Re: [ANNOUNCE] New PMC Chair & VP Apache CloudStack Project - Daniel Salvador

[Giles Sirett]

Many thanks for your hard work Rohit 

Congratulations Daniel - wishing you all luck in your new role 

Kind Regards
Giles


 

> On 21 Mar 2024, at 14:45, Rohit Yadav  wrote:
> 
> 
> All,
> 
> It gives me great pleasure to announce that the ASF board has accepted 
> CloudStack PMC resolution of Daniel Augusto Veronezi Salvador as the next PMC 
> Chair / VP of the Apache CloudStack project.
> 
> I would like to thank everyone for the support I've received over the past 
> year.
> 
> Please join me in congratulating Daniel, the new CloudStack PMC Chair / VP.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Rohit Yadav

RE: [VOTE] next version 20 instead of 4.20

[Giles Sirett]

IMO - they are two different subjects. 
Everybody hopes that we'd never break API compatibility, but there may be a 
situation at some point in the future where it may be required and we 
fundamentally cant take a decision now that limits what the community may want 
to do in 10 years time.  Irrespective of what numbering scheme is being used, 
that would still be a massive decision to make *at the time* and I'd expect a 
vibrant debate on doing so


Yes, semantic is a well know agreed standard: giving consistency across lots of 
different software - but there is absolutely nothing to say that CloudStack HAS 
to stick to that convention (arguably, by removing the "4." , we're coming away 
from that standard anyway)  Lots of software doesn’t use semantic release 
versioning at all. 

As long as we have a consistent versioning scheme and are clear about it - it 
doesn’t matter what scheme we use IMO

As Paul says the "X" in X.Y.Z is  usually used as a simple way  to warn of API 
disruptive changes  - but that warning can be given in other ways (in 
documentation , a compatibility matrix, etc)  *If* it ever happened, we would 
be using the first number for bothand  



Kind Regards
Giles

 


-Original Message-
From: Rohit Yadav  
Sent: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 4:54 AM
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: [VOTE] next version 20 instead of 4.20

Daniel, Daan, others,

Could you explain why you’d break CloudStack’s rest-like APIs? Isn’t the 
intention of dropping the 4. as we may never see a 5.x that involves major 
changes involving API incompatibility?

Regards.
 



From: Guto Veronezi 
Sent: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 4:00:30 AM
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org 
Subject: Re: [VOTE] next version 20 instead of 4.20

> By agreeing to drop the "4" I think we're effectively voting and agreeing 
> that we'll not be breaking APIs.
That is not what was discussed in the thread [1]. If we agree that we will not 
break APIs, I am -1 on dropping the "4". We need to create a protocol along 
with the proposal, otherwise, we will be subjective about the topic and will be 
agreeing on something for different reasons.

[1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/yxxjzov5dqrfsogth6kcq2r0wn8rzljv

On 3/5/24 15:10, Paul Angus wrote:
> Hi Rohit, thank you
>
> So to recap;
>
> Semantic versioning goes (in our use):
>  .  .  
> . 
>
> And as I understand it you're looking to go
>
>  .  .  Starting from 
> 20
>
> I'd ask the question - are there any big/disruptive changes people 
> would want to bundle together to keep the semantic versioning and move 
> to 5.x.y.z
>
> I'm assuming not, so the move proposed is to drop semantic versioning and 
> continue from 20, understanding that we would lose the mechanism to warn of 
> very disruptive changes (for what it's worth).
>
> I've no objection to it.  The issue was, that reading the thread, people had 
> different takes on what the change was, what would it do and what it meant. 
> And also incorrect understandings of semantic versioning.
>
> So, to be pedantic, and have a clearly defined vote, I'd change the 
> vote to something like "Drop semantic versioning and continue from 
> 20".  And include your explanation about moving to 
>  .  . 
>
> I would be ok to +1 that ^^^
>
> -paul
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Rohit Yadav 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 4:02 PM
> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org; us...@cloudstack.apache.org
> Subject: Re: [VOTE] next version 20 instead of 4.20
>
> As I understand Daan's vote proposal and from the previous discussion thread, 
> the current scheme that results in a release like 4.20.x.y would simply 
> become 20.a.b, wherein "a" is for maintenance release (counter, starting with 
> 0) and "b" is only used for security releases (counter, starting with 0).
>
> The voting thread is about "deciding to drop the 4 from our versioning 
> scheme", wherein the next CloudStack version would become "20" instead of 
> "4.20". By agreeing to drop the "4" I think we're effectively voting and 
> agreeing that we'll not be breaking APIs. Some other opensource projects have 
> done something similar too. Of course, this needs to be properly explained 
> and documented both by a blog article and on the project wiki.
>
> Paul - are you satisfied with the explanations and discussions, are you still 
> blocking this vote thead or do you want to reconsider your vote?
>
>
> Regards.
>
>
>
>
> 
> From: Paul Angus 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2024 15:55
> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org 
> Cc: us...@cloudstack.apache.org 
> Subject: RE: [VOTE] next version 20 instead of 4.20
>
> Hi Daan,
>
>
>  From our wiki page:
>
> -- Quote
> For those that may not be familiar with Semantic Versioning, the number 
> format is: X.Y.Z, where X is the major version, Y is the minor version, Z is 
> the patch number. The community strives to ensure backward API compatibility 
> within each major version (i.e.: code 

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Apache CloudStack 4.19.0.0 LTS Release

[Giles Sirett]

That's great news - well done Abhishek and everybody involved 

Kind Regards
Giles

 


-Original Message-
From: Rohit Yadav  
Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2024 12:53 PM
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Apache CloudStack 4.19.0.0 LTS Release

Congratulations everyone! Great work Abhishek and everyone involved in the 
release work.


Regards.

 



From: Abhishek Kumar 
Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2024 17:06
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org 
Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Apache CloudStack 4.19.0.0 LTS Release

The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache CloudStack Project Announces 
Apache(r) CloudStack(r) v4.19.

Apache CloudStack 4.19 is the most recent release of the cloud management 
platform. It comes as a product of extensive contributions from the development 
community and is a LTS release, guaranteeing ongoing maintenance and support 
for a period of 18 months

The 4.19 release contains 314 new features, improvements and bug fixes since 
4.18, 26 of these being major features.

Some of the highlighted features include:

- VMware to KVM Migration

- KVM Import

- CloudStack Object Storage

- CloudStack DRS

- VNF Appliances Support

- Scheduled Instance Lifecycle Operations

- OAuth 2 Authentication

- CloudStack Snapshot Copy

The full list of new features can be found in the project release notes at:
https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.19.0.0/releasenotes


The CloudStack documentation includes upgrade instructions from previous 
versions of Apache CloudStack, and can be found at:
https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.19.0.0/upgrading

The official installation, administration and API documentation for each of the 
releases are available on our documentation page:
https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.19.0.0/installguide

Downloads

The official source code for the 4.19.0.0 release can be downloaded from our 
downloads page: https://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html

In addition to the official source code release, individual contributors have 
also made convenience binaries available on the Apache CloudStack download 
page, and can be found at:

- https://download.cloudstack.org/el/7/

- https://download.cloudstack.org/el/8/

- https://download.cloudstack.org/el/9/

- https://download.cloudstack.org/ubuntu/dists/

- https://www.shapeblue.com/cloudstack-packages/


Regards,

Abhishek

RE: [DISCUSS] New Design for the Apache CloudStack Website

[Giles Sirett]

Hi Ivet – thanks for pushing forward with this – excited to review a new design.

On that note, I cant see a link in your mail ☹

Kind Regards
Giles

From: Ivet Petrova 
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2023 10:14 AM
To: us...@cloudstack.apache.org; Marketing 
Cc: dev 
Subject: [DISCUSS] New Design for the Apache CloudStack Website

Hello,

I would like to start a discussion on the design of the Apache CloudStack 
Website and to propose a new design for it.

As we all know, the website has not been changed for years in terms of design 
and information. The biggest issue we know we have is that the website is not 
showing the full potential of CloudStack. In addition to it during discussions 
with many community members, I have noted the following issues:
- the existing website design is old-school
- the current homepage does not collect enough information to show CloudStack's 
strengths
- current website design is missing images from the ACS UI and cannot create a 
feel for the product in the users
- the website has issues on a mobile device
- we lack any graphic and diagrams
- some important information like how to download is not very visible

I collected a lot of feedback during last months and want to propose a new up 
to date design for the website, which is attached below. The new design will 
bring:
- improved UX
- look and feel corresponding to the CloudStack's capabilities and strengths
- more graphical elements, diagrams
- better branding
- more important information, easily accessible for the potential users

I hope you will like the new design – all feedback welcome. Once we have the 
design finalised, we will use Rohit’s proposal previously of a CMS, which is 
easy to edit.

[cid:B5517475-02DA-472A-BD1D-F3B600AD28ED]

Kind regards,






 

RE: [proposal] Consistency of naming in Cloudstack

[Giles Sirett]

Hi Daan - thanks for your input. Some comments inline below



Kind Regards
Giles

 


-Original Message-
From: Daan Hoogland  
Sent: Thursday, June 8, 2023 4:17 PM
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: [proposal] Consistency of naming in Cloudstack

Giles, the principle of what you are saying seems good but I have a few 
remarks; 1. Consistency should not become a goal. Clarity is and if context 
might give rise to a different understanding of the same work consistency is 
detrimental to understanding 

>> I *think* I understand your point, but I see high correlation between  
>> consistency of naming and clarity. Surely, using different names (or 
>> metaphors!) for the same object type inherently reduces clarity?. Could you 
>> give an example of where using different names for one cloudstack object 
>> type could increase clarity ?



2. Metaphor is an important aspect in system development [1] first introduced 
into software development in xtreme programming [2] I think instance is a bad 
metaphor to use for Virtual Machine Instances in a system that is full of all 
kinds of items (first class citizens) that can also be seen as instances. I 
would go for "VM instance", "VM-instance" or just machines. I am not saying 
either of these are ideal but they are all better than instance.

>>To be clear here: this would involve renaming every UI element to 
>>standardise. Would you propose renaming the current main menu & lifecycle 
>>commands  to one of these names ?

and finally
3. The industry standard is not a good reason to go for a term. we can improve 
on the industry standard and so we should.

>> We'll have to agree to disagree on that
€0.02

[1] 
https://medium.com/swlh/the-importance-of-metaphors-in-programming-philosophy-and-trading-a0030ed176b6
[2] http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/metaphor.html

On Thu, Jun 8, 2023 at 4:47 PM Giles Sirett  wrote:
>
> Background
> Recently, I have been looking at a  number of issues relating to the 
> "first use" / "first impression" use of cloudstack.  What to people 
> think of Cloudstack as a new user? What is peoples perception of 
> Cloudstack as a new user ? How easy is it for people to understand 
> cloudstack & its concepts and to get help
>
>
> One thing I have seen is that CloudStack is inconsistent with what we call 
> VM's/Instances:
>
>
>   *   In the UI main menu, we say Instances. We then have a very large 
> "Create instance" button. All lifecycle operations are then  "Foo Instance"
>   *   In various other places in the UI (many text messages, error messages,  
> column headers,  for example) we say "VM"
>   *   The API uses Instance, VM and Virtual Machine
>   *   The documentation, again, uses all 3 terms
>
> Now - I know everybody on this list (myself included for the last 10 
> years) has always used these terms interchangeably  - we all KNOW that 
> these are the same things. However, I think it could cause confusion 
> to people seeing Cloudstack for the first time and create negative 
> impressions. Also, there is no consistency when searching 
> documentation - one page uses one term, one the other (and some even 
> use both on the same page) .  I don't know of many other pieces of 
> software that use 2/3 different names for their  primary functional 
> object
>
>
> My proposal is to move towards having consistency of this naming  and would 
> look something like this:
>
>
>   1.  Choose the name to use going forwards (more on that later)
>   2.  Undertake a remedial exercise:
>  *   Update UI elements to [new name]
>  *   Update documentation to [New Name]
>  *   Leave Global Settings names  alone, but change their description to 
> reflect [New Name]
>  *   Leave the API alone - theres no way of getting consistency there 
> without breaking compatibility
>   3.  Encourage contributors to use [new name] in all work going 
> forwards
>
>
> The remedial exercise (hopefully) could be a find/replace (with some 
> manual checking)  - I'd be happy to take that on with some help from work 
> colleagues As/when/if  we do do Cloudstack 5.0, then look at the API, but IMO 
> this is lower priority as people that's not usdually "first impression"
>
>
> So - first proposal  point: any objections to me undertaking this work ?
>
>
> Second point: what to call these things ?
> It is my view that we should call them Instances.  These are my reasons:
>
>   *   Nearly all Cloud computing platforms refer to them as instances (i.e. 
> industry standard) . Yes, it is a VM "behind the scenes", but Instance is an 
> accepted term that is slightly abstracted from VM
>   *   Our primary UI 

[proposal] Consistency of naming in Cloudstack

[Giles Sirett]

Background
Recently, I have been looking at a  number of issues relating to the "first 
use" / "first impression" use of cloudstack.  What to people think of 
Cloudstack as a new user? What is peoples perception of Cloudstack as a new 
user ? How easy is it for people to understand cloudstack & its concepts and to 
get help


One thing I have seen is that CloudStack is inconsistent with what we call 
VM's/Instances:


  *   In the UI main menu, we say Instances. We then have a very large "Create 
instance" button. All lifecycle operations are then  "Foo Instance"
  *   In various other places in the UI (many text messages, error messages,  
column headers,  for example) we say "VM"
  *   The API uses Instance, VM and Virtual Machine
  *   The documentation, again, uses all 3 terms

Now - I know everybody on this list (myself included for the last 10 years) has 
always used these terms interchangeably  - we all KNOW that these are the same 
things. However, I think it could cause confusion to people seeing Cloudstack 
for the first time and create negative impressions. Also, there is no 
consistency when searching documentation - one page uses one term, one the 
other (and some even use both on the same page) .  I don't know of many other 
pieces of software that use 2/3 different names for their  primary functional 
object


My proposal is to move towards having consistency of this naming  and would 
look something like this:


  1.  Choose the name to use going forwards (more on that later)
  2.  Undertake a remedial exercise:
 *   Update UI elements to [new name]
 *   Update documentation to [New Name]
 *   Leave Global Settings names  alone, but change their description to 
reflect [New Name]
 *   Leave the API alone - theres no way of getting consistency there 
without breaking compatibility
  3.  Encourage contributors to use [new name] in all work going forwards


The remedial exercise (hopefully) could be a find/replace (with some manual 
checking)  - I'd be happy to take that on with some help from work colleagues
As/when/if  we do do Cloudstack 5.0, then look at the API, but IMO this is 
lower priority as people that's not usdually "first impression"


So - first proposal  point: any objections to me undertaking this work ?


Second point: what to call these things ?
It is my view that we should call them Instances.  These are my reasons:

  *   Nearly all Cloud computing platforms refer to them as instances (i.e. 
industry standard) . Yes, it is a VM "behind the scenes", but Instance is an 
accepted term that is slightly abstracted from VM
  *   Our primary UI already uses Instance ns most prominent places, renaming  
top level nav and functionality is a step backwards IMO
  *   Today, Cloudstack provides these through VMs , but that could change in 
the future (please don't read anything into that comment) - instance doesn't 
tie us to VMs (which is probably why most cloud providers use it)

So, my proposal is to bring consistency and use the term Instance

>From brief discussions, I know other people favour other terms and may have 
>objections to the term Instance (despite it having been in use in ACS for many 
>years)  - but happy to take all inputs if people feel this is just wrong.





