releases have taken more time than expected to finalize. Per our original schedule [1], 4.9.2.0 and 4.10.0.0 were scheduled to freeze yesterday (18 September 2016). I propose the following schedule and end-of-life (EOL) changes: * 4.8.2.0 is still open, but 4

Re: builds.cloudstack.org (new jenkins system)

2016-09-14 Thread John Burwell
Pierre-Luc, It is possible to have the new Jenkins authenticate against he ASF LDAP? Since the ASF LDAP reflects who is a committer, we wouldn’t have to manage multiple authentication repositories. Thanks, -John > john.burw...@shapeblue.com  www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden,

Re: [DISCUSS] Replacing the VR

2016-09-12 Thread John Burwell
Will, Typo. “application model” was meant to be “appliance model”. Thanks, -John > john.burw...@shapeblue.com  www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London VA WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue On Sep 12, 2016, at 4:35 PM, John Burwell wrote: > > Will, > > I agree

Re: [DISCUSS] Replacing the VR

2016-09-12 Thread John Burwell
Will, I agree that we need to replace the VR, but I am not convinced that continuing with the notion of a monolithic application model is a best direction. The problem with the current model is that it lacks flexibility. Some users only need to deploy DHCP and DNS across a zone where others n

Re: [GitHub] cloudstack issue #1658: Added an additional JSON diff output to the ApiXmlDo...

2016-09-12 Thread John Burwell
Sergey, We are working on a full automated build pipeline that will test against a wide range of configurations. Ideally, the pipeline will work as follows: 1. PR is submitted -> the PR is built, unit tested, and run through static analysis. Smoke tests are run on a matrix of configurati

Merging PRs

2016-09-12 Thread John Burwell
All, There appears to be some confusion around who can merge a PR and when it should occur. Section 2.3 of bylaws [1] are very clear, any committer may commit code to any branch. As a community, we have agreed that non-security contributions should be submitted as a PR, and that a PR must mee

Re: PR reviews for 4.10.0 release

2016-09-06 Thread John Burwell
Kris, Looking at the history of the PR, there appears to be one LGTM for testing the PR scope. Given the size of the change, it seems appropriate to run a regression test. However, there are no results indicating a regression test has been run. I also reviewed the code and left comments to m

Re: 4.8.2.0/4.9.1.0 RC Status

2016-09-01 Thread John Burwell
pache/cloudstack/pull/1665 > john.burw...@shapeblue.com  www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London VA WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue On Aug 28, 2016, at 11:14 PM, John Burwell wrote: > > All, > > I apologize for being behind getting the 4.8.2.0 and 4.9.1.0 RCs out. A

4.8.2.0/4.9.1.0 RC Status

2016-08-28 Thread John Burwell
All, I apologize for being behind getting the 4.8.2.0 and 4.9.1.0 RCs out. A small part of it was due to the RC release dates falling the weekend after being on vacation, and a large part of it is due to rookie mistakes as a first time RM. Hopefully, the lessons learned will keep things on-ti

Re: Eliminating Support for Ubuntu 12.04

2016-08-23 Thread John Burwell
>> > > Well, yes. But I don't know *what* might break on 12.04. I wrote the PR in > May and there must have been a reason for that. > > Feel free to modify the PR and not bump those versions. Packages might work > or not, not completely sure. > > Wido

Eliminating Support for Ubuntu 12.04

2016-08-22 Thread John Burwell
All, PR 1647 [1] proposes dropping support for Ubuntu 12.04 from 4.9.2.0+. The primary motivation for its removal is that the age of its libvirt and qemu versions greatly complicate maintenance of the KVM integration. However, Ubuntu 12.04 will be supported until April 2017 [2]. What would be

4.8.2.0 and 4.9.1.0 Testing

2016-08-14 Thread John Burwell
All, Per our release schedule [1], the 4.8 and 4.9 branches enter a soft freeze for testing for the 4.8.2.0 and 4.9.1.0 testing effective 14 August 2016 @ GMT. During this period, only defects that stabilize changes since the previous release should be merged into these release branches.

