Howdy Openstack, First of all, I apologize for the double post. Please respond on the openstack mailing list and not directly to me. Also, most of this applies specifically to nova. Swift is a much more mature project, and has already accomplished much of what is discussed in the email.
As most of you know we are nearing the major milestone of our second release, Bexar. This is a major accomplishment and I want to thank everyone who participated in any way. Now it is time to start to turn our focus to the upcoming Cactus release cycle. In Bexar was a feature release. We pushed lots of new features. The focus of Nova development in Cactus is going to be testing and stabilization. This does not mean that we will not be adding new features. In cactus, I expect that many of the features that just missed arriving in the Bexar release will land, such as Live Migration. I also expect us to achieve feature parity with the Rackspace Cloud servers API. What we really mean by a stabilization and testing focus is that we will have a large portion of our developers focused on testing. We will also avoid major disruptive changes that could compromise our stability efforts. That means: * We will be much tougher in approving blueprints. Many will be deferred or rejected. * If a feature's development is going slow, we will quickly make a decision to defer it to Diablo. * We will be much tougher in our code reviews. * Branches need to land early. Do not expect exceptions to the "Branch Merge Proposal Freeze" * We will also be instituting new policies that ensure we maintain quality. * We will focus on creating a multi-server integrated testing environment, with external hooks for things we cannot test. If you have features that you intend to land in Cactus it is extremely important that you you propose them by the deadline of February 3rd. It will be extremely difficult to get an exception this release. The Cactus release schedule is here: http://wiki.openstack.org/CactusReleaseSchedule Cheers, Rick Clark Project Lead
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