Kind Regards
Giles


 

RE: [VOTE] CloudStack Project Blog Migration

[Giles Sirett]

+1 (binding)

Thanks for all your work on this Rohit

Kind Regards
Giles

 


-Original Message-
From: Wei ZHOU  
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2023 11:14 AM
To: us...@cloudstack.apache.org; dev@cloudstack.apache.org; Rohit Yadav 

Subject: Re: [VOTE] CloudStack Project Blog Migration

+1 (binding)

Great job @Rohit Yadav 

-Wei



On Wed, 17 May 2023 at 10:58, Rohit Yadav  wrote:

> All,
>
> The ASF-infra had announced a hard deadline [0][1] to decommission our 
> project’s Roller based blog [3] on the 31st May 2023.
>
> For the blog migration, ASF-infra has exported CloudStack blog posts 
> from the current Roller’s database-backed infra to markdown files.
> These were put together in cloudstack-www repository’s 
> docusauras-staging branch [2] with Docusauras used as a 
> static-site-generator and a GitHub Actions workflow to automate 
> publishing a staging site for your testing and review [4].
>
> The staging site that migrates both the website and blog isn’t 
> completely ready to meet the hard deadline, so this vote is proposed 
> for only migrating the blog before the deadline and continue efforts 
> to migrate to a new website [2][4] when we're ready in the near 
> future.
>
> The following is put for voting:
>
> 1. By the end of 31st May ’23, ASF-infra will decommission the project 
> blog at https://blogs.apache.org/cloudstack and for now we proceed 
> with only the blog migration before this deadline.
>
> 2. The old blog URL/pages from
> https://blogs.apache.org/cloudstack/ will be 
> redirected to https://cloudstack.apache.org/blog/.
> This will be done by the ASF-infra.
>
> 3. The blog content is copied to the "content/blog" directory of the 
> asf-site branch in the https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-www
> repository [6], published at https://cloudstack.apache.org/blog/.
>
> The vote will be open until we reach a lazy consensus.
>
> For sanity in tallying the vote, can PMC members please be sure to 
> indicate "(binding)" with their vote?
>
> [ ] +1  approve
> [ ] +0  no opinion
> [ ] -1  disapprove (and the reason why)
>
> [0] https://markmail.org/message/o5pse33cgriebsrg
> [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/hfhzochhmqhd32tclgc47d5nk90jxmb2
> [2] 
> https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-www/tree/docusaurus-staging/blog
> [3] https://blogs.apache.org/cloudstack/
> [4] https://cloudstack.staged.apache.org/
> [5] https://cloudstack.apache.org/bylaws.html
> [6]
> https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-www/commit/651ec3ad9a3f524a5ce1bb
> 9d6943856f57e638e3
>
> Regards.
>

RE: CCC Agenda and Speakers are Now Live!

[Giles Sirett]

That is a fantastic looking agenda Ivet - great to see so many people with 
varied talks. Super excited for CCC

 

Kind Regards
Giles

 


-Original Message-
From: Ivet Petrova  
Sent: 10 October 2022 08:24
To: us...@cloudstack.apache.org; dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Cc: Apache CloudStack Marketing 
Subject: CCC Agenda and Speakers are Now Live!

Hello all,

I am excited to share that we just published the agenda for the CloudStack 
Collaboration Conference 2022!
You can review all speakers and sessions here: 
https://www.cloudstackcollab.org/#schedule

Thanks to all speakers who submitted their talks and all great sponsors who 
help us to build this awesome in-person event!
If you still have not registered, please do it here: 
https://events.hubilo.com/cloudstack-collaboration-conference-2022/register

We will be excited to meet you either personally in Sofia, Bulgaria or 
virtually!

Kind regards,


 

RE: [ANNOUCE] Apache CloudStack 4.17.1.0 LTS Release

[Giles Sirett]

Well done Abhishek and all involved



Kind Regards
Giles

 


-Original Message-
From: Abhishek Kumar  
Sent: 27 September 2022 08:37
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: [ANNOUCE] Apache CloudStack 4.17.1.0 LTS Release

# Apache CloudStack LTS Maintenance Release 4.17.1.0

The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the release of CloudStack 
4.17.1.0.
The CloudStack 4.17.1.0 release is a maintenance release as part of its 4.17.x 
LTS branch and contains more than 150 fixes and improvements since the 
CloudStack 4.17.0.0 release.

Highlights include:

* Support for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS as management server and KVM host
* Improvements for System VM storage migration on KVM
* CKS cluster upgrade enhancements
* Several network and VPC related fixes especially related IPv6 and permissions
* KVM libvirt Java library upgrade
* KVM Shared Mount Point fix
* VMware local storage volume migration improvements

CloudStack LTS branches are supported for 18 months and will receive updates 
for the first 12 months and only security updates in the last 6 months.

Apache CloudStack is an integrated Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) software 
platform that allows users to build feature-rich public and private cloud 
environments. CloudStack includes an intuitive user interface and rich API for 
managing the compute, networking, software, and storage resources. The project 
became an Apache top-level project in March, 2013.

More information about Apache CloudStack can be found at:
https://cloudstack.apache.org/

# Documentation

What's new in  CloudStack 4.17.1.0:
https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.17.1.0/releasenotes/about.html

The 4.17.1.0 release notes include a full list of issues fixed, as well as 
upgrade instructions from previous versions of Apache CloudStack, and can be 
found at:
https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.17.1.0/releasenotes/

The official installation, administration, and API documentation for each of 
the releases are available on our documentation page:
https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/

# Downloads

The official source code for the 4.17.1.0 release can be downloaded from our 
downloads page:
https://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html

In addition to the official source code release, individual contributors have 
also made convenience binaries available on the Apache CloudStack download 
page, and can be found at:

https://download.cloudstack.org/el/7/
https://download.cloudstack.org/el/8/
https://download.cloudstack.org/suse/15
https://download.cloudstack.org/ubuntu/dists/
https://www.shapeblue.com/packages/

RE: Introduction

[Giles Sirett]

Welcome Jamie !!

Kind Regards
Giles

 


-Original Message-
From: Will Stevens  
Sent: 12 May 2022 15:33
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: Introduction

Great to have you supporting.  Welcome Jamie...

Cheers,

*Will Stevens*
Chief Technology Officer
t 514.447.3456 x1301




On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 10:23 AM Jamie Pell 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've recently started working with Ivet and helping her out with some 
> of the community marketing for the CloudStack community - so just 
> wanted to say hi to everybody.
>
> Ivet has recently gone on maternity leave so I'm going to be 
> interacting on the mailing lists regularly now. I'm very much looking 
> forward to getting to know some of the great members of the community 
> and am open to any guidance anybody may have for me. I'm going to be 
> picking up organising of CCC this year amongst other tasks.
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
>
>

RE: [ANNOUNCE] Next PMC Chair & VP Apache CloudStack Project - Simon Weller

[Giles Sirett]

Many Congratulations Simon

Gabriel - thank you so much for your hard work over the last year - you'll be a 
difficult act to follow!!

Kind Regards
Giles

 


-Original Message-
From: Nicolas Vazquez  
Sent: 17 March 2022 12:45
To: us...@cloudstack.apache.org; dev 
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Next PMC Chair & VP Apache CloudStack Project - Simon 
Weller

Congratulations Simon! And thanks Gabriel for your great work!

Regards,
Nicolas Vazquez

From: Gabriel Beims Bräscher 
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2022 6:55:26 AM
To: users ; dev 
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Next PMC Chair & VP Apache CloudStack Project - Simon Weller

Hello, all CloudStack community!

It gives me great pleasure to announce that the ASF board last night accepted 
our PMC's nomination of Simon Weller as the next PMC Chair / VP of the Apache 
CloudStack project.

I would like to thank everyone for the support I've received over the past year.
It was a great honor being the PMC Chair of this amazing project/community!

To Simon, my sincere congratulations, and I wish you success in the new role!
Very well deserved!

Please join me in congratulating Simon, the CloudStack PMC Chair / VP.

Best Regards,
Gabriel Bräscher.

 

RE: [ANNOUNCE] New committer: Slavka Peleva

[Giles Sirett]

Congratulations Slavka - much deserved

Kind Regards
Giles

 


-Original Message-
From: Paul Angus  
Sent: 03 January 2022 19:49
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCE] New committer: Slavka Peleva

Congrats Slavka.

Kind Regards


Paul Angus

-Original Message-
From: Pearl d'Silva 
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2021 4:42 AM
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] New committer: Slavka Peleva

Congratulations Slavka!

Regards,
Pearl Dsilva

From: Nicolas Vazquez 
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2021 1:01 AM
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org 
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] New committer: Slavka Peleva

Congratulations Slavka!

Regards,
Nicolas Vazquez

From: Gabriel Beims Bräscher 
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2021 9:48:40 AM
To: dev 
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] New committer: Slavka Peleva

The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache CloudStack has invited Slavka 
Peleva to become a committer and we are pleased to announce that she has 
accepted.

Slavka has shown commitment to the Apache CloudStack community, contributing 
with technical discussions in mailing lists, proposing features, reviewing & 
testing PRs, creating PRs, resulting in relevant contributions merged in the 
upstream.

Being a committer enables easier contribution to the project since there is no 
need to go via the patch submission process. This should enable better 
productivity.
A PMC member helps manage and guide the direction of the project.

Let´s congratulate and welcome Slavka, Apache CloudStack's newest committer.

--
Gabriel Beims Bräscher
Apache CloudStack PMC Chair




 

RE: [ANNOUNCE] New committer: Ivet Petrova

[Giles Sirett]

Congratulations Ivet - much deserved

Kind Regards
Giles

 


-Original Message-
From: Paul Angus  
Sent: 03 January 2022 19:49
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCE] New committer: Ivet Petrova

Congratulations Ivet!

Kind Regards


Paul Angus

-Original Message-
From: Pearl d'Silva 
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2021 4:41 AM
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] New committer: Ivet Petrova

Congratulations Ivet!

Regards,
Pearl Dsilva

From: Nicolas Vazquez 
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2021 1:00 AM
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org 
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] New committer: Ivet Petrova

Congratulations Ivet!

Regards,
Nicolas Vazquez

From: Gabriel Beims Bräscher 
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2021 9:48:11 AM
To: dev 
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] New committer: Ivet Petrova

The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache CloudStack has invited Ivet 
Petrova to become a committer and we are pleased to announce that she has 
accepted.

Ivet has shown commitment to the Apache CloudStack community. Ivet has been 
contributing to discussions related to marketing and community development, 
organizing events, social media posts, interviews, videos, etc.

Being a committer enables easier contribution to the project since there is no 
need to go via the patch submission process. This should enable better 
productivity.
A PMC member helps manage and guide the direction of the project.

Let´s congratulate and welcome Ivet, Apache CloudStack's newest committer.

--
Gabriel Beims Bräscher
Apache CloudStack PMC Chair




 

RE: [RESULT][VOTE] Apache CloudStack 4.16.0.0

[Giles Sirett]

Well done everybody  

Kind Regards
Giles

 


-Original Message-
From: Rohit Yadav  
Sent: 10 November 2021 09:17
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org; users 
Subject: Re: [RESULT][VOTE] Apache CloudStack 4.16.0.0

Fantastic, thanks for the RM work Nicolas, and all voters. Congrats everyone!

Regards.

From: Nicolas Vazquez 
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 7:03:07 AM
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org ; users 

Subject: [RESULT][VOTE] Apache CloudStack 4.16.0.0

Hi All,

The vote for CloudStack 4.16.0.0 *passes* with
3 PMC + 5 non-PMC votes.

+1 (PMC / binding)
3 persons (Rohit, Boris, Nicolas)

+1 (non binding)
5 persons (Abhishek, Suresh, Daniel, Vladimir, Marco)

0
none

-1
none

Thanks to everyone participating.

I will help Ivet prepare the release announcement campaign for the 15th of 
November.

Regards,
Nicolas Vazquez





 

RE: CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2021 (9-12 November) - Call For Speakers

[Giles Sirett]

Hi Ivet - this is great - thank you for getting this going. As much as I'd 
prefer to actually *see* everybody, an online conference is a very good second 
best



Great to see the CFP open already. However, I notice that there's no deadline 
on the CFP - from experience we need a deadline to focus people  . I'd suggest 
a deadline in September



In terms of sifting and selecting the talks (which we can only do once the 
deadline is passed) , I'm happy to help. In previous years we've set up a small 
committee formed of PMC members (although there is no specific requirement to 
do so)  - I'm happy to work with the PMC to build a similar group for this year 
- would you like me to do that ?



Kind regards

Giles



Kind regards
Giles

From: Ivet Petrova 
Sent: 16 July 2021 11:20
To: us...@cloudstack.apache.org; dev@cloudstack.apache.org; Apache CloudStack 
Marketing 
Subject: CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2021 (9-12 November) - Call For 
Speakers

Hello everyone,

I am happy to announce that our community will organise the CloudStack 
Collaboration Conference as a Virtual Event.
The event will happen from 9th of November to 12th of November 2021.
We will work to update the website and do an online registration, which will be 
announced in the next several weeks.

Meanwhile, I would like to announce a Call for Speakers. Bellow you can find a 
form, where you can submit your talk. The agenda is vital for our event 
success. At this event we target to collect a wider audience of people, who are 
users, but also companies, which consider what cloud orchestration to use 
currently.
https://forms.gle/YGaQkcpF4yzkSSQ99

Any volunteers to join the selection process of the talks?

Kind regards,






 

RE: CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2021 (9-12 November) - Call For Speakers

[Giles Sirett]

Hi Ivet - this is great - thank you for getting this going. As much as I'd 
prefer to actually *see* everybody, an online conference is a very good second 
best

Great to see the CFP open already. However, I notice that there's no deadline 
on the CFP - from experience we need a deadline to focus people  . I'd suggest 
a deadline in September

In terms of sifting and selecting the talks (which we can only do once the 
deadline is passed) , I'm happy to help. In previous years we've set up a small 
committee formed of PMC members (although there is no specific requirement to 
do so)  - I'm happy to work with the PMC to build a similar group for this year 
- would you like me to do that ?

Kind regards
Giles

 


-Original Message-
From: Ivet Petrova  
Sent: 16 July 2021 11:26
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2021 (9-12 November) - Call For 
Speakers

Hello everyone,

I am happy to announce that our community will organise the CloudStack 
Collaboration Conference as a Virtual Event.
The event will happen from 9th of November to 12th of November 2021.
We will work to update the website and do an online registration, which will be 
announced in the next several weeks.

Meanwhile, I would like to announce a Call for Speakers. Bellow you can find a 
form, where you can submit your talk. The agenda is vital for our event 
success. At this event we target to collect a wider audience of people, who are 
users, but also companies, which consider what cloud orchestration to use 
currently.
https://forms.gle/YGaQkcpF4yzkSSQ99

Any volunteers to join the selection process of the talks?


Kind regards,


 

RE: [REVIEW] 4.15.1.0 announcement draft

[Giles Sirett]

Rohit - thanks for the draft.
Below updated with a couple of edits:
a) initial paragraph changed (just think it reads better)
b) updated # fixes from "more than 300" to "more than 350" to stay inline with 
release notes/what's new



### START ###


# Apache CloudStack LTS Maintenance Release 4.15.1.0

The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the release of CloudStack 
4.15.1.0. 
The CloudStack 4.15.1.0 release is a maintenance release as part of its 4.15.x  
LTS branch  and contains more than
350  fixes and improvements since the CloudStack 4.15.0.0 release.

CloudStack LTS branches are supported for 18 months and will receive updates 
for the first 12 months and only security updates in the last 6 months.

Apache CloudStack is an integrated Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) software 
platform that allows users to build feature-rich public and private cloud 
environments. CloudStack includes an intuitive user interface and rich API for 
managing the compute, networking, software, and storage resources. The project 
became an Apache top-level project in March, 2013.