Vacation

2016-08-14 Thread John Burwell
All, I will be out on vacation 15-19 August 2016. I will try to keep an eye on dev@ and PRs, but my responses may lag as I will only be checking mail periodically. Thanks, -John john.burw...@shapeblue.com  www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London VA WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue

Re: VPN User/Pass printed in plain text during boot of VRouter

2016-08-11 Thread John Burwell
Matthew, Thank you for the report. I have forwarded this report to security@ for further investigation. Thanks, -John > john.burw...@shapeblue.com  www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London VA WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue On Aug 11, 2016, at 8:14 AM, Matthew Smart wrote: > >

Re: 4.10.0 release

2016-08-04 Thread John Burwell
more people to merge PRs in addition to >> RMs. >> >> How do we select these additional volunteers? >> Any committer can just come forward and declare(in a mail to dev@) that he >> read the release principles[1] and would like to volunteer to commit. >> >> [1] >> ht

Re: 4.10.0 release

2016-08-04 Thread John Burwell
Will, My understanding of the release principles is that all changes must have a PR with the exception of CVE fixes. Since we must accept CVE fixes in private, the 2 LGTM rule is applied on the security@ mailing list and on private JIRA security ticket. I would also say that the release commi

Re: 4.10.0 release

2016-08-04 Thread John Burwell
rstandable that they may not be able to volunteer >>>> enough time and effort to get the PRs sorted. >>>> >>>> >>>> Over past months this and similar practices have killed our commit and >>>> development momentum, and I think it's not a healthy

Re: 4.10.0 release

2016-08-04 Thread John Burwell
t; by John Burwell) >> * Development (master open to features and defect fixes): 1 August 2016 - >> 11 September 2016 >> * Testing: 12 - 18 September 2016 >> * RC Voting: 19 - 25 September 2016 >> * Release: 26 September 2016 >> >> master is open for 4.10.0.

Re: [PROPOSAL] Early LTS Initial Release

2016-08-02 Thread John Burwell
te.com/ > On August 2, 2016 at 2:33 AM, John Burwell > (john.burw...@shapeblue.com) wrote:Wido, > > As proposed, LTS will be a branch of 4.9.0 with a six (6) week > period of additional testing (i.e. soak/endurance, scalability, > and more extensive plugin testing). Therefore, LTS rele

Next Releases

2016-08-01 Thread John Burwell
All, First, thank you to Will for taking on 4.9 and getting it out the door. I have updated the proposed release schedule [1] to reflect the release of 4.9.0 on 1 August 2016. Please review the release schedule. If you have questions or issues, please let me know. I hope we can come to a co

Re: [PROPOSAL] Early LTS Initial Release

2016-08-01 Thread John Burwell
in the original proposal. If/when we gain consensus on this change, I will adjust the schedule. Thanks, -John From: Wido den Hollander Sent: Friday, July 15, 2016 4:15:36 AM To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org; John Burwell Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Early LTS Initial

Re: [VOTE] Apache Cloudstack 4.9.0 RC2

2016-07-28 Thread John Burwell
All, I vote +1 (binding). We have tested 4.9.0 RC2 in the following environments: • CentOS 6.8 management server + CentOS 6.8 KVM Hosts using NFS primary and secondary storage (would allow us to verify/fix the documented libvirt/qemu versions) • CentOS 6.8 management server + v

4.9.0 RC2 Status

2016-07-21 Thread John Burwell
Will, I am inquiring as to the status of 4.9.0 RC2. Are there issues we can help resolve in order to get it out? If not, do you have an ETA on when it will be cut? Thanks, -John john.burw...@shapeblue.com  www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London VA WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue

[PROPOSAL] Early LTS Initial Release

2016-07-13 Thread John Burwell
All, Since LTS introduces a new release stream, I would like to propose that we cut the first LTS quickly to verify that various aspects of the release cycle and version number dependent components will work properly with the new release naming scheme. It will also allow us to flesh out distri

