Hi,

It's been 2 weeks since the last status update, so here's the latest:

  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenStack_status_report_2012-04-04

Historical archives are here:

  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenStack_status_reports

Cheers,
Pádraig.

(appended below for convenience)

OpenStack status report 2012-04-04

= Fedora OpenStack Projects =

First of all, a handy link worth bookmarking is from the preview "Fedora 
Packages" service,
which gives a handy way to drill down to details and status of all the 
[https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/s/openstack Fedora OpenStack projects]

= OpenStack Folsom Design Summit and Conference =

== Fedora Booth ==

The [[OpenStackSummitConf April2012|OpenStack Folsom Design Summit and 
Conference]] is taking place April 16-20 and Fedora will have a booth at the 
conference. We are preparing some 
[[Cloud_Marketing_Collateral/OpenStack_in_Fedora| Fedora marketing collateral]] 
for the event.

== Design Summit ==

The schedule for the Folsom Design Summit is being prepared at 
[http://summit.openstack.org summit.openstack.org] and the following proposals 
have been submitted by Fedora contributors:

* [http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/46 Dependency management design]
* [http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/56 Common configuration patterns]
* [http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/29 Stable branch maintenance]
* [http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/28 openstack-common library]
* [http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/78 Glance backend storage 
capabilities]
* [http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/66 Smoke testing realistic 
deployment]
* [http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/95 Versioning the Nova RPC APIs]
* [http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/113 Resource rationing in Glance]

= OpenStack Security Issues =

Dan Prince identified two security issues:

# [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-1585 CVE-2012-1585 Long 
server names grow nova-api log files significantly] (public Thursday, March 
29th, 1500UTC)
# [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-1572 CVE-2012-1572 
Extremely long passwords can crash Keystone] (public Tuesday, March 27th, 
1500UTC)

These were promptly addressed through Russell Bryant on the 
[http://openstack.org/projects/openstack-security/ OpenStack Vulnerability 
Management Team].

We have now fully documented [[OpenStack vulnerability management|the process 
for handling and releasing security updates for OpenStack in Fedora]].

= Fedora 17 Updates =

== Getting Started guide ==

[[Getting started with OpenStack on Fedora 17|Testing OpenStack Essex on Fedora 
17]] continues, with the setup
instructions being kept up to date, and improved. For example, Cole Robinson 
updated the instructions to use OpenStack commands rather than euca2ools.

== Release Candidate packages ==

Alan Pevec made a 
[http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/apevec/openstack-preview/fedora-17/ Fedora 
17 preview repo] available for providing the latest openstack packages 
irrespective of release freeze scheduling.

Fedora 17 has currently got Essex RC1 releases of Nova, Glance, Keystone, 
Quantum, and Swift 1.4.8 available. With the emphasis on testing and fixing 
before the final release there have been subsequent upstream fixes:

* 
[https://review.openstack.org/#q,project:openstack/nova+branch:milestone-proposed,n,z
 nova milestone-proposed changes]
* 
[https://review.openstack.org/#q,project:openstack/glance+branch:milestone-proposed,n,z
 glance milestone-proposed changes]
* 
[https://review.openstack.org/#q,project:openstack/keystone+branch:milestone-proposed,n,z
 keystone milestone-proposed changes]
* 
[https://review.openstack.org/#q,project:openstack/quantum+branch:milestone-proposed,n,z
 quantum milestone-proposed changes]

Other updates not included in the above lists are, for example, 
[https://review.openstack.org/5606 a fix to support libvirt images on 
GlusterFS].

The final Essex releases with the above fixes are being prepared and tested. 
Subsequent updates may also be included in the Fedora packages like:

* [https://review.openstack.org/5910 Eoghan Glynn's quota headroom reporting]
* [https://review.openstack.org/#change,6164 Fix nova issue with 
--libvirt_nonblocking]

Alan Pevec has been polishing Swift packages, in conjunction with testing from 
Derek Higgins:

* 
[http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=openstack-swift.git;a=commitdiff;h=6a53f5b1
 support for multiple swift instances]
* 
[http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=openstack-swift.git;a=commitdiff;h=dae45a61
 add man pages]
* [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/807170 additional init scripts]
* [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/807179 include default configs]
* [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/809198 SELinux issues]

== Other updates ==

The python-eventlet package used by OpenStack was 
[http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=python-eventlet.git;a=blob;f=dummythread_leak.patch;hb=HEAD
 updated to fix resource leaks].

Fedora specific changes have been made too, including:

* [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/805947 Fix process restarting with systemd and 
KillMode=process]
* Glance switched to MySQL by default rather than sqlite

Following on from OpenStack test day observations, SELinux fixes have been 
included to support new OpenStack services:

* [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/760054 policy for quantum]
* [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/801352 policy for nova-cert]

= Misc News =

Russell Bryant has continued to [[OpenStack devstack|work on Fedora support in 
devstack]], which is a script to setup openstack services for development on a 
single node. Adam Young then 
[http://adam.younglogic.com/2012/03/fedora-16-devstack/ documented his use of 
devstack] to setup his environment.

A couple of new Fedora OpenStack packagers have joined, 
[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/view/gkotton Gary Kotton 
(gkotton)] and [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/view/rackerjoe 
Joe Breu (rackerjoe)].

Lorin Hochstein [https://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals/commit/e556012c 
updated the upstream OpenStack manuals] to include information on Fedora 
"Virtual Machine" images.

Finally, There were a couple of blogs relating to OpenStack and Fedora:

* [http://adam.younglogic.com/2012/03/shared-nothing-diskless-boot/ Shared 
Nothing Diskless Boot]
* 
[http://saiweb.co.uk/openstack/rhel-6-openstack-via-epel-nova-and-glance-on-kvm/
 RHEL 6 Openstack via EPEL Nova and Glance on KVM]
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