More information about Apache CloudStack can be found at:
https://cloudstack.apache.org/

# Documentation

What's new in  CloudStack 4.15.1.0:
https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.15.1.0/releasenotes/about.html

The 4.15.1.0 release notes include a full list of issues fixed, as well as 
upgrade instructions from previous versions of Apache CloudStack, and can be 
found at:
https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.15.1.0/releasenotes/

The official installation, administration, and API documentation for each of 
the releases are available on our documentation page:
https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/

# Downloads

The official source code for the 4.15.1.0 release can be downloaded from our 
downloads page:
https://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html

In addition to the official source code release, individual contributors have 
also made convenience binaries available on the Apache CloudStack download 
page, and can be found at:

https://download.cloudstack.org/el/7/
https://download.cloudstack.org/el/8/
https://download.cloudstack.org/ubuntu/dists/
https://www.shapeblue.com/packages/

### END ###



Kind regards
Giles

 


-Original Message-
From: Rohit Yadav  
Sent: 05 July 2021 12:06
To: Apache CloudStack Marketing 
Cc: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: [REVIEW] 4.15.1.0 announcement draft

All,

Kindly review the 4.15.1.0 announcement draft including links etc. (the Ubuntu 
packages are requested to be built/published with Wido/Gabriel, rest are all 
working)

### START ###


# Apache CloudStack LTS Maintenance Release 4.15.1.0

The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the release of CloudStack 
4.15.1.0 as part of its LTS 4.15.x releases. The CloudStack
4.15.1.0 release is a maintenance release and contains more than
300 fixes and improvements since the CloudStack 4.15.0.0 release.

CloudStack LTS branches are supported for 18 months and will receive updates 
for the first 12 months and only security updates in the last 6 months.

Apache CloudStack is an integrated Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) software 
platform that allows users to build feature-rich public and private cloud 
environments. CloudStack includes an intuitive user interface and rich API for 
managing the compute, networking, software, and storage resources. The project 
became an Apache top-level project in March, 2013.

More information about Apache CloudStack can be found at:
https://cloudstack.apache.org/

# Documentation

What's new in  CloudStack 4.15.1.0:
https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.15.1.0/releasenotes/about.html

The 4.15.1.0 release notes include a full list of issues fixed, as well as 
upgrade instructions from previous versions of Apache CloudStack, and can be 
found at:
https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.15.1.0/releasenotes/

The official installation, administration, and API documentation for each of 
the releases are available on our documentation page:
https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/

# Downloads

The official source code for the 4.15.1.0 release can be downloaded from our 
downloads page:
https://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html

In addition to the official source code release, individual contributors have 
also made convenience binaries available on the Apache CloudStack download 
page, and can be found at:

https://download.cloudstack.org/el/7/
https://download.cloudstack.org/el/8/
https://download.cloudstack.org/ubuntu/dists/
https://www.shapeblue.com/packages/


### END ###



Regards.

 

update - Google Summer of Code 2021

[Giles Sirett]

All
Just an update on where the project is with GSoC


We've had a number of suggestions on this mailing list and also some people 
submitting ideas as Github issues:
https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Agsoc2021

Thank you everybody who has submitted a project and said you'd act as a mentor



Below, I've collated all of the proposed  ideas (abbreviated project names)

Harikrishna "mapping existing configuration parameters to the APIs"
Suresh "Cloning a Virtual Machine (with all the data disks)"
Boris "improvements in the UI around user experience. navigate around just 
using keyboards"
David  "allowing the user to set multiple SSH keys"
Alireza  "writing a Container Storage Interface (CSI) for Kubernetes"
Daan: suggested a number of projects but unfortunately isn't able to mentor 
this year.
Rohit "onboard users with existing XenServer/VMware/* environments with VMs to 
CloudStack/KVM."
Pearl "extending the behaviour of Persistent Networks in CloudStack."
Wei "Spice console"
Nicolas initially put forward "marvin test service"  but has since contacted me 
to say  that he'd prefer to put forward on of Daans projects: "authentication 
plugins for public authentication providers like google/microsoft/facebook/etc"


I think these all look like interesting projects

@ Alireza   - as far as I can see from discussions on list, your initial idea 
didn't seem to develop into a proposal. Do you still wish to pursue it ?

WHAT PROPOSERS NOW NEED TO DO==

We have two primary things to do to make these available as Apache GSoC 
projects:


  1.  We need to get them listed on COMDEV here:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/GSoC+2021+Ideas+list#GSoC2021Ideaslist-CloudStack

This is the page that students will visit if they choose to browse  Apache as a 
partner (Thanks to Rohit for getting the initial CloudStack listing here)

Note: we will be competing with other projects for the students attention, so 
need to ensure that the listings are "attractive"

My thinking is that the descriptions need to be more "student focussed" - i.e 
they cannot assume any CloudStack knowledge and they should explain the type of 
tech/skills involved
Could I therefore ask everybody to reply to this thread with a more structured 
project description:

- project Title

-brief description including what problem this solves & what are its benefits
-technologies involved (i.e. Java, VueJS)
-who would this suit ? (i.e. this would suit somebody with a passion for UI 
design)

I will then take those descriptions and add them to our listing on COMDEV


  1.  Mentors need to read https://community.apache.org/gsoc.html and, 
specifically,  register with the mailing list 
ment...@community.apache.org ASAP
They should then get an invite from the GSoC people. Being on this list allows 
you to be officially recognised as a mentor but also to help deal with any 
student enquiries about your projects


===

Kind regards
Giles


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3 London Bridge Street,  3rd floor, News Building, London  SE1 9SGUK
@shapeblue
  
 

Cloudstack developer training

[Giles Sirett]

Hi all

One of the biggest challenges with Cloudstack is learning its architecture and 
codebase  - its big and its complicated. Onboarding new software engineers can 
be a daunting process.
For the last 2 years, we at ShapeBlue have built up a set of resources to help 
us with onboarding on new engineers who will be working on Cloudstack.

This has evolved into a self-study course that we call "hackerbook"- the logic 
being that it's a training course that gets engineers hands-on hacking in the 
code ASAP.  It's a mix of videos, exercises and other resources.

Today, we've opensourced this resource in order to make it available to anybody 
who may want to learn to develop on Cloudstack.

Feedback and improvement PRs will be warmly accepted

Its currently sitting in a shapeblue repo, happy to move under ASF if anybody 
thinks that's important

https://github.com/shapeblue/hackerbook

Happy Hacking

Kind regards
Giles


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www.shapeblue.com
3 London Bridge Street,  3rd floor, News Building, London  SE1 9SGUK
@shapeblue
  
 

Goggle Summer of Code 2021

[Giles Sirett]

Hi all

It would be great if the CloudStack project were able to get a few Google 
Summer of Code  [1] students this year to work on projects within our 
community. We've had a number of previous GSoC students (examples at [2] ), who 
have worked on innovative features/ projects within cloudstack and have then 
gone on to become significant contributors to Cloudstack .


In order to be able to attract students to work on Cloudstack, we need 2 things:

  1.  A number of candidate projects for students to work on. Students browse 
all GSoC the candidate projects and choose one that interests them- effectively 
every organisation is competing for the students interest.  These projects 
therefore need to be reasonably interesting looking projects to attract 
potential students. The students spend approximately 9 weeks coding, so the 
projects need to be appropriately scaled
  2.  Somebody prepared to mentor the student throughout the duration of the 
project (usually the person who suggests the project)

The student application period starts 29 March [3]
The ASF  has registered itself as a mentor  organisation with Google , allowing 
individual Apache projects to list candidate projects  for students to work on. 
A wiki page [4]  has been created at the ASF level to allow ASF projects to  
list their ideas for students


I'm happy to coordinate this from a Cloudstack perspective.
If others are happy with this approach, then I ask for two things at this stage:


  1.  Could people suggest appropriate projects. This could be a piece of 
integration that you've always considered and not got around to or could be an 
improvement that you've always wanted to do. If people can reply to this thread 
with ANY ideas, it would be a good start (irrespective of whether you wish to 
be a mentor or not)
  2.  At the same time, could people say whether they'd be prepared to be a 
student mentor or not




[1] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/


[2]
https://blog.netapp.com/blogs/mentoring-with-google-summer-of-code-and-lessons-in-cloudstack/
https://dzone.com/articles/cloudstack-google-summer-code
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2014/07/gsoc-students-create-google-compute.html


[3]https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/how-it-works/#timeline

[4] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/GSoC+2021+Ideas+list



Kind regards
Giles


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www.shapeblue.com
3 London Bridge Street,  3rd floor, News Building, London  SE1 9SGUK
@shapeblue
  
 

LTS cycle

[Giles Sirett]

All

I've made a small update to the projects LTS cycle on the wiki here:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/LTS

Previously the page listed had a period of 2 months at the beginning of each 
LTS release for stabilisation activities.  (i.e. months 1-2 of every new 
release was meant to be spent stabilising a release  before it was pronounced 
as being LTS)

Total LTS cycle duration was therefore 20 months (those 2 initial months plus 
the 18 month cycle)


AFAIK, we've never actually done that initial stage - a designated LTS release 
is seen as being in the LTS cycle from its day of release
I've therefore removed that initial step and changed the page to describe the 
18 month cycle

I've made the update (it was just annoying me)  - happy to revert if anybody 
objects






Kind regards
Giles


giles.sir...@shapeblue.com 
www.shapeblue.com
3 London Bridge Street,  3rd floor, News Building, London  SE1 9SGUK
@shapeblue
  
 

RE: draft [ANNOUNCE]ment version 4.15 [DISCUSS]

[Giles Sirett]

Hi Sally

I have received a quote from Wido at PC extreme

I (Giles) have also provided one in case you feel that we need more - but don’t 
feel obliged to use

I've dumped both Wido's an my quote at the end of the doc - are you able to 
hack them into the flow in the release ?

(all 3 provided quotes come with permission to edit/hack as long as context 
isn’t changed)



Kind regards
Giles

giles.sir...@shapeblue.com 
www.shapeblue.com
3 London Bridge Street,  3rd floor, News Building, London  SE1 9SGUK
@shapeblue
  
 


-Original Message-
From: Giles Sirett 
Sent: 14 January 2021 10:54
To: Sally Khudairi 
Cc: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: RE: draft [ANNOUNCE]ment version 4.15 [DISCUSS]

Sally - I'm waiting for one more testimonial  - and it’s a new worth waiting 
for IMO Hopefully will have today


I'm bringing this back into the dev list  to make sure everybody would be happy 
with the announcement going Mnoday


Kind regards
Giles

-Original Message-
From: Sally Khudairi 
Sent: 14 January 2021 10:50
To: Giles Sirett 
Subject: Re: draft [ANNOUNCE]ment version 4.15 [DISCUSS]

Thank you, Giles.

I haven't heard anything from Sven since Monday.

So we're good to go on that front.

I'll take a look at the draft later today to see what else is outstanding. Are 
we expecting any other testimonials to come in?

If we're ready to announce, I can ramp us up for Monday, if that's convenient 
for everyone.

Best,
Sally

- - -
Vice President Marketing & Publicity
Vice President Sponsor Relations
The Apache Software Foundation

Tel +1 617 921 8656 | s...@apache.org

RE: draft [ANNOUNCE]ment version 4.15 [DISCUSS]

[Giles Sirett]

Sally - I'm waiting for one more testimonial  - and it’s a new worth waiting 
for IMO
Hopefully will have today


I'm bringing this back into the dev list  to make sure everybody would be happy 
with the announcement going Mnoday


Kind regards
Giles

giles.sir...@shapeblue.com 
www.shapeblue.com
3 London Bridge Street,  3rd floor, News Building, London  SE1 9SGUK
@shapeblue
  
 


-Original Message-
From: Sally Khudairi  
Sent: 14 January 2021 10:50
To: Giles Sirett 
Subject: Re: draft [ANNOUNCE]ment version 4.15 [DISCUSS]

Thank you, Giles.

I haven't heard anything from Sven since Monday.

So we're good to go on that front.

I'll take a look at the draft later today to see what else is outstanding. Are 
we expecting any other testimonials to come in?

If we're ready to announce, I can ramp us up for Monday, if that's convenient 
for everyone.

Best,
Sally

- - -
Vice President Marketing & Publicity
Vice President Sponsor Relations
The Apache Software Foundation

Tel +1 617 921 8656 | s...@apache.org

[discuss] CentOS announcement

[Giles Sirett]

You may have seen this news recently announced by Redhat and the CentOS 
project.  [1] [2]





At this early stage, it looks like   CentOS Stream will not provide the 
stability that we probably expect



So, what Linux distro should we be targeting for MS and  KVM agents going 
forward  ?  I guess this is a decision that we have to make as a project.



CentOS 7 will receive full updates only until the year end (Q4 2020) and 
maintenance updates will continue until 30 June 2024, so I don't think we need 
to rush this decision. Also, I think that there will be a lot of emerging 
competitors to fill the void, like the recent announcement of Rocky. [3] gives 
a good summary of current choices



 I guess, actually, the question is: *when* should we aim to make this decision 
?  - the advantage of leaving it is we are able to see what others settle on.




[1] Red Hat makes drastic changes to CentOS, leaves users fuming | 
TechRadar

[2] CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream - 
Blog.CentOS.org
[3] About/Product - CentOS Wiki
[4] Where CentOS Linux users can go from here | 
ZDNet

Kind regards
Giles


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www.shapeblue.com
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@shapeblue
  
 

RE: [ANNOUNCE] 4.14 Freeze date

[Giles Sirett]

In case there is anybody superstitious, could we make it Saturday 14th at 00:01 
? 


Kind regards
Giles

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www.shapeblue.com
3 London Bridge Street,  3rd floor, News Building, London  SE1 9SGUK
@shapeblue
  
 


-Original Message-
From: Andrija Panic  
Sent: 06 March 2020 13:59
To: dev 
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] 4.14 Freeze date

Hi all,

I believe we are nearly there, so I would like to propose/announce a
master/4.14 code freeze date for a week from now, on Friday the 13th @ 23.59h

After this time, no more features and general fixes will be allowed, and only 
critical and blocker issues will be fixed after the freeze.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Thank you,

-- 

Andrija Panić

Cloudstack Speakers required - ECID

[Giles Sirett]

Hi all
Ivet over at Storpool is organising  the "European Cloud Infrastructure Day"
https://cloudinfraday.eu/ in Sofia, May 14th

The Storpool guys have always been good supporters of Cloudstack events in 
Europe  - so it would be great if we can help them out. I think Cloudstack 
should be well represented at this event

Shes looking to find some more speakers from the Apache Cloudstack community (I 
believe Sven is already speaking, but she wants some more people to do 
technical talks)
Many of the community folks (including me)  that speak at these kind of things 
in Europe are unavailable that week.

If anybody would be prepared to go an do a CloudStack talk - can you please let 
Ivet know

Sofia is a great city to visit and I'm sure anybody going would receive 
tremendous hospitality from Ivet and the others


Kind regards
Giles


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www.shapeblue.com
3 London Bridge Street,  3rd floor, News Building, London  SE1 9SGUK
@shapeblue
  
 

Cloudstack Collaboration Conference - CFP open

[Giles Sirett]

All

This years CloudStack Collaboration Conference (CCC) will be co-located with 
Apachecon North America, which is running September 28th - October 2nd at the 
Sheraton, New Orleans. https://apachecon.com/acna2020

We have got commitment from the Apachecon organisers to have two rooms for 3 
days - so CCC will be a 3 day event.  This will allow us to run 2 x talk tracks 
for the first 2 days and a hackathon for the 3rd  day. This was the format we 
used this year in Las Vegas, which was very successful. We are waiting for 
confirmation on which days we will have rooms


Submit your Cloudstack talks/presentations

Last year, CCC was so successful primarily because of the excellent & varied 
talk content from this community

The CFP for CCC is run via the ApacheCon CFP, which is now open at 
https://apachecon.com/acna2020/cfp
Talks will then be selected by a panel selected by the Cloudstack PMC.

The CFP will close on Friday 1 May 2020 8am (UTC-5). As per last year, I 
apologise that this date is so far ahead of the actual conference. Personally I 
find it very difficult to even think of suitable subjects 5 months ahead  - but 
it is a framework that we have agreed to work with.