Re: [VOTE] Apache Cloudstack 4.9.0 RC1

2016-07-11 Thread John Burwell
Paul, Is this condition a regression in previous behavior? Thanks, -John > john.burw...@shapeblue.com  www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London VA WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue On Jul 10, 2016, at 8:06 AM, Paul Angus wrote: > > Guys, > > Is it not possible to add the additiona

Re: [PROPOSAL] 2016-2017 Release Cycle and Calendar

2016-07-05 Thread John Burwell
not able to find time to work on 4.9 release, maybe someone else >> can takeover and help with the 4.9 release by 15th July (at least get some >> RCs up for testing and voting)? LTS can be 4.9.1 etc. >> >> >> Regards. >> >>

[PROPOSAL] 2016-2017 Release Cycle and Calendar

2016-07-03 Thread John Burwell
All, Following up on a our discussions about LTS [1], post 4.9 releases [2], and 5.0.0/6.0.0 [3], I have assembled a release plan for the next 18-20 months in the wiki [4]. My original proposal assumed by that 4.9 would be released by 1 July. I have adjusted the timelines assuming that we wil

Re: 4.9/master Testing Coordination

2016-06-23 Thread John Burwell
SUK @shapeblue On Jun 20, 2016, at 4:31 PM, John Burwell wrote: > > All, > > I am working to coordinate some testing at ShapeBlue. I send an update as > soon as I have the list of environment and tests we plan to run. > > Thanks, > -John > &g

Re: 4.9/master Testing Coordination

2016-06-20 Thread John Burwell
;>> >>> echo "Running tests with required_hardware=false" >>> nosetests --with-marvin --marvin-config=${marvinCfg} -s -a >>> tags=advanced,required_hardware=false \ >>> smoke/test_routers.py \ >>> smoke/test_network_acl.py \ >>> smoke/test_

4.9/master Testing Coordination

2016-06-17 Thread John Burwell
All, It is a bit lo-fi, but if you are testing master in preparation for the 4.9 RC, could you please share information about the configurations you testing (e.g. hypervisors, storage backends, network configurations, etc)? Any test results could also be helpful. The hope is to reduce duplica

Re: 4.9.0 Release Status

2016-06-17 Thread John Burwell
wrote: I currently do not have a good mechanism for people to specify what they have tested. I am open to ideas if you have some. On Jun 17, 2016 2:46 PM, "John Burwell" mailto:john.burw...@shapeblue.com>> wrote: Will, Do you know which hypervisors, storage plugins, and net

Re: 4.9.0 Release Status

2016-06-17 Thread John Burwell
TEVENS Lead Developer CloudOps | Cloud Solutions Experts 420 rue Guy | Montreal | Quebec | H3J 1S6 w cloudops.com<http://cloudops.com/> | tw @CloudOps_ On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 2:20 PM, John Burwell mailto:john.burw...@shapeblue.com>> wrote: Will, Is there any assistance the communit

Re: 4.9.0 Release Status

2016-06-17 Thread John Burwell
esting is being done and I am waiting on results. Will STEVENS Lead Developer CloudOps | Cloud Solutions Experts 420 rue Guy | Montreal | Quebec | H3J 1S6 w cloudops.com<http://cloudops.com/> | tw @CloudOps_ On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 1:19 PM, John Burwell mailto:john.burw...@shapeblue.com&

Re: apachecloudstack.net and apachecloudstack.org

2016-06-17 Thread John Burwell
All, I like the idea of a new set of CNAMEs for these services, but I am -1 on the idea of these apachecloudstack.net CNAMEs. Like cloudstack.org, I think that apachecloudstack.[org|net] should point to cloudstack.apache.org. Instead, I suggest that we create them as part of the canonical na