These conferences only work if we all are prepared to share our experiences, 
the work we've been doing and our ideas around Cloudstack - so I ask everybody 
in our community to think about submitting a talk.  Yes, that is difficult 5 
months ahead, but please do try. Speakers get a free pass to the conference.


The CFP is at https://apachecon.com/acna2020/cfp and remember to choose 
Cloudstack in the track.







Kind regards
Giles

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RE: CloudStack Interview Request

[Giles Sirett]

Hi Lalaine

I'll happily progress this with you
Could you first please send me a link to your blog and give me an understanding 
of its audience and purpose


Kind regards
Giles

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-Original Message-
From: Lalaine L.  
Sent: 27 December 2019 14:56
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: CloudStack Interview Request

Hi there folks at CloudStack! I'm currently reaching out to you today because 
I'd like to interview you about your experience in the open source software 
space for our blog. I stumbled onto your site so I thought I'd reach out for an 
interview :) 

As far as the interview goes, it would be a text based interview (completed 
through email) consisting of about ten questions and we would publish it on our 
blog (see our site in my bio below). 

We would link back to your site as well. We're just looking to interview a few 
thought-leaders in the open source software space about their unique 
perspectives and experiences with regards to building open source projects. 

We'll promote the interview on Facebook, LinkedIn and other social media 
platforms as well. 

Let me know if you're interested and we'll go from there! 

Best! 

Lalaine
Erxes Website [1] 

Links:
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[1] https://erxes.io/

RE: [DISCUSS] Short "marketing" video project

[Giles Sirett]

All
I have contacted Karen  and she doesn’t have access to the existing cloudstack 
youtube channel

I'd really like to see the videos that Andrija, Julia  & others have been 
working on have a home. A proper Cloudstack home

If nobody objects, I'm going to go ahead and create a new channel for 
CloudStack following the process I mentioned previously

The old  channel isn’t going anywhere  - and maybe there could be an option to 
migrate the vidoes across from that channel ?


Kind regards
Giles

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-Original Message-
From: Giles Sirett  
Sent: 07 October 2019 09:27
To: us...@cloudstack.apache.org; dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Cc: Apache CloudStack Marketing 
Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Short "marketing" video project

Good catch David
I'll ping Karen and see if shes still got the details and report back here


Kind regards
Giles

giles.sir...@shapeblue.com
www.shapeblue.com
Amadeus House, Floral Street, London  WC2E 9DPUK @shapeblue
  
 


-Original Message-
From: David Nalley 
Sent: 04 October 2019 18:02
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Cc: Apache CloudStack Marketing ; users 

Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Short "marketing" video project

Like this one?
https://www.youtube.com/user/cloudstack/about

I think Karen had creds to this.

On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 11:04 AM Will Stevens  wrote:
>
> I am +1 to an ACS youtube channel.
>
> *Will Stevens*
> Chief Technology Officer
> c 514.826.0190
>
> <https://goo.gl/NYZ8KK>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 9:46 AM Giles Sirett 
> 
> wrote:
>
> > I love the video Andrija
> >
> > Very good point Julia - we also have a whole of catalogue community 
> > video content hosted in the Shapeblue channel - simply because there 
> > was nowhere else to put it For CCC the last  2 years,  we've worked 
> > with Rich Bowen to get conference talks into the Apache channel, but 
> > that’s only really fits  because CCC has been part of Apachecon 
> > (i.e. it wouldn’t work for "how to" videos) ,etc
> >
> > If we have people who are creating video content for the project 
> > such as this , it would probably make sense to create an ACS youtube 
> > channel.
> >
> > Any objections ?
> >
> > From a practicality side, access to this would need to work in a 
> > similar way to the ACS twitter account: the account owner is a PMC 
> > email address, allowing password resets from the PMC as a group. The 
> > actual login credentials  then held by a small subset of people who 
> > actually publish.
> >
> > This is a bigger decsison than Andrijas one specific  video IMO and 
> > should have its own discuss thread , but keen to see initial 
> > thoughts here first
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Giles
> >
> > giles.sir...@shapeblue.com
> > www.shapeblue.com
> > Amadeus House, Floral Street, London  WC2E 9DPUK @shapeblue
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Andrija Panic 
> > Sent: 03 October 2019 18:58
> > To: Apache CloudStack Marketing 
> > Cc: users ; dev 
> > 
> > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Short "marketing" video project
> >
> > I believe I saw that video - very nice work Julia.
> >
> > I believe, by (very) lazy consensus (a.k.a. if no objections), that 
> > I will add that video to the main web site.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Andrija
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 14:56, Julia Simon  wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > We ran in to this issue a few years ago when we hosted the 
> > > CloudStack Collab. Videos from that are on our (CloudOps) youtube 
> > > channel, since there wasn't another place to publish them.
> > > Julia
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 10:21 AM Andrija Panic 
> > > 
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi guys,
> > >>
> > >> this is a little project I've been experimenting last 2 weeks and 
> > >> is
> > >> **temporarily** located on the ShapeBlue channel.
> > >>
> > >> https://youtu.be/k3uD69fajCU
> > >>
> > >> Do you have any ideas where we can publish this, in more 
> > >> "official", CloudStack way?
> > >>
> > >> I was thinking about putting this on the main website 
> > >> http://cloudstack.apache.org
> > >>
> > >> Comments, objections, ideas?
> > >>
> > >> Best,
> > >> Andrija
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > *Julia Simon*Responsable principale du marketing *| *Senior 
> > > Marketing Manager t 514.447.3456 ext. 1103 c 514.993.6661
> > >
> > > <https://goo.gl/NYZ8KK>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Andrija Panić
> >

RE: [VOTE] Primate as modern UI for CloudStack

[Giles Sirett]

+1 (binding, although I don’t think that matters if we're not voting on a 
release)


Kind regards
Giles

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www.shapeblue.com
Amadeus House, Floral Street, London  WC2E 9DPUK
@shapeblue
  
 


-Original Message-
From: Alex Ball  
Sent: 08 October 2019 13:28
To: us...@cloudstack.apache.org; dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: [VOTE] Primate as modern UI for CloudStack

+1 binding

-Alex Ball
CITO
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On 10/8/2019 7:10 AM, Gabriel Beims Bräscher wrote:
> +1 (binding)
>
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2019, 07:48 Syed Ahmed  wrote:
>
>> +1 binding
>>
>> On Tue., Oct. 8, 2019, 4:14 p.m. Will Stevens, 
>> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> +1 (binding)
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 7, 2019, 7:31 AM Rohit Yadav 
>>> wrote:
>>>
 All,

 The feedback and response has been positive on the proposal to use
>>> Primate
 as the modern UI for CloudStack [1] [2]. Thank you all.

 I'm starting this vote (to):

*   Accept Primate codebase [3] as a project under Apache CloudStack
 project
*   Create and host a new repository (cloudstack-primate) and follow
 Github based development workflow (issues, pull requests etc) as we 
 do
>>> with
 CloudStack
*   Given this is a new project, to encourage cadence until its
>> feature
 completeness the merge criteria is proposed as:
   *   Manual testing against each PR and/or with screenshots from
>> the
 author or testing contributor, integration with Travis is possible 
 once
>>> we
 get JS/UI tests
   *   At least 1 LGTM from any of the active contributors, we'll
>> move
 this to 2 LGTMs when the codebase reaches feature parity wrt the 
 existing/old CloudStack UI
   *   Squash and merge PRs
*   Accept the proposed timeline [1][2] (subject to achievement of
>>> goals
 wrt Primate technical release and GA)
   *   the first technical preview targetted with the winter 2019 LTS
 release (~Q1 2020) and release to serve a deprecation notice wrt 
 the
>>> older
 UI
   *   define a release approach before winter LTS
   *   stop taking feature FRs for old/existing UI after winter 2019
>>> LTS
 release, work on upgrade path/documentation from old UI to Primate
   *   the first Primate GA targetted wrt summer LTS 2020 (~H2 2019),
 but still ship old UI with a final deprecation notice
   *   old UI codebase removed from codebase in winter 2020 LTS
>> release
 The vote will be up for the next two weeks to give enough time for 
 PMC
>>> and
 the community to gather consensus and still have room for 
 questions, feedback and discussions. The results to be shared 
 on/after 21th
>> October
 2019.

 For sanity in tallying the vote, can PMC members please be sure to 
 indicate "(binding)" with their vote?

 [ ] +1  approve
 [ ] +0  no opinion
 [ ] -1  disapprove (and reason why)

 [1] Primate Proposal:


>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Proposal%3A+Cl
>> oudStack+Primate+UI
 [2] Email thread reference:
 https://markmail.org/message/z6fuvw4regig7aqb

 [3] Primate repo current location:
>> https://github.com/shapeblue/primate

 Regards,

 Rohit Yadav

 Software Architect, ShapeBlue

 https://www.shapeblue.com

 rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com
 www.shapeblue.com
 Amadeus House, Floral Street, London  WC2E 9DPUK @shapeblue

RE: [DISCUSS] Short "marketing" video project

[Giles Sirett]

Good catch David
I'll ping Karen and see if shes still got the details and report back here


Kind regards
Giles

giles.sir...@shapeblue.com 
www.shapeblue.com
Amadeus House, Floral Street, London  WC2E 9DPUK
@shapeblue
  
 


-Original Message-
From: David Nalley  
Sent: 04 October 2019 18:02
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Cc: Apache CloudStack Marketing ; users 

Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Short "marketing" video project

Like this one?
https://www.youtube.com/user/cloudstack/about

I think Karen had creds to this.

On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 11:04 AM Will Stevens  wrote:
>
> I am +1 to an ACS youtube channel.
>
> *Will Stevens*
> Chief Technology Officer
> c 514.826.0190
>
> <https://goo.gl/NYZ8KK>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 9:46 AM Giles Sirett 
> 
> wrote:
>
> > I love the video Andrija
> >
> > Very good point Julia - we also have a whole of catalogue community 
> > video content hosted in the Shapeblue channel - simply because there 
> > was nowhere else to put it For CCC the last  2 years,  we've worked 
> > with Rich Bowen to get conference talks into the Apache channel, but 
> > that’s only really fits  because CCC has been part of Apachecon 
> > (i.e. it wouldn’t work for "how to" videos) ,etc
> >
> > If we have people who are creating video content for the project 
> > such as this , it would probably make sense to create an ACS youtube 
> > channel.
> >
> > Any objections ?
> >
> > From a practicality side, access to this would need to work in a 
> > similar way to the ACS twitter account: the account owner is a PMC 
> > email address, allowing password resets from the PMC as a group. The 
> > actual login credentials  then held by a small subset of people who 
> > actually publish.
> >
> > This is a bigger decsison than Andrijas one specific  video IMO and 
> > should have its own discuss thread , but keen to see initial 
> > thoughts here first
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Giles
> >
> > giles.sir...@shapeblue.com
> > www.shapeblue.com
> > Amadeus House, Floral Street, London  WC2E 9DPUK @shapeblue
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Andrija Panic 
> > Sent: 03 October 2019 18:58
> > To: Apache CloudStack Marketing 
> > Cc: users ; dev 
> > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Short "marketing" video project
> >
> > I believe I saw that video - very nice work Julia.
> >
> > I believe, by (very) lazy consensus (a.k.a. if no objections), that I will
> > add that video to the main web site.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Andrija
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 14:56, Julia Simon  wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > We ran in to this issue a few years ago when we hosted the CloudStack
> > > Collab. Videos from that are on our (CloudOps) youtube channel, since
> > > there wasn't another place to publish them.
> > > Julia
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 10:21 AM Andrija Panic
> > > 
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi guys,
> > >>
> > >> this is a little project I've been experimenting last 2 weeks and is
> > >> **temporarily** located on the ShapeBlue channel.
> > >>
> > >> https://youtu.be/k3uD69fajCU
> > >>
> > >> Do you have any ideas where we can publish this, in more "official",
> > >> CloudStack way?
> > >>
> > >> I was thinking about putting this on the main website
> > >> http://cloudstack.apache.org
> > >>
> > >> Comments, objections, ideas?
> > >>
> > >> Best,
> > >> Andrija
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > *Julia Simon*Responsable principale du marketing *| *Senior Marketing
> > > Manager t 514.447.3456 ext. 1103 c 514.993.6661
> > >
> > > <https://goo.gl/NYZ8KK>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Andrija Panić
> >

RE: [DISCUSS] Short "marketing" video project

[Giles Sirett]

I love the video Andrija

Very good point Julia - we also have a whole of catalogue community video 
content hosted in the Shapeblue channel - simply because there was nowhere else 
to put it
For CCC the last  2 years,  we've worked with Rich Bowen to get conference 
talks into the Apache channel, but that’s only really fits  because CCC has 
been part of Apachecon (i.e. it wouldn’t work for "how to" videos) ,etc

If we have people who are creating video content for the project such as this , 
it would probably make sense to create an ACS youtube channel.

Any objections ?

From a practicality side, access to this would need to work in a similar way to 
the ACS twitter account: the account owner is a PMC email address, allowing 
password resets from the PMC as a group. The actual login credentials  then 
held by a small subset of people who actually publish.

This is a bigger decsison than Andrijas one specific  video IMO and should have 
its own discuss thread , but keen to see initial thoughts here first





Kind regards
Giles

giles.sir...@shapeblue.com 
www.shapeblue.com
Amadeus House, Floral Street, London  WC2E 9DPUK
@shapeblue
  
 


-Original Message-
From: Andrija Panic  
Sent: 03 October 2019 18:58
To: Apache CloudStack Marketing 
Cc: users ; dev 
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Short "marketing" video project

I believe I saw that video - very nice work Julia.

I believe, by (very) lazy consensus (a.k.a. if no objections), that I will add 
that video to the main web site.

Cheers
Andrija


On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 14:56, Julia Simon  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We ran in to this issue a few years ago when we hosted the CloudStack 
> Collab. Videos from that are on our (CloudOps) youtube channel, since 
> there wasn't another place to publish them.
> Julia
>
> On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 10:21 AM Andrija Panic 
> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> this is a little project I've been experimenting last 2 weeks and is
>> **temporarily** located on the ShapeBlue channel.
>>
>> https://youtu.be/k3uD69fajCU
>>
>> Do you have any ideas where we can publish this, in more "official", 
>> CloudStack way?
>>
>> I was thinking about putting this on the main website 
>> http://cloudstack.apache.org
>>
>> Comments, objections, ideas?
>>
>> Best,
>> Andrija
>>
>>
>
> --
>
> *Julia Simon*Responsable principale du marketing *| *Senior Marketing 
> Manager t 514.447.3456 ext. 1103 c 514.993.6661
>
> 
>
>
>


-- 

Andrija Panić

RE: Introduction: Radu Todirica

[Giles Sirett]

Welcome Radu

Kind regards
Giles

giles.sir...@shapeblue.com 
www.shapeblue.com
Amadeus House, Floral Street, London  WC2E 9DPUK
@shapeblue
  
 


-Original Message-
From: Nicolas Vazquez  
Sent: 27 August 2019 00:36
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Cc: Radu Todirica 
Subject: Re: Introduction: Radu Todirica

Welcome Radu!

From: Simon Weller 
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 12:06:58 PM
To: dev 
Cc: Radu Todirica 
Subject: Introduction: Radu Todirica

All,

I'd like to introduce Radu Todirica to the community.  Radu is a new(er) member 
of the ENA team and has been making lots of contributions to CloudStack and you 
can expect to see some PRs from him pretty soon.

Please join me in making him welcome!

-Si



nicolas.vazq...@shapeblue.com
www.shapeblue.com
Amadeus House, Floral Street, London  WC2E 9DPUK @shapeblue
  
 

RE: CCC NA19 - talk selection

[Giles Sirett]

Hi Sven
Good question.