4.9.0 Release Status

2016-06-17 Thread John Burwell
All, What is the status of the 4.9.0 release? Looking at the 4.9.0 JIRA [1], there are 23 open tickets. Do these tickets represent the outstanding work before a RC can be cut? If not, what other tasks remain? Thanks, -John [1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-9417?jql=proj

Re: Introduction

2016-06-17 Thread John Burwell
Welcome to the community, Sanket. > john.burw...@shapeblue.com  www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London VA WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue On Jun 17, 2016, at 6:09 AM, Sanket Thite wrote: > > Hi All, > > I would like to introduce myself to the community. > > I am Sanket Thite and ha

Re: 4.9+ release

2016-06-16 Thread John Burwell
API weren't mentioned in this thread I think they should. >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 1:53 AM, ilya >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I agree and support John's comments below. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> ilya >>

Re: 4.9+ release

2016-06-16 Thread John Burwell
>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 1:53 AM, ilya >> wrote: >> >>> I agree and support John's comments below. >>> >>> Regards >>> ilya >>> >>> On 6/14/16 2:44 PM, John Burwell wrote: >>>> All, >>>>

Re: Release-Management Question about New API Plug-in

2016-06-16 Thread John Burwell
Mike, Anyone can submit a PR against any branch. If they can get 2 LGTMs for it, it will be merged. After that, you could create a new 4.6 RC, and open a vote for it. While there is nothing procedurally that prevents someone from following this process, it is unlikely that the release vote w

Re: [DISCUSS] 5.0.0 and 6.0.0

2016-06-16 Thread John Burwell
ticularly, no. However, this subject is hard to make small. :( > >> Op 15 juni 2016 om 2:39 schreef John Burwell : >> >> >> All, >> >> We have been discussing whether or not the next release would introduce the >> need to increment the major revisio

[DISCUSS] 5.0.0 and 6.0.0

2016-06-14 Thread John Burwell
All, We have been discussing whether or not the next release would introduce the need to increment the major revision number from 4 to 5 (i.e. become 5.0.0). While I think we are very close to the time to have a 5.0.0 release, I don’t think the next release will introduce any backwards compati

Re: 4.9+ release

2016-06-14 Thread John Burwell
All, Completely agree with Daan. Per semantic versioning, a major revision increase must introduce a backwards incompatible change in the public API, removal of one of more supported devices, reduction in the list of supported distributions. I agree that when we require Java8+, drop Ubuntu 12

Re: XenServer 7

2016-06-13 Thread John Burwell
All, Has anyone had a chance to try XenServer 7 since it’s release? If so, does it work? If not, how broken is it? My guess would be in agreement with the general consensus that a change from CentOS 5 to 7 would not only be breaking, but significant. Thanks, -John > john.burw...@shapeblue

Re: ICLA for contributors

2016-06-10 Thread John Burwell
016, at 10:47 AM, Ron Wheeler wrote: > > That is correct from my reading of the Apache page as well. > I think that your definition of committer and contributor is identical to > Apache's. > > > Ron > > On 09/06/2016 3:57 PM, John Burwell wrote: >> All,

Re: ICLA for contributors

2016-06-09 Thread John Burwell
All, I believe Pierre-Luc’s explanation is correct, and that we may have slightly different definitions of contributor and committer. Generally, we define a contributor, we are referring to anyone (committer, PMC member, any person in the world) who contributes code, documentation, etc to the

Re: [DISCUSS] Release Cycle

2016-05-31 Thread John Burwell
AM, John Burwell wrote: > > All, > > Over the course of the last 6-8 months, we have attempted to release monthly. > We successfully delivered 4.6, 4,7, and 4,8 using this model. We also > established a strong set of CM and review principles to improve the quality &

[DISCUSS] Release Cycle

2016-05-30 Thread John Burwell
All, Over the course of the last 6-8 months, we have attempted to release monthly. We successfully delivered 4.6, 4,7, and 4,8 using this model. We also established a strong set of CM and review principles to improve the quality of releases [1]. To support users that are unable to upgrade on

Re: RM after 4.9

2016-05-30 Thread John Burwell
All, I am also willing to be an RM post 4.9, as well as, for LTS. I will be able to serve as an RM through at least the end of 2016. To kickoff the planning process, I have started a release cycle discussion on the list to pin down the schedule for both regular and LTS releases. Thanks, -John

Re: ACS PRs Status - 2016/05/12

2016-05-13 Thread John Burwell
Will, Rohit has built a new systemvm template that includes strongswan and quagga. He can point you to images, as well as, help with understanding the build/release process. Thanks, -John > Regards, John Burwell john.burw...@shapeblue.com  www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Gar

Re: ACS PRs Status - 2016/05/12

2016-05-13 Thread John Burwell
Will, 1371 includes new Marvin test cases to verify the operation of OSPF. Bobby Stoyanov will be running these tests, as well as, manual rating of the UI features added to support it. Thanks, -John > Regards, John Burwell john.burw...@shapeblue.com  www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Pl

Re: [DISCUSS] Moving to Java8

2016-05-13 Thread John Burwell
but within 36-48 hangs or abends. Therefore, the first step to getting a stable build on JDK8 is to ensure that all our dependencies support it. Thanks, -John [1]: https://spring.io/blog/2013/05/21/spring-framework-4-0-m1-3-2-3-available/ > Regards, John Burwell john.burw...@shape

Re: [DISCUSS] Moving to Java8

2016-05-13 Thread John Burwell
Ron, Upon upgrade, we will start using features and runtime classes/methods introduced with Java8. Therefore, it will become mandatory upgrade from Java7 to Java8 when adopting the release with these changes. Thanks, -John > Regards, John Burwell john.burw...@shapeblue.

Re: [DISCUSS] Moving to Java8

2016-05-13 Thread John Burwell
allow a particular distribution’s failure to update their to supported JDK place our user community at risk. Thanks, -John [1]: https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/ubuntu/java [2]: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html > Regards, John Burwell john.b

Re: Organizing CCCNA16 Hackathon

2016-05-09 Thread John Burwell
. Additionally, my hope is that some advance organization and coordination will allow people to participate virtually. Thanks, -John > Regards, John Burwell john.burw...@shapeblue.com  www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London VA WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue On May 5, 2016, at 1

Organizing CCCNA16 Hackathon

2016-05-05 Thread John Burwell
to participate. Thanks, -John [1]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14U0E1YpgZvsBc88SHVojo-XzOLAKs-WFEkMxXlrAl_o/edit#gid=0 [2]: https://support.google.com/hangouts/answer/3111943?hl=en Regards, John Burwell john.burw...@shapeblue.com  www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden

Re: Rafael Weingartner joining the PMC

2016-05-03 Thread John Burwell
Congrats Rafael. > Regards, John Burwell john.burw...@shapeblue.com  www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London VA WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue On May 2, 2016, at 9:21 AM, Rohit Yadav wrote: > > Congrats Rafael. > > Regards, > Rohit Yadav > > >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] New committer: Simon Weller

2016-05-03 Thread John Burwell
Congrats, Simon. > Regards, John Burwell john.burw...@shapeblue.com  www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London VA WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue On May 2, 2016, at 9:21 AM, Rohit Yadav wrote: > > Congrats Simon. > > Regards, > Rohit Yadav > > >

Re: [DISCUSS] Emeritus Committer Status

2016-04-20 Thread John Burwell
rds, John Burwell john.burw...@shapeblue.com  www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London VA WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue On Apr 20, 2016, at 6:11 AM, John Burwell wrote: > > Erik, > > Good question about the mechanics. I agree that removal of accounts would > not be correct.