In short, it shouldn't involve too much work  -  we only have a few extra 
submissions on top of the number of slots we have 

We cant really do this on a public list so probably the most efficient is that 
the group jump on a conference call (maybe 45 minutes) to agree the schedule

So far I've got you, Mike, Paul & Gabriel as volunteers

I'll circulate the list of talks directly (off list) to that group and also the 
link to the boiler plate schedule
Will suggest some slots for the call at the same time


Kind regards
Giles

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www.shapeblue.com
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@shapeblue
  
 


-Original Message-
From: Sven Vogel  
Sent: 20 May 2019 14:35
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Cc: priv...@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: CCC NA19 - talk selection

Hi Giles,

I can help but what we need to do?

Greetings

Sven

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> Am 20.05.2019 um 15:14 schrieb Gabriel Beims Bräscher :
>
> I will not be able to attend the CCC NA19; however, I also can help 
> with this, Giles.
>
> Regards,
> Gabriel.
>
> Em seg, 20 de mai de 2019 às 10:08, Tutkowski, Mike < 
> mike.tutkow...@netapp.com> escreveu:
>
>> I can help with this, Giles.
>>
>> 
>> From: Paul Angus 
>> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2019 3:46:37 AM
>> To: priv...@cloudstack.apache.org; dev@cloudstack.apache.org
>> Subject: RE: CCC NA19 - talk selection
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for taking this on Giles,  I'm happy to help out.
>>
>> From: Giles Sirett 
>> Sent: 20 May 2019 10:45
>> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
>> Cc: priv...@cloudstack.apache.org
>> Subject: CCC NA19 - talk selection
>>
>> Hi all
>> The CFP for Cloudstack Collab  (http://us.cloudstackcollab.org/) has 
>> now closed.
>> We've had a good number of submissions which now need to be sifted 
>> and selected
>>
>> In previous years, we've done this by getting a small  "selection 
>> committee" together. My suggestion is that we do the same this year
>>
>> So, we need some volunteers
>>
>> Please, can anybody who like to help with this step forward now!
>>
>> We have to get the agenda together by 3 June, so time is tight
>>
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Giles
>>
>>
>> giles.sir...@shapeblue.com<mailto:giles.sir...@shapeblue.com>
>> www.shapeblue.com<http://www.shapeblue.com>
>> @shapeblue
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> paul.an...@shapeblue.com
>> www.shapeblue.com<http://www.shapeblue.com>
>> Amadeus House, Floral Street, London  WC2E 9DPUK @shapeblue
>>
>>
>>
>>

CCC NA19 - talk selection

[Giles Sirett]

Hi all
The CFP for Cloudstack Collab  (http://us.cloudstackcollab.org/) has now closed.
We've had a good number of submissions which now need to be sifted and selected

In previous years, we've done this by getting a small  "selection committee" 
together. My suggestion is that we do the same this year

So, we need some volunteers

Please, can anybody who like to help with this step forward now!

We have to get the agenda together by 3 June, so time is tight


Kind regards
Giles


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www.shapeblue.com
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@shapeblue
  
 

RE: Ansible 2.8: CloudStack related changes

[Giles Sirett]

Sorry to hear that Rene - thanks for your massive contributions over the years 
and good luck for the future


Kind regards
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-Original Message-
From: Rene Moser  
Sent: 16 May 2019 13:12
To: us...@cloudstack.apache.org; dev 
Subject: Ansible 2.8: CloudStack related changes

Hi all

As announced previously in autumn 2018, I am ending my active maintenance for 
the CloudStack Ansible integration with the 2.8 release.

It started as PoC during a weekend at a Swiss Linux hackers event "Turrican 
Days" in autumn 2014 and turned into "thing" I have spent many nights with. 
Take care of it.

The modules are in best conditions: Cloudstack is one of a few Ansible 
integrations without any failing sanity checks. Special thanks goes to David 
Passante who brought all the docs in shape!

We have automated integration tests based on a simulator docker setup [1] 
currently running Cloudstack 4.11.2. The integration test code coverage [2] is 
at >85%.

There are currently (only) 2 more members in the CloudStack team [3] in Ansible.

Thanks again for all the support and appreciation I have received over the 
years.

Ansible v2.8.0 is going to be released with the following, CloudStack related 
changes, thanks for all the contributors:

David Passante (18):
  Cloudstack: fix support for some VPC service capabilities (#45727)
  cs_account: Implement role parameter support (#46166)
  cs_account: add ability to bind accounts to LDAP (#46219)
  Cloudstack: New module cs_vlan_ip_range (#51597)
  cloudstack: streamline modules doc (#52509)
  cloudstack: streamline modules doc (part 2) (#52730)
  cloudstack: streamline modules doc (part 3) (#53412)
  cs_iso: fix missing param "is_public" (#53740)
  cs_network_offering: Add choice list for supported_services in arg_spec 
(#53901)
  cloudstack: streamline modules doc (part 4) (#53874)
  cs_volume: add volumes extraction and upload features (#54111)
  cs_instance_facts: add a "nic" fact to return VM networking information 
(#54337)
  cs_service_offering: update params in arg spec and documentation
(#54511)
  cs_network_offering: add a for_vpc parameter (#54551)
  cloudstack: streamline modules doc (part 5) (#54523)
  cs_service_offering: Implement customizable compute offers (#54597)
  cloudstack: streamline modules doc (part 6) (#54641)
  cs_vlan_ip_range: Update return values documentation (#54677)

Gregor Riepl (1):
  Cloudstack: Add password reset module (#47931)

Patryk D. Cichy (5):
  Add new Cloudstack module cs_image_store (#53617)
  Add new CloudStack module cs_physical_network (#54098)
  Add a new CloudStack module - cs_traffic_type (#54451)
  Enable adding VLAN IP ranges for Physical Networks (#54576)
  Proper handling of lower case name for InternalLbVm Service Provider 
(#55087)

Rene Moser (13):
  cs_loadbalancer_rule_member: fix error handling (#46012)
  cs_instance: fix host migration without volume (#46115)
  cs_instance: doc: fix typo in examples (#46035)
  cs_staticnat: fix sanity (#46037)
  cs_ip_address: use query_api, fixes error handling (#46034)
  cs_resourcelimit: use query_api for error handling (#46036)
  cs_ip_address: fix vpc and network mutually exclusive (#47846)
  cs_network_acl_rule: fix doc and sanity (#47835)
  cs_template: fix KeyError on state=extracted (#48675)
  cs_instance: fix typos in defaults for ip/ip6_ipaddress (#49064)
  cs_physical_network: use name as param for network (#54602)
  cloudstack: fix E326 (#54657)

This will be my last announcement and I most probably leaving the cloudstack 
mailing lists in the next couple of days.

Best wishes
René

[1] https://github.com/ansible/cloudstack-test-container
[2]
https://codecov.io/gh/ansible/ansible/tree/devel/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/cloudstack
[3]
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/0e0735f10ecb64634a4a1c9ac78a36743295417d/.github/BOTMETA.yml#L1471

CFP Open - Cloudstack Collboration Conference NA - 2019

[Giles Sirett]

The Cloudstack Collaboration Conference NA will be held 9-11 September 2019 at 
The Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas !!

http://us.cloudstackcollab.org/

The event is being co-located with Apachecon

There are 2 x tracks of Cloudstack talks, a full day hackathon and evening 
events planned. Attendees are also welcome to attend other  Apaccon talks. It 
presents a great opportunity to learn, share ideas & problems, get to know 
other community members and have some fun together.

We've used the same format (i.e co-locating with Apachecon) for the last two 
years and both events have been a great success. This year is Apache's 20th 
anniversary, so a lot of work is going into making this Apachecon the biggest 
and best yet.


CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS (CFP)
Talks and presentations are what make these events.  The event will only be a 
success if the content is varied and interesting and that is where people on 
these lists come in. It would be great to see as many people in our  community 
as possible submitting talks for the event.


The types of talks that have traditionally worked well at CCC are things like:


  *   User/ operator stories (i.e. how we use cloudstack at foo-org)
  *   Interesting use -cases of cloudstack
  *   Functionality that you've been working on
  *   A project/integration you've been doing with AN OTHER tech & CloudStack
  *   Discussions around functional or community shortfalls
  *   Proposals for new functionality


There's no limit on what you can submit - just make sure it CloudStack related.

Please, everybody consider doing at talk at CCC to showcase some of the amazing 
work that goes on here
The CFP  is now open. Access it via http://us.cloudstackcollab.org/ or directly 
at https://asf.jamhosted.net/cfp.html CFP closes 13 May


SPONSORS
Anybody who's organisation may be able to help with sponsorship: to sponsor 
Cloudstack collaboration conference, we ask interested organisations to sponsor 
Apachecon (our hosts). Details on sponsorship can be found here: 
https://www.apachecon.com/acna19/sponsors.html
As well as the benefits of Apachecon sponsorship, you will be listed as a 
sponsor of CloudStack Collboration Conference and receive specific thanks 
during the keynote/welcome talks


Kind regards
Giles


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RE: Any plan for 4.11 LTS extension ?

[Giles Sirett]

Yes - I see your point
I think the thing to bear in mind here is that there is no *formal* EOL for an 
ACS version or branch - its open source - EOL effectively  means that people 
have lost the interest in maintaining that branch.   If people see a demand for 
more releases on a branch in order to maintain that branch  longer- then I'd 
think it unlikely that anybody here is going to say "no"


 maybe the wording in the wiki is misleading 



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Giles

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-Original Message-
From: Jean-Francois Nadeau  
Sent: 15 March 2019 12:49
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Cc: Riepl, Gregor (SWISS TXT) 
Subject: Re: Any plan for 4.11 LTS extension ?

I can only agree with Haijiao,  that 4.11 deserves a longer time span.
Because many bugs are found naturally between the .0 and .1 of the next LTS 
release with it's adoption.

For us 4.11 could only be adopted with 4.11.2.0 after several bugs needed
to get resolved.   So if 4.11's support stops in July then it's time span
was only 6 months from our perspective.

-jfn

On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 5:34 AM Wido den Hollander  wrote:

>
>
> On 3/15/19 10:20 AM, Riepl, Gregor (SWISS TXT) wrote:
> > Hi Giles,
> >
> >> I would *expect*  4.13.0 (LTS) to be released in Q2, which  will 
> >> supersede the 4.11 branch as the current LTS branch
> >
> > Are you confident that this schedule can be kept?
> > 4.12 is still in RC right now, and I don't think it's a good idea to 
> > rush another major release in just 3 months...
> >
> 4.11.3 will be released first with some bugfixes to keep 4.11 a proper 
> release.
>
> 4.12 needs to go out now so that we can test and prepare for 4.13. I'm 
> confident we can have a stable and proper 4.13 release as long as we 
> don't keep the window open for too long.
>
> The major problem is having the master branch open for a long time, 
> features going in and people not testing it sufficiently.
>
> By having a relatively short period between 4.12 and 4.13 we can catch 
> most bugs and stabilize for a proper LTS.
>
> Wido
>

RE: Any plan for 4.11 LTS extension ?

[Giles Sirett]

Hi Haijiao

I would *expect*  4.13.0 (LTS) to be released in Q2, which  will supersede the 
4.11 branch as the current LTS branch

Kind regards
Giles

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-Original Message-
From: Haijiao <18602198...@163.com> 
Sent: 14 March 2019 06:16
To: dev ; users 
Subject: Any plan for 4.11 LTS extension ?



HI, Community 


According to the LTS roadmap 
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/LTS ,  current 4.11.x is 
supposed to reach EOL on Jul.1 this year. 


Seems the next candidate of LTS is not available yet ( 4.13 ?) ,  do we have 
plan to extend the life of 4.11.x and at least promote another maintenance 
release with estimated date ?, e.g. 4.11.3 in Q2 


Thanks ！

RE: CloudStack Collab Conference Brazil deadline for talk proposals is on 11/02/2019

[Giles Sirett]

Happy to help Mike

Kind regards
Giles

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-Original Message-
From: Tutkowski, Mike  
Sent: 14 February 2019 06:23
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org; users 
Subject: Re: CloudStack Collab Conference Brazil deadline for talk proposals is 
on 11/02/2019

Hi everyone,

Just an FYI that we will soon be going through the presentations submitted via 
the CFP for CCC Brazil.

If anyone is interested in participating in the review process, please respond 
to this e-mail.

Thanks!
Mike

On 2/10/19, 7:13 AM, "Rafael Weingärtner"  wrote:

The call for papers (CFP)


for
the first CloudStack Collab Conference Brazil is approaching. If you have
not submitted your talk proposal, you still have time. It is going to be
the first (of many yet to come) that you cannot miss.

You do not need to have the full presentation ready now, all you need three
little things: (i) an interesting title, (ii) a brief description of the
talk to help the committee with the selection process, and (iii) a message
to the reviewing committee saying why your talk is important and
interesting for the cloud ecosystem.

You cannot miss the opportunity to meet the CloudStack community in
Florianopolis. Therefore, if you do not want to be a speaker, you should
come to watch, network, and enjoy not just the conference, but this
picturesque island with perfect beaches, excellent surfing, and amazing
seafood.
--
Rafael Weingärtner

RE: CloudStack Collab Conference Brazil

[Giles Sirett]

Thanks Rafael - looks good

My guess is that the slots may be pre-defined by the event organisers to sync 
with breaks,etc , but if theyre not... 

A 50 min is quite a long talk.
If you are expecting a lot of good submissions , 30 minute slots could give 11 
people the opportunity  to talk. From experience, the more speakers, the more 
attendees tend to come along with those speakers 



Kind regards
Giles

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-Original Message-
From: Rafael Weingärtner  
Sent: 07 February 2019 15:26
To: dev 
Subject: Re: CloudStack Collab Conference Brazil

Hey Giles, I will try to answer you inline.

Some questions from me:
>
1. how many speaker slots did you agree for the CCC part of the event (i.e.
> how many talks are required)?
>
As we discussed in the PMC, we ended up with a one day track focused on 
CloudStack. This translates to 7 (50min.) talks. By the number of people I 
talked to, I would say that we will have way more talks than slots :((

>
> 2. You mention CFP closes 11 Febuary, and it seems from the website 
> that speakers should submit their talks through 
> http://cfp-flp.thedevconf.com.br/  However, there is no track listed 
> as CCC. There is a "cloud computing"
> track. Is that the one to use ?  It may make sense to tell people on 
> the CCC site which track to use
>

It was in their backlog to fix. I just checked, and it is fixed now.