Re: [DISCUSS] Emeritus Committer Status

2016-04-20 Thread John Burwell
Daan, I disagree with automatically placing someone in emeritus status. I think it is very important that some explicitly requests the status. Thanks, -John > Regards, John Burwell john.burw...@shapeblue.com  www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London VA WC2N 4H

Re: [DISCUSS] Emeritus Committer Status

2016-04-20 Thread John Burwell
manage it. I will send an email to infra asking them how it is managed for other projects and report back to dev@. Thanks, -John > Regards, John Burwell john.burw...@shapeblue.com  www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London VA WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue On Apr 20, 2016, at 4:01

[DISCUSS] Emeritus Committer Status

2016-04-19 Thread John Burwell
tp://cocoon.apache.org/ [4]: http://code.metager.de/source/xref/apache/cocoon/commons/bylaws/bylaws.txt#14 Regards, John Burwell john.burw...@shapeblue.com  www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London VA WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue

Re: Introduction

2016-04-08 Thread John Burwell
Welcome to the community, Rashimi. > Regards, John Burwell john.burw...@shapeblue.com  www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London VA WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue On Apr 8, 2016, at 1:03 PM, Ahmad Emneina wrote: > > Welcome Rashmi, look forward to seeing great cont

Re: [VOTE] Move 'apache/cloudstack' -> 'apache-cloudstack/cloudstack'

2016-03-21 Thread John Burwell
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Re: [IMPORTANT] Huge Github PR Backlog

2016-03-20 Thread John Burwell
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Re: External fork of Cloudstack (was Re: [GitHub] cloudstack pull request: Is the project attempting a fork on Githu...)

2016-03-19 Thread John Burwell
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Re: [PROPOSAL] Minimum Viable CI Integration

2016-03-13 Thread John Burwell
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Re: [PROPOSAL] LTS Release Cycle

2016-03-13 Thread John Burwell
overlapping LTS release is to provide users that require longer update cycles (e.g. 18 months) a bridge to upgrade. Thanks, -John > [ShapeBlue]<http://www.shapeblue.com> John Burwell ShapeBlue d: +44 (20) 3603 0542 | s: +1 (571) 403-2411 e: john.burw...@shapeblu

Re: Results of a IPv6 brainstorm day

2016-03-10 Thread John Burwell
Wido, Curious if you have been able to make any progress on this work. Have you been able to move it forward? If not, what kind of help would you need? Thanks, -John > [ShapeBlue]<http://www.shapeblue.com> John Burwell ShapeBlue d: +44 (20) 3603 0542 | s: +1 (571) 403-

Re: [PROPOSAL] LTS Release Cycle

2016-02-02 Thread John Burwell
All, Based on the feedback from Ilya, Erik, and Daan, I have updated my original LTS proposal to clarify that LTS releases are official project deliverables, commit traceability across branches, and RM approval of PRs: ## START ## Motivation == The current monthly release cycle addres

Re: [ANNOUNCE] New PMC member: Boris Roman Schrijver

2016-01-27 Thread John Burwell
Congrats and welcome, Boris. > [ShapeBlue]<http://www.shapeblue.com> John Burwell ShapeBlue d: +44 (20) 3603 0542 | s: +1 (571) 403-2411 e: john.burw...@shapeblue.com | t: <mailto:john.burw...@shapeblue.com%20|%20t:> | w: www.shapeblue.com<http:/

Re: [DISCUSSION] Collab for Spring 2016

2016-01-27 Thread John Burwell
passive sessions — active collaboration and coding. Thanks, -John > [ShapeBlue]<http://www.shapeblue.com> John Burwell ShapeBlue d: +44 (20) 3603 0542 | s: +1 (571) 403-2411 e: john.burw...@shapeblue.com | t: <mailto:john.burw...@shapeblue.com%20|%20t:&g

Re: Quick note about $dayjob

2016-01-27 Thread John Burwell
Sebastian, Thank you for your years of dedication and leadership. Best of luck with the new company — may many unicorns be in your future. Thanks, -John > [ShapeBlue]<http://www.shapeblue.com> John Burwell ShapeBlue d: +44 (20) 3603 0542 | s: +1 (571) 403-2411 e:

Re: disable github notifications ?