On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 7:10 AM Giles Sirett 
wrote:

> This is great to see Rafael  - well done to you and Mike for getting 
> this rolling
>
> Some questions from me:
> 1. how many speaker slots did you agree for the CCC part of the event 
> (i.e. how many talks are required)?
> 2. You mention CFP closes 11 Febuary, and it seems from the website 
> that speakers should submit their talks through 
> http://cfp-flp.thedevconf.com.br/  However, there is no track listed 
> as CCC. There is a "cloud computing"
> track. Is that the one to use ?  It may make sense to tell people on 
> the CCC site which track to use
>
>
> Kind regards
> Giles
>
> giles.sir...@shapeblue.com
> www.shapeblue.com
> Amadeus House, Floral Street, London  WC2E 9DPUK @shapeblue
>
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Rafael Weingärtner 
> Sent: 04 February 2019 20:37
> To: dev 
> Cc: users 
> Subject: Re: CloudStack Collab Conference Brazil
>
> Ah Will, sorry for that. I meant to reference the cloudstackcollab
> website, but pressed the send button too fast ;)
>
> On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 6:31 PM Will Stevens  wrote:
>
> > We will try to keep the website, http://br.cloudstackcollab.org/, up
> > to date with the details of the event as new information is available.
> > I just figured I would mention that since Rafael didn't mention it in
> his email.
> > :)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > *Will Stevens*
> > Chief Technology Officer
> > c 514.826.0190
> >
> > <https://goo.gl/NYZ8KK>
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 3:29 PM Rafael Weingärtner <
> > rafaelweingart...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > The first CloudStack Collab Conference Brazil is going to be held in
> > > Florianopolis, in April 2019. It is being run through The Developer
> > > Conference (TDC) <http://www.thedevelopersconference.com.br/en> in
> > Brazil.
> > > When you register <http://br.cloudstackcollab.org/#register> you
> > > will be redirected to the *TDC* website.
> > >
> > > TDC runs a series of conferences every year in Brazil
> > > (Florianopolis, São Paulo, and  Porto Alegre). They have been running
> for over a decade now.
> > > TDC conferences cover a broad range of topics, from management 3.0,
> > > software development, Programming languages (Java, Python, Ruby, and
> > > so one), Cloud, and so on. Their average number of attendees is
> > > about ~4000 per TDC event. Therefore, this event is a great
> > > opportunity for enthusiasts, technicians, and vendors to show
> > > themselves and meet with different IT communities.
> > >
> > > For people from our community, it is an opportunity not just to
> > participate
> > > in CloudStack Collab Brazil
> > > <
> > >
> > http://www.thedevelopersconference.com.br/tdc/2019/florianopolis/trilh
> > a-cloud-stack-colab
> > > >,
> > > but also to join this amazing conference in Brazil. The call for
> > > papers
> > > (CFP)
> > > <
> > >
> > http://www.thedevelopersconference.com.br/tdc/2019/florianopolis/call4
> > pa

RE: CloudStack Collab Conference Brazil

[Giles Sirett]

This is great to see Rafael  - well done to you and Mike for getting this 
rolling

Some questions from me:
1. how many speaker slots did you agree for the CCC part of the event (i.e. how 
many talks are required)?
2. You mention CFP closes 11 Febuary, and it seems from the website that 
speakers should submit their talks through http://cfp-flp.thedevconf.com.br/
 However, there is no track listed as CCC. There is a "cloud computing" track. 
Is that the one to use ?  It may make sense to tell people on the CCC site 
which track to use


Kind regards
Giles

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-Original Message-
From: Rafael Weingärtner  
Sent: 04 February 2019 20:37
To: dev 
Cc: users 
Subject: Re: CloudStack Collab Conference Brazil

Ah Will, sorry for that. I meant to reference the cloudstackcollab website, but 
pressed the send button too fast ;)

On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 6:31 PM Will Stevens  wrote:

> We will try to keep the website, http://br.cloudstackcollab.org/, up 
> to date with the details of the event as new information is available.  
> I just figured I would mention that since Rafael didn't mention it in his 
> email.
> :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> *Will Stevens*
> Chief Technology Officer
> c 514.826.0190
>
> 
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 3:29 PM Rafael Weingärtner < 
> rafaelweingart...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The first CloudStack Collab Conference Brazil is going to be held in 
> > Florianopolis, in April 2019. It is being run through The Developer 
> > Conference (TDC)  in
> Brazil.
> > When you register  you 
> > will be redirected to the *TDC* website.
> >
> > TDC runs a series of conferences every year in Brazil 
> > (Florianopolis, São Paulo, and  Porto Alegre). They have been running for 
> > over a decade now.
> > TDC conferences cover a broad range of topics, from management 3.0, 
> > software development, Programming languages (Java, Python, Ruby, and 
> > so one), Cloud, and so on. Their average number of attendees is 
> > about ~4000 per TDC event. Therefore, this event is a great 
> > opportunity for enthusiasts, technicians, and vendors to show 
> > themselves and meet with different IT communities.
> >
> > For people from our community, it is an opportunity not just to
> participate
> > in CloudStack Collab Brazil
> > <
> >
> http://www.thedevelopersconference.com.br/tdc/2019/florianopolis/trilh
> a-cloud-stack-colab
> > >,
> > but also to join this amazing conference in Brazil. The call for 
> > papers
> > (CFP)
> > <
> >
> http://www.thedevelopersconference.com.br/tdc/2019/florianopolis/call4
> papers-en
> > >
> > is open through 11 February 2019 (Hard deadline). People are also 
> > welcome to submit talks to other tracks.  Speakers will receive free 
> > registration for the entire conference. The cost per track is BRL 165 (~45 
> > USD).
> > Therefore, there is no single price for the conference; you only pay 
> > for what you need. This price is for the early birds, prices will 
> > rise up on
> 12
> > February. After 12 February, the prices will rise to BRL 220, and 
> > later
> on
> > 26 March, to BRL 290.
> >
> > The event where CloudStack Collab will take place is TDC 
> > Florianopolis, which will be held in Florianopolis between 23-27  of April 
> > 2019.
> > Florianopolis is the capital of Brazil’s Santa Catarina state, which 
> > is often called “the best place to live in Brazil”. Florianopolis is 
> > a thriving destination for its perfect beaches, excellent surfing, 
> > amazing seafood, and juxtaposition of a modern megacity with 
> > 16th-century
> colonial
> > fortresses and relaxed markets and parks. For more information 
> > please
> visit
> > Florianopolis <
> http://turismo.sc.gov.br/en/destinos/grande-florianopolis/
> > >.
> > So, do not miss the opportunity to submit your talks, and to share 
> > with your friends. Let’s make the most of the first CloudStack Collab 
> > Brazil!
> >
> > One note to this event, depending on your nationality, a tourist 
> > visa may be required or exempted. The ultimate authority on whether 
> > you need a
> visa
> > or not is the Brazilian Consulate in your country.
> >
> > If you guys have problems, doubts or suggestions, please feel free 
> > to
> mail
> > me.
> >
>


--
Rafael Weingärtner

CFP: Cloudstack EUG Dec 13th

[Giles Sirett]

Hi all
The next Cloudstack European User group will be held in London on December 13th

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cloudstack-european-user-group-meetup-tickets-50608731077?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Does anybody from this community want to come and present a talk? - could be on 
use-case, ongoing projects, basically anything cloudstack related

Please ping me if you're interested


Kind regards
Giles


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RE: Ansible 2.7: CloudStack related changes and future

[Giles Sirett]

Rene
Really sorry to hear that. I want to say a massive thank you for all of your 
work with the ansible/cloudstack modules.  I know lots of people have 
benefitted from the modules, a testament to some very cool work

Thank you and good luck with whatever's next for you

Kind regards
Giles

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-Original Message-
From: Rene Moser  
Sent: 08 October 2018 12:43
To: us...@cloudstack.apache.org; dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Ansible 2.7: CloudStack related changes and future

Hi all

First, please note I am leaving my current job by the end of November and I 
don't see that CloudStack will play any role in my professional future.

As a result, I official announce the end of my maintenance for the Ansible 
CloudStack modules with the release of Ansible v2.8.0 in spring 2019.

If anyone is interested to take over, please let me know so I can officially 
introduce him/her to the Ansible community.

Thanks for all the support and joy I have had with CloudStack and the community!

Ansible v2.7.0 is released with the following, CloudStack related changes:

David Passante (1):
  cloudstack: new module cs_disk_offering (#41795)

Rene Moser (4):
  cs_firewall: fix idempotence and tests for cloudstack v4.11 (#42458)
  cs_vpc: fix disabled or wrong vpc offering taken (#42465)
  cs_pod: workaround for 4.11 API break (#43944)
  cs_template: implement update and revamp (#37015)

Yoan Blanc (1):
  cs instance root_disk size update resizes the root volume (#43817)

nishiokay (2):
  [cloudstack] fix cs_host example (#42419)
  Update cs_storage_pool.py (#42454)


Best wishes
René

RE: Open Summit CFP anyone ?

[Giles Sirett]

Andrija
(its Dag doing the talk not Dan )

I don’t think that there will be any overlap - should be fine. I'll mention to 
Dag to ping you directly when hes back from holiday so you can coordinate



Kind regards
Giles

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-Original Message-
From: Andrija Panic  
Sent: 27 June 2018 00:51
To: dev 
Cc: Dag Sonstebo 
Subject: Re: Open Summit CFP anyone ?

Submitted...

On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 at 21:12, Andrija Panic  wrote:

> So, as discussed with Mike... I will submit similar thing as in 
> Berlin, just about running KVM with ACS (and SF) all opensource etc...
>
> Giles, perhaps it would be good to make sure I don't overlap with 
> Dan's talk, not sure how much he will dive into KVM options/path with ACS...
>
> Thx
>
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018, 20:41 Andrija Panic  wrote:
>
>> That is OK from my side, but they insist on open source (acs is...) 
>> but not sure about SF, at least what I read on CFP page...could you 
>> give it a read ?
>>
>> Otherwise I'm perfectly fine!
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018, 18:34 Tutkowski, Mike 
>> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> You could submit the talk you just did in Berlin. It’s a different 
>>> conference in a different location, so I think doing the same 
>>> presentation is perfectly fine.
>>>
>>> > On Jun 26, 2018, at 4:50 AM, Andrija Panic 
>>> > 
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I would love to, yes, just don't have concrete idea atm...?
>>> >
>>> >> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018, 11:58 Giles Sirett 
>>> >> 
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> I know Dag (in CC) has submitted a "Intro to cloudstack" talk -  
>>> >> but
>>> he's
>>> >> away on holiday at the moment
>>> >>
>>> >> Andrija - are you still planning on submitting something ?
>>> >>
>>> >> Kind regards
>>> >> Giles
>>> >>
>>> >> giles.sir...@shapeblue.com
>>> >> www.shapeblue.com
>>> >> 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London  WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> -----Original Message-
>>> >> From: Stephan Seitz 
>>> >> Sent: 21 June 2018 16:54
>>> >> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
>>> >> Subject: Re: Open Summit CFP anyone ?
>>> >>
>>> >> Hey!
>>> >>
>>> >> I'm also interested :) Actually planning a talk abount attaching
>>> >> active/active iSCSI targets w/ TCQ and ALUA capability to a ceph
>>> cluster.
>>> >>
>>> >> Am Donnerstag, den 21.06.2018, 15:43 + schrieb Tutkowski, Mike:
>>> >>> I am interested.
>>> >>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> On Jun 21, 2018, at 2:38 AM, Giles Sirett <
>>> giles.sir...@shapeblue.com>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Hi Andrija
>>> >>>> - yes I think it would be a great idea for Cloudstack to have some
>>> >> talks there.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Open source summit appears to be Linux Foundations replacement for
>>> >>>> Linuxcon/cloudopen - people from this community have spoken at these
>>> >>>> before and had good attendance
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Lets coordinate on here some submissions.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> First of all, anybody else fancy submitting for this ?
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Kind regards
>>> >>>> Giles
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> giles.sir...@shapeblue.com
>>> >>>> www.shapeblue.com
>>> >>>> 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London  WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> -Original Message-
>>> >>>> From: Andrija Panic 
>>> >>>> Sent: 20 June 2018 21:52
>>> >>>> To: dev 
>>> >>>> Subject: Open Summit CFP anyone ?
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Hi all,
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Just wondering if anyone submitted CFP here:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>
>>> https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/open-source-summit-europe-2018/program/cfp/
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Sounds like an interesting place to present the products (ACS) - if
>>> >> anyone interested, I'm happy to share the work(load) and present
>>> jointly,
>>> >> or similar...
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Deadline for CFP is 1st July...
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Anyone?
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Cheers,
>>> >>>> Andrija
>>> >> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
>>> >>
>>> >> Stephan Seitz
>>> >>
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>>

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RE: Open Summit CFP anyone ?

[Giles Sirett]

I know Dag (in CC) has submitted a "Intro to cloudstack" talk -  but he's away 
on holiday at the moment

Andrija - are you still planning on submitting something ?

Kind regards
Giles

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-Original Message-
From: Stephan Seitz  
Sent: 21 June 2018 16:54
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: Open Summit CFP anyone ?

Hey!

I'm also interested :) Actually planning a talk abount attaching active/active 
iSCSI targets w/ TCQ and ALUA capability to a ceph cluster.

Am Donnerstag, den 21.06.2018, 15:43 + schrieb Tutkowski, Mike:
> I am interested.
> 
> > 
> > On Jun 21, 2018, at 2:38 AM, Giles Sirett  
> > wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Andrija
> > - yes I think it would be a great idea for Cloudstack to have some talks 
> > there.
> > 
> > Open source summit appears to be Linux Foundations replacement for 
> > Linuxcon/cloudopen - people from this community have spoken at these 
> > before and had good attendance
> > 
> > Lets coordinate on here some submissions.
> > 
> > First of all, anybody else fancy submitting for this ?
> > 
> > Kind regards
> > Giles
> > 
> > giles.sir...@shapeblue.com
> > www.shapeblue.com
> > 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London  WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Andrija Panic  
> > Sent: 20 June 2018 21:52
> > To: dev 
> > Subject: Open Summit CFP anyone ?
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Just wondering if anyone submitted CFP here:
> > 
> > https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/open-source-summit-europe-2018/program/cfp/
> > 
> > Sounds like an interesting place to present the products (ACS) - if anyone 
> > interested, I'm happy to share the work(load) and present jointly, or 
> > similar...
> > 
> > Deadline for CFP is 1st July...
> > 
> > Anyone?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Andrija
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Stephan Seitz

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RE: Open Summit CFP anyone ?

[Giles Sirett]

Hi Andrija
 - yes I think it would be a great idea for Cloudstack to have some talks there.

Open source summit appears to be Linux Foundations replacement for 
Linuxcon/cloudopen - people from this community have spoken at these before and 
had good attendance

Lets coordinate on here some submissions.

First of all, anybody else fancy submitting for this ?

Kind regards
Giles

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-Original Message-
From: Andrija Panic  
Sent: 20 June 2018 21:52
To: dev 
Subject: Open Summit CFP anyone ?

Hi all,

Just wondering if anyone submitted CFP here:

https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/open-source-summit-europe-2018/program/cfp/

Sounds like an interesting place to present the products (ACS) - if anyone 
interested, I'm happy to share the work(load) and present jointly, or similar...

Deadline for CFP is 1st July...

Anyone?

Cheers,
Andrija

RE: Welcoming Mike as the new Apache CloudStack VP

[Giles Sirett]

Wido - thanks for all of your hard work on the project.

Mike - many congratulations

Kind regards
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-Original Message-
From: Wido den Hollander  
Sent: 26 March 2018 15:11
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org; us...@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Welcoming Mike as the new Apache CloudStack VP

Hi all,

It's been a great pleasure working with the CloudStack project as the ACS VP 
over the past year.

A big thank you from my side for everybody involved with the project in the 
last year.

Hereby I would like to announce that Mike Tutkowski has been elected to replace 
me as the Apache Cloudstack VP in our annual VP rotation.

Mike has a long history with the project and I am are happy welcome him as the 
new VP for CloudStack.

Welcome Mike!

Thanks,

Wido

RE: Marketing CCC Montreal

[Giles Sirett]

You are correct.
The tweet was incorrect - has been deleted and a new tweet posted 

Its SEPTEMBER  everybody 

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-Original Message-
From: Khosrow Moossavi  
Sent: 22 March 2018 14:59
To: dev 
Cc: users ;  
; market...@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: Marketing CCC Montreal

Well whatever the dates it will not be in May, it will be in September!