2016-01-27 Thread John Burwell
— further helping me prioritize notifications. Thanks, -John > [ShapeBlue]<http://www.shapeblue.com> John Burwell ShapeBlue d: +44 (20) 3603 0542 | s: +1 (571) 403-2411 e: john.burw...@shapeblue.com | t: <mailto:john.burw...@shapeblue.com%20|%20t:&g

Re: [PROPOSAL] LTS Release Cycle

2016-01-19 Thread John Burwell
believe that the tighter constraints on the defects that are allowed to be backported, a clearly defined policy about the LTS release cycle schedule, and monthly releases will allow us to avoid the mistakes of the past. Thanks, -John > [ShapeBlue]<http://www.shapeblue.com> Joh

Re: [DISCUSS][PROPOSE] use of optional instead of null

2016-01-18 Thread John Burwell
les > > Not sure how to continue from here, except that I think we need to remove > all null returns where objects are expected. > > > On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 1:56 PM, John Burwell > wrote: > >> Daan, >> >> I completely agree that returning null is bad

Re: [PROPOSAL] LTS Release Cycle

2016-01-18 Thread John Burwell
merge pattern to ensure that LTS does not violate or impede the flow of defect fixes on master and maintained monthly releases. Thanks, -John > [ShapeBlue]<http://www.shapeblue.com> John Burwell ShapeBlue d: +44 (20) 3603 0542 | s: +1 (571) 403-2411 e: john.burw...@shap

Re: [PROPOSAL] LTS Release Cycle

2016-01-18 Thread John Burwell
de of LTS. Since this is more around > long term bug/security fix - i'd think - the testing will be minimal, to > the scope that fix applies - which will speed up the release process in > general. What are your thoughts on this? > > > Thanks > ilya > > > > &

Re: [DISCUSS][PROPOSE] use of optional instead of null

2016-01-16 Thread John Burwell
examples, it can be unit tested to ensure the missing case behaves as expected. Thanks, -John [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Object_pattern [2]: https://gist.github.com/jburwell/f5162ad2d2de32c842b3 > [ShapeBlue]<http://www.shapeblue.com> John Burwell ShapeBlue d: +44

[PROPOSAL] LTS Release Cycle

2016-01-15 Thread John Burwell
yield releases that meet the needs of users requiring release stability without adversely affecting the velocity of the monthly release cycle. Thanks, -John [1]: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html [ShapeBlue]<http://www.shapeblue.com> John Burwell ShapeBlue d: +

Re: LTS release or not

2016-01-13 Thread John Burwell
most, if not all, of the points discussed on this thread. Hopefully, we will quickly gain consensus on an LTS release cycle, and begin doing the work necessary to deliver high quality LTS releases. Thanks, -John > [ShapeBlue]<http://www.shapeblue.com> John Burwell ShapeBlue d:

Re: Let’s discuss database upgrades

2016-01-03 Thread John Burwell
All, I completely agree with Wido that the notion of the ACS version (e.g. 4.6.0, 4.6.1, 4.7.0, etc) should be a purely logical concept. It points to particular git hash, a version of the database schema, etc. I also agree that supporting downgrade is a fools errand as many database schema ch

Re: [DISCUSS] Move to Github

2016-01-03 Thread John Burwell
additional gaps between JIRA and Github Issues functionality as Github Issues is an extremely simplistic ticking system. For these reasons, I am -1 on moving to Github Issues. Thanks, -John > [ShapeBlue]<http://www.shapeblue.com> John Burwell ShapeBlue d: +44 (20) 3603 0542 | s: +1

Re: [DISCUSS] KVM HA with IPMI Fencing

2015-12-10 Thread John Burwell
control plane. I think it would be best to decompose the effort into four parts — Host Power Management, HA Resource Management Service, KVM Host HA Provider, and management server clustering improvements. Thoughts? -John [1]: https://github.com/shevek/ipmi4j [ShapeBlue]<http://www.shapeblu

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