On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 10:55 AM, Will Stevens 
wrote:

> The dates are somewhat unclear, so its not really 'wrong' yet.  We 
> know we start on the 24th.  We are not sure what the second day we 
> will get from ApacheCon is yet.  I am working on getting a space 
> together for a hackathon day on either the 25th or 26th depending on 
> what the second day we get from ApacheCon is, so there are still some 
> logistics in play still.
>
> I am advertising the 24-26th in the absence of official details as I 
> am confident I can get another space online for a hackathon day.  More 
> details will be available once we get details from ApacheCon and I 
> work out a space for the hackathon.
>
> I hope that is not too difficult to understand.
>
> Cheers,
>
> *Will Stevens*
> Chief Technology Officer
> c 514.826.0190
>
> 
>
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 10:49 AM, Khosrow Moossavi 
>  >
> wrote:
>
> > Somehow related, the tweet sent out earlier today, has the date wrong.
> >
> > https://twitter.com/CloudStack/status/976819870426902530?s=19
> >
> >
> > On Mar 22, 2018 10:37, "Will Stevens"  wrote:
> >
> > > Hey Everyone,
> > > We need your help to promote the visibility of the CCC conference 
> > > we
> are
> > > running later this year in September.
> > >
> > > I have put together an information website to help us promote the CCC:
> > > http://ca.cloudstackcollab.org/
> > >
> > > I will keep the website updated with additional detail as we get 
> > > more information.
> > >
> > > *PLEASE NOTE: Call For Papers closes on March 30th.  Please get 
> > > your
> > topics
> > > in ASAP.*  On that note, make sure the title of your talk includes 
> > > the
> > word
> > > 'CloudStack' so we are able to get the talk in the correct CCC track.
> > >
> > > Additionally, in order to get more visibility for the event, 
> > > please consider adding the following footer to your email 
> > > signature (ideally linking to the CCC site).  The footer is available 
> > > here:
> > > http://ca.cloudstackcollab.org/img/ccc_mtl_footer.png
> > >
> > > Let us know if you have any questions...
> > >
> > > *Will Stevens*
> > >
> > >
> > > * *
> > >
> >
>

RE: CFP- Cloudstack collab conference 2018

[Giles Sirett]

Yes Rafael is right – talks are 45 minutes



Kind regards
Giles

From: Rafael Weingärtner <rafaelweingart...@gmail.com>
Sent: 19 March 2018 14:04
To: market...@cloudstack.apache.org
Cc: us...@cloudstack.apache.org; dev@cloudstack.apache.org; 
<priv...@cloudstack.apache.org> <priv...@cloudstack.apache.org>; 
kmcgr...@apache.org
Subject: Re: CFP- Cloudstack collab conference 2018

I believe talks will be standard 45min. each, including the time for Q


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On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 10:57 AM, Dag Sonstebo 
<dag.sonst...@shapeblue.com<mailto:dag.sonst...@shapeblue.com>> wrote:
Sounds good Giles - will get the submissions kicked off.

If we have limited space / single track / limited timeslots do we need to set 
some guidelines put together for talk lengths?

Regards,
Dag Sonstebo
Cloud Architect
ShapeBlue

On 19/03/2018, 10:18, "Giles Sirett" 
<giles.sir...@shapeblue.com<mailto:giles.sir...@shapeblue.com>> wrote:

All
CFP - CLOUDSTACK COLLAB 2018 - DEADLINE 30 MARCH

We have an agreement in principle to co-locate this years Cloudstack 
conference with Apachecon
Montreal  24-25 September
https://www.apachecon.com/
As last year in Miami, we will be having a "conference in a conference" - 
so tickets will allow people to experience the whole Apachecon event

There are still some details still to work out (on the name, exact format 
and exactly what facilities we can have), but the key thing right now  is to 
get talks  submitted. We're using the Apachecon CFP:
https://www.apachecon.com/acna18/

I apologise for the short notice, but the CFP closes on March 30.
There is no way to tell the CFP that you are submitting something 
specifically for Cloudstack - so please tag your talk title with 
"[Cloudstack]:talk name"

There is lots to do around sponsorship, exact format, etc but the key 
deadline this stage is to get plenty of talks submitted

Other things worth considering:

  1.  We will need a panel to sift/select talks. Wido led on this last 
year. MikeT, do you want to lead this year ?
  2.  It will be important that we encourage interested companies to help 
sponsor the event. Anybody who think their company may sponsor, please ping 
Kevin A. McGrail 
kmcgr...@apache.org<mailto:kmcgr...@apache.org><mailto:kmcgr...@apache.org<mailto:kmcgr...@apache.org>>

Kind regards
Giles


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--
Rafael Weingärtner

CFP- Cloudstack collab conference 2018

[Giles Sirett]

All
CFP - CLOUDSTACK COLLAB 2018 - DEADLINE 30 MARCH

We have an agreement in principle to co-locate this years Cloudstack conference 
with Apachecon
Montreal  24-25 September
https://www.apachecon.com/
As last year in Miami, we will be having a "conference in a conference" - so 
tickets will allow people to experience the whole Apachecon event

There are still some details still to work out (on the name, exact format and 
exactly what facilities we can have), but the key thing right now  is to get 
talks  submitted. We're using the Apachecon CFP:
https://www.apachecon.com/acna18/

I apologise for the short notice, but the CFP closes on March 30.
There is no way to tell the CFP that you are submitting something specifically 
for Cloudstack - so please tag your talk title with "[Cloudstack]:talk name"

There is lots to do around sponsorship, exact format, etc but the key deadline 
this stage is to get plenty of talks submitted

Other things worth considering:

  1.  We will need a panel to sift/select talks. Wido led on this last year. 
MikeT, do you want to lead this year ?
  2.  It will be important that we encourage interested companies to help 
sponsor the event. Anybody who think their company may sponsor, please ping 
Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org

Kind regards
Giles


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RE: [DISCUSS] Relax strict requirement of JIRA ID for PRs

[Giles Sirett]

Boris does have a valid point

We have to imagine a user - think of somebody installing cloudstack long  after 
a version release.

They hit  problem, they google that problem. If its already been seen, they 
will *usually* find a JIRA ticket which describes their problem and (depending 
on whether it has been fixed) describe the fix, version numbers,etc

Think of JIRA as a documentation platform

As a non-developer, trying to decipher a PR and its comments simply does not 
give me that same functionality. It may give people on this list what they 
want, but not necessarily users

Having said all of that, the discussion here has been about moving to Github 
issues. AKAIK, that would recreate the functionality that I describe above - so 
his may be a moot point






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-Original Message-
From: Daan Hoogland  
Sent: 14 March 2018 10:05
To: dev 
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Relax strict requirement of JIRA ID for PRs

Let me add to the below that I do think a ticketing system is a big help for 
keeping track of *un*implemented changes and *un*fixed bugs.

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 11:04 AM, Daan Hoogland 
wrote:

> Boris, I hate to be strongly opinionated but I have to violently 
> disagree with you on some things here;
>
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 9:48 AM, Boris Stoyanov < 
> boris.stoya...@shapeblue.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I do understand your point as developers if you want to fix something 
>> just open the PR and not deal with any extra details like JIRA 
>> tickets and etc, but I must say that JIRA tickets are quite often 
>> looked up from users as they experience an issue.
>
> ​It is not more or less effort for users to look up github PRs than 
> Jira tickets. They still need to be clever about search terms and 
> still might miss out.
> ​
>
>
>> Let’s say we’ve fixed an annoying UI bug in master and there’s no 
>> ticket for it in JIRA. As a user, if you try to search for this 
>> particular issue where would you go? In JIRA or GitHub? How would you 
>> know which release to pickup if you’re just an infrastructure guy and not 
>> following Github.
>>
> ​What is following here and why not Github but Jira.​ ​
>
>
>>
>> Tracking every change with such tool is proven good practice in SDLC,
>
> ​No it is not. Absolutely not. That is what we have revision control
> systems for. Your good practice is only true for enterprise controlled
> projects. In cloudstack there are a lot of wild forks because this
> enterprisy way of controlling change has pushed people away from
> mainstream. This is a force to be reckoned with and we can not completely
> ban it, but we have to minimise it if we want to survive as project.
> ​
>
>
>> it brings visibility and it’s a tool meant to be used not only from
>> developers, but from everyone involved in the project.
>>
> ​How is this true for Jira anywhere near as much as it is true for github?​
>
>
>
>>
>> I also got the feeling that lacking a JIRA ticket could become a common
>> practice in community submission and it’s yet another reason for me to be
>> -1 on this.
>
> ​Another reason to be very much +1 on it. That is a good thing. Think
> about it. People submistting features and bugfixes instead of asking for
> them in a ticket. That is great.
> ​
>
>
>> Also I don’t think it’s causing big overhead, since it’s being updated
>> mostly automatically.
>>
> ​No it is not. What is done automatically? put in progress?? closing?
> undertest status? Only noise is added to those tickets automatically.
> ​
>
>
>>
>> Boris Stoyanov
>>
>>
>> boris.stoya...@shapeblue.com
>> www.shapeblue.com
>> 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London  WC2N 4HSUK
>> @shapeblue
>>
>>
>>
>> > On 13 Mar 2018, at 17:01, Khosrow Moossavi 
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm completely +1 on using GH as source of truth, both PR and issue
>> wise,
>> > with Daan comment regarding Apache rules in mind.
>> > At least it doesn't need to have "yet another" integration to do
>> automated
>> > actions on an issue (such as auto close an issue by "Fixes NUMBER",
>> > "Closes NUMBER") directly from commit or PR body.
>> >
>> > Khosrow Moossavi
>> > CloudOps
>> >
>> > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 10:11 AM, Syed Ahmed 
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I agree with the relaxation as Rohit pointed out. At this point we
>> should
>> >> ask if Jira is really needed. Most people here I believe agree that it
>> is
>> >> not. The only reason we have Jira is to track releases. This could
>> easily
>> >> be replicated in GitHub as I see that GitHub is the place where we all
>> >> collaborate. I would be completely in if we use GitHub issues and like
>> it
>> >> with Jira as we do with our PRs.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 10:03 AM Rafael Weingärtner <
>> >> rafaelweingart...@gmail.com> 

Cloudstack collab conference 2018

[Giles Sirett]

All
I've been speaking with Rich Bowen about the feasibility of holding another 
Cloudstack Collaboration Conference in conjunction with Apachecon

https://www.apachecon.com/acna18/schedule.html
Apachecon is 24-27 September, Montreal


Rich has said that we can have a room for Monday 24th  + one other day (I'm, 
hoping that would be Tuesday) , so CCC could be 24-25 September

We could probably squeeze in 20 talks across the 2 days and would look to bolt 
on a hackathon at the end on Wednesday 26th (if Apachecon isn't able to 
accommodate the hackathon, we do know a friendly company in Montreal who *may* 
be able to host that)

WE NEED TO MOVE QUICKLY: The CFP for apachecon is already open and closes March 
30
So, I'd like to get a broad feeling here of support to do this


Theres not much needed to make this happen:

  1.  Confirm with Rich that we want to do this
  2.  Get http://cloudstackcollab.org/ updated - volunteers needed
  3.  Point our community at the exisiting CFP  - and then help on the 
submissions process - volunteers needed
  4.  Promote, etc


Kind regards
Giles


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RE: I'd like to introduce you to Khosrow

[Giles Sirett]

Welcome to the community Khosrow


Kind regards
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-Original Message-
From: Simon Weller [mailto:swel...@ena.com.INVALID] 
Sent: 23 February 2018 01:09
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: RE: I'd like to introduce you to Khosrow

Welcome Khosrow.

Simon Weller/615-312-6068

-Original Message-
From: Khosrow Moossavi [kmooss...@cloudops.com]
Received: Thursday, 22 Feb 2018, 7:00PM
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org [dev@cloudstack.apache.org]
Subject: Re: I'd like to introduce you to Khosrow

Thank you Pierre-Luc,
I'm super excited to be part of the community.

On Feb 22, 2018 18:42, "Rafael Weingärtner" 
wrote:

> Welcome!
> Congratualations for the great job done so far...
>
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 8:40 PM, Pierre-Luc Dion 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi fellow colleagues,
> >
> > I might be a bit late with this email...
> >
> > I'd like to introduce Khosrow Moossavi, who recently join our team and
> his
> > focus is currently exclusively on dev for Cloudstack with cloud.ca.
> >
> > Our 2 current priorities are:
> > -fixing VRs,SVMs to run has HVM VMs in xenserver.
> > - redesign, or rewrite, the remote management vpn for vpc, poc in
> progress
> > for IKEv2...
> >
> >
> >
> > Some of you might have interact with him already.
> >
> >
> > Also, we are going to be more active for the upcomming 4.12 release.
> >
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Rafael Weingärtner
>

RE: 4.11 Release announcment

[Giles Sirett]

Kris
My bad - I was working from a summary list 

Kind regards
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-Original Message-
From: Kris Sterckx [mailto:kris.ster...@nuagenetworks.net] 
Sent: 06 February 2018 12:25
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Cc: market...@cloudstack.apache.org; Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com>
Subject: Re: 4.11 Release announcment

Hi Giles ,


Impressive !


For completeness : following features are missing in your list :

* Extra DHCP options support  (Nuage Networks)(CLOUDSTACK-9776)

* Physical network migration  (CLOUDSTACK-10024)  ,  better take it separate as 
this is generic development

* Nuage VSP 5.0 support and caching of NuageVsp ID's   (CLOUDSTACK-10053)


Kris


On 6 February 2018 at 10:36, Giles Sirett <giles.sir...@shapeblue.com>
wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Rohit and I are wording the announcement for the 4.11 release
>
> I'm trying to get a few quotes for the announcements from ACS  users
>
>
> Something along the lines of "we're excited about this new version of 
> Cloudstack because of"
>
>
> If anybody here is able to provide a quote, can you please ping 
> something over to me by Thursday 12:00 GMT
>
>
> List of whats new below
>
>
> New Features and Improvements
> *Support for XenServer 7.1 and 7.2, and improved support for
> VMware 6.5.
> *Host-HA<http://www.shapeblue.com/host-ha-for-kvm-hosts-in-
> cloudstack/> framework and HA-provider for KVM hosts with and NFS as 
> primary storage, and a new background polling task manager.
> *Secure agents communication: new certificate authority framework<
> http://www.shapeblue.com/cloudstack-ca-framework/> and a default 
> built-in root CA provider.
> *New network type - L2<https://cwiki.apache.org/
> confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=74680920>.
> *CloudStack metrics exporter for Prometheus<https://prometheus.io/
> >.
> *Cloudian Hyperstore<https://cloudian.com/products/hyperstore/>
> Connector for CloudStack.
> *Annotation feature for CloudStack entities such as hosts.
> *Separation of volume snapshot creation of primary storage and
> backing operation on secondary storage.
> *Limit admin access from specified CIDRs.
> *Expansion of Management IP Range.
> *Dedication of public IPs to SSVM and CPVM.
> *Support for separate subnet for SSVM and CPVM.
> *Bypass secondary storage template copy/transfer for KVM.
> *Support for multi-disk OVA template for VMware.
> *Storage overprovisioning for local storage.
> *LDAP mapping with domain scope, and mapping of LDAP group to an
> account.
> *Move user across accounts.
> *Support for "VSD managed" networks with Nuage Networks.
> *Extend config drive support for user data, metadata, and password
> (Nuage networks).
> *Nuage domain template selection per VPC and support for network
> migration.
> *Managed storage enhancements.
> *Support for watchdog timer to KVM Instances.
> *Support for Secondary IPv6 Addresses and Subnets.
> *IPv6 Prefix Delegation support in Basic Networking.
> *Ability to specific mac address while deploying VM or adding a
> nic to a VM.
> *VMware dvswitch security policies configuration in network
> offering
> *Allow more than 7 nics to be added to a VMware VM.
> *Network rate<http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/
> cloudstack-administration/en/latest/service_offerings.html#
> network-throttling> usage for guest offering for VRs.
> *Usage metrics for VM snapshot on primary storage
> *Enable netscaler inline mode.
> *NCC integration in CloudStack.
> *The retirement of Midonet network plugin.
> UI Improvements
> *High precision of metrics in the dashboard.
> *Event timeline - filter related events.
> *Navigation improvements:
> * VRs to account, network, instances
> * Network and VRs to instances.
> *List view improvements:
> * As applicable, account, zone, network columns in list views.
> * States and related columns with icons in various infrastructure
> entity views.
> * Additional columns in several list views.
> *New columns for additional information.
> *Bulk operation support for stopping and destroying VMs (known the
> issue of manual refreshing required).
> Structural Improvements
> *Embedded Jetty and improved CloudStack management server
> configuration.
> *Improved suppo

4.11 Release announcment

[Giles Sirett]

Hi all

Rohit and I are wording the announcement for the 4.11 release

I'm trying to get a few quotes for the announcements from ACS  users


Something along the lines of "we're excited about this new version of 
Cloudstack because of"


If anybody here is able to provide a quote, can you please ping something over 
to me by Thursday 12:00 GMT


List of whats new below


New Features and Improvements
*Support for XenServer 7.1 and 7.2, and improved support for VMware 6.5.
*Host-HA 
framework and HA-provider for KVM hosts with and NFS as primary storage, and a 
new background polling task manager.
*Secure agents communication: new certificate authority 
framework and a default 
built-in root CA provider.
*New network type - 
L2.
*CloudStack metrics exporter for Prometheus.
*Cloudian Hyperstore 
Connector for CloudStack.
*Annotation feature for CloudStack entities such as hosts.
*Separation of volume snapshot creation of primary storage and backing 
operation on secondary storage.
*Limit admin access from specified CIDRs.
*Expansion of Management IP Range.
*Dedication of public IPs to SSVM and CPVM.
*Support for separate subnet for SSVM and CPVM.
*Bypass secondary storage template copy/transfer for KVM.
*Support for multi-disk OVA template for VMware.
*Storage overprovisioning for local storage.
*LDAP mapping with domain scope, and mapping of LDAP group to an 
account.
*Move user across accounts.
*Support for "VSD managed" networks with Nuage Networks.
*Extend config drive support for user data, metadata, and password 
(Nuage networks).
*Nuage domain template selection per VPC and support for network 
migration.
*Managed storage enhancements.
*Support for watchdog timer to KVM Instances.
*Support for Secondary IPv6 Addresses and Subnets.
*IPv6 Prefix Delegation support in Basic Networking.
*Ability to specific mac address while deploying VM or adding a nic to 
a VM.
*VMware dvswitch security policies configuration in network offering
*Allow more than 7 nics to be added to a VMware VM.
*Network 
rate
 usage for guest offering for VRs.
*Usage metrics for VM snapshot on primary storage
*Enable netscaler inline mode.
*NCC integration in CloudStack.
*The retirement of Midonet network plugin.
UI Improvements
*High precision of metrics in the dashboard.
*Event timeline - filter related events.
*Navigation improvements:
* VRs to account, network, instances
* Network and VRs to instances.
*List view improvements:
* As applicable, account, zone, network columns in list views.
* States and related columns with icons in various infrastructure 
entity views.
* Additional columns in several list views.
*New columns for additional information.
*Bulk operation support for stopping and destroying VMs (known the 
issue of manual refreshing required).
Structural Improvements
*Embedded Jetty and improved CloudStack management server configuration.
*Improved support for Java 8 in built artifacts/modules, packaging, and 
systemvm template.
*Debian 9 based systemvm template:
* Patches system VM without reboot, reduces VR/systemvm startup time to 
few tens of seconds.
* Faster console proxy startup and service availability.
* Improved support for redundant virtual routers, conntrackd and 
keepalived.
* Improved strongswan provided VPN (s2s and remote access).
* Packer based systemvm template generation and reduced disk size.
* Several optimization and improvements.







Kind regards
Giles


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change required to cloudstack.apache.org

[Giles Sirett]

The survey on the ACS website has stopped working (I think because the survey 
provider has updated their URL)

Could somebody with the required karma please make a change to the file

http://cloudstack.apache.org/survey.html


EXISITING HTML

href="//www.formwize.com/run/survey3.cfm?id=7191"


NEW HTML

href="https://www.formwize.com/run/survey3.cfm?idx=505d040e080008;


It needs changing on both the iframe source and the link

Kind regards
Giles


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Cloudstack events 2018 (including CCC)

[Giles Sirett]

All


There a number of ACS related events planned for this year.  Just thought I'd 
send out a summary if people want to get any of these in their calendars

As always, tweeting/blogging/etc to promote any of these is always welcomed




-CSEUG  in Frankfurt, Germany 28th February  
https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/german-CloudStack-user-group/events/246861772/



- Cloudstack and Ceph Day, London,  19th  April (venue and link TBA)



-Apache EU Roadshow, Berlin, 13-14 June https://apachecon.com/

There is a cloud track at this event  and think that we should have a good 
number of ACS talks on that track. I'd encourage people to submit talks for this





-Apachecon/CCC - September

As per last year, we're going to co-locate Cloudstack Collaboration conference 
with Apachecon , Montreal , 24-29 September. http://apachecon.com/

Most of the logistics will be handled by the Apachecon team . However, we (the 
ACS community) we have to come up with the CCC schedule (and, obviously, submit 
talks)






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Cloudstack meetup - Germany

[Giles Sirett]

https://www.meetup.com/german-CloudStack-user-group/events/246861772/?eventId=246861772

Hi all - from Maria (in CC)

We are currently planning our next German CS Meetup in Frankfurt. The event 
will take place on February the 28th and will be hosted by proIO GmbH.

Since our last event had limited community participation we are hoping to reach 
more people this time. As always we would appreciate any support to promote the 
upcoming Meetup and your participation/visit would be more than welcome :) :)

Currently we have three potential speakers who would be very interested in 
presenting their topics:

  1.  Rene Moser, SWISS TXT AG
  2.  Swen Brüseke, proIO GmbH
  3.  Sebastian Bretschneider, itelligence Global Managed Services GmbH

Swen is also talking to additional candidates from the Netherlands and the UK 
but could not yet confirm their attendance.

This location is:Telehouse Deutschland GmbH
Kleyerstrasse 75-87
60326 Frankfurt am Main

The event has already been posted on Meetup : 
https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/german-CloudStack-user-group/events/246861772/

So please let us know if you are able to join us and if we could also announce 
the meetup (once the final agenda is set) on the LinkedIn CloudStack User group?

Looking forward to hearing from you soon


Kind regards
Giles


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cloudstack Wikipedia page

[Giles Sirett]

Somebody has made an edit to the cloudstack wikipedia entry

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=819108440=815849996

In essence, they have changed the start of the history section to give a 
history of the cloud.com domain name. I do not think that is either relevant or 
appropriate to the history of cloudstack itself

Has anybody here got experience in editing on Wikipedia and able to 
object/change this edit ?

I'm happy to take this task on, but have no experience in the process, 
policies, etc


Kind regards
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RE: [PROPOSE] RM for 4.11

[Giles Sirett]

We built said statue at collab in Miami this year..
https://twitter.com/shapeblue/status/936194768589254656


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-Original Message-
From: Nux! [mailto:n...@li.nux.ro] 
Sent: 29 November 2017 16:25
To: dev 
Subject: Re: [PROPOSE] RM for 4.11

That's great, Rohit!

I'm in talks with some folks to build you a statue. ;-) (Hope it'll turn out 
better than Ronaldo's..)

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- Original Message -
> From: "Rohit Yadav" 
> To: "dev" 
> Sent: Wednesday, 29 November, 2017 10:14:54
> Subject: [PROPOSE] RM for 4.11

> Hi All,
> 
> I’d like to put myself forward as release manager for 4.11. The 4.11 
> releases will be the next major version LTS release since 4.9 and will 
> be supported for 20 months per the LTS manifesto [2] until 1 July 2019.
> 
> Daan Hoogland and Paul Angus will assist during the process and all of 
> us will be the gatekeepers for reviewing/testing/merging the PRs, 
> others will be welcome to support as well.
> 
> As a community member, I will try to help get PRs reviewed, tested and 
> merged (as would everyone else I hope) but with an RM hat on I would 
> like to see if we can make that role less inherently life-consuming 
> and put the onus back on the community to get stuff done.
> 
> Here the plan:
> 1. As RM I put forward the freeze date of the 8th of January 2018, 
> hoping for community approval.
> 2. After the freeze date (8th Jan) until GA release, features will not 
> be allowed and fixes only as long as there are blocker issues outstanding.
> Fixes for other issues will be individually judged on their merit and risk.
> 3. RM will triage/report critical and blocker bugs for 4.11 [4] and 
> encourage people to get them fixed.
> 4. RM will create RCs and start voting once blocker bugs are cleared 
> and baseline smoke test results are on par with previous 
> 4.9.3.0/4.10.0.0 smoke test results.
> 5. RM will allocate at least a week for branch stabilization and testing.
> At the earliest, on 15th January, RM will put 4.11.0.0-rc1 for voting 
> from the 4.11 branch, and master will be open to accepting new features.
> 6. RM will repeat 3-5 as required. Voting/testing of -rc2, -rc3 and so 
> on will be created as required.
> 7. Once vote passes - RM will continue with the release procedures [1].
> 
> In conjunction with that, I also propose and put forward the date of 
> 4.12 cut-off as 4 months [3] after GA release of 4.11 (so everyone 
> knows when the next one is coming hopefully giving peace of mind to 
> those who have features which would not make the proposed 4.11 cut off).
> 
> I’d like the community (including myself and colleagues) to:
> - Up to 8th January, community members try to review, test and merge 
> as many fixes as possible, while super-diligent to not de-stabilize 
> the master branch.
> - Engage with gatekeepers to get your PRs reviewed, tested and merged 
> (currently myself, Daan and Paul, others are welcome to engage as 
> well). Do not merge the PRs
> - A pull request may be reverted where the author(s) are not 
> responding and authors may be asked to re-submit their changes after 
> taking suitable remedies.
> - Find automated method to show (at a glance) statuses of PRs with 
> respect
> to:
>  · Number of LGTMs
>  · Smoke tests
>  · Functional tests
>  · Travis tests passing
>  · Mergeability
> - Perform a weekly run of a component-test matrix against the master 
> branch before Jan 8th cut off (based on current hypervisors including 
> basic (KVM) and advanced networking).
> - Continue to fix broken tests.
> 
> Thoughts, feedback, comments?
> 
> [1] 
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Release+Procedu
> re [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/LTS
> [3] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Releases
> [4] The current list of blocker and critical bugs currently stands as 
> per the following list:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20CLOUDSTACK%
> 20AND%20issuetype%20%3D%20Bug%20AND%20status%20in%20(Open%2C%20%22In%2
> 0Progress%22%2C%20Reopened)%20AND%20priority%20in%20(Blocker%2C%20Crit
> ical)%20AND%20affectedVersion%20in%20(4.10.0.0%2C%204.10.1.0%2C%204.11
> .0.0%2C%20Future)%20ORDER%20BY%20priority%20DESC%2C%20updated%20DESC
> 
> Regards,
> Rohit Yadav

RE: CloudStack LTS EOL date?

[Giles Sirett]

I agree Ivan
http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html makes no mention of LTS and 
provides no guidance on benefits of different versions

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-Original Message-
From: Ivan Kudryavtsev [mailto:kudryavtsev...@bw-sw.com] 
Sent: 23 November 2017 01:45
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: CloudStack LTS EOL date?

Hi, all. Previous reply to wrong thread. Copy here.
According to Paul, everything looks ok, but I still feel the website content is 
lacking of the information. My belief that index should clearly
state:

Current LTS 4.9 | updated 2017.11.12 (4.9.3) | EOL=2018.X.Y Previous LTS 4.X | 
updated 2017.04.01 (4.X.12) | EOL=2017.X.Y

Current 4.10 | updated 2017.11.20 (4.10.1) | EOL=2018.05.Y

The same is for download page. The reason is that some people don't need new, 
they need very proven. Other need supported and third group needs features.

E.g. Right now we updated our proxmox nodes to latest stable and found windows 
8 is no longer works as expected. Previous stable - ok. We rolled back. I mean 
that it could be a good way for a lot of users to see and realize what options 
they have. Even now, we still have 4.3 in production and happy.

Right now, new person just downloads 4.10 and gets a lot of regressions and 
unstable code. You might have seen last day e-mail threads. Even templates 
created from snapshots are broken in 4.10 and it is critical/blocker bug.
The user can meet the situation, that after a months when ssvm is reloaded all 
users lost tons of templates.

22 нояб. 2017 г. 11:49 ПП пользователь "Will Stevens" 
написал:

Paul, I thought a 'big mouth' was a prerequisite for the RM position.
Isn't that the only reason I was the 4.9 RM?  :P

*Will Stevens*
CTO



On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 11:39 AM, Paul Angus 
wrote:

> HI All,
>
> The current LTS cycle is based on having an LTS release twice a year 
> (at the time of design, ACS releases were coming out monthly).
>
> So, twice a year (nominally, January and July) we take the then 
> current version of CloudStack, and declare that an LTS version, for 
> which would we would then backport fixes for a period of up to 2 
> years.  Thereby giving end users a version of CloudStack which would 
> receive bug fixes for an extended period.
>
> This year however, the current version in January was the same as the 
> current version in July, therefore 4.9 became the 'July' LTS as well 
> as January LTS and therefore 4.9 will be supported until summer 2019 
> (hence the 4.9.3 release)
>
> I and a number of my colleagues remain committed to continue to 
> support 'LTS' releases in this fashion (there just wasn't anything 
> really to 'announce' in July), which may be why people think that 
> nothing is happening.
>
> With 2 LTS releases a year (6 months apart), 'next LTS +6 months' 
> would only be 12 months from release.  Which I think is really too 
> short a
period
> for the majority of enterprises.  Although we haven't written it this 
> way, the current scheme gives a EOL of 'next LTS + 18 months'.
>
> So, I'm in favour of leaving things as they are.   The wiki page looks
> like it needs updating to be clearer (I'm happy to do that)
>
>
> But I DO think that we should start a new thread asking for a 4.11 RM
> volunteer to get things going.   (I'm guessing y'all don't what my big
> mouth in that position).
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Paul Angus
>
>
> paul.an...@shapeblue.com
> www.shapeblue.com
> 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London  WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue
>
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Ivan Kudryavtsev [mailto:kudryavtsev...@bw-sw.com]
> Sent: 21 November 2017 14:00
> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
> Subject: Re: CloudStack LTS EOL date?
>
> Hello, it sounds very reasonable. The more lifecycle information the
> better for adopters.
>
> 21 нояб. 2017 г. 8:56 ПП пользователь "Marc-Aurèle Brothier - Exoscale" <
> ma...@exoscale.ch> написал:
>
> > It makes more sense to me too.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 2017-11-21 at 12:04 +0100, Rene Moser wrote:
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > The current LTS release is 4.9 which is EOL in June 2018 according
> > > to https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/LTS
> > >
> > > AFAIK there are no works planed for a new LTS. The release pace has
> > > slown down (the high pace and leaving users behind fixes was the
> > > reason for the LTS).
> > >
> > > I am still pro LTS but in my opinion we should have defined the EOL
> > > in relation of the successor LTS release date: "The EOL of the
> > > current LTS is +6 months after the next LTS release."
> > >
> > > Small example:
> > >
> > > Current LTS 4.9
> > > Next LTS 4.1x release on 01.04. --> LTS 4.9 is 01.10.
> > >
> > > Does this make sense? Other suggestions?
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > René
> >
>

RE: Adoption Survey seems to be abandoned

[Giles Sirett]

Hi Ivan
I'll answer your question with an appeal for help.

I setup the adoption  survey. The survey itself  is provided pro-bono by  
formwize. There's an admin login which gives access to the results (which is 
held by a number of PMC members)

So, the survey certainly isn’t abandoned (although a couple of the answer sets 
are due an update)

However, the task of getting the results onto 
http://cloudstack.apache.org/users.html is:
a) a manual process
b) one that I don’t have the skills to do

Erik Weber took on this task, but I know Erik is not too involved with 
cloudstack these days so has struggled to keep up with this.
Any volunteers here who could take on the job of updating the results page (say 
every month or couple of months) ?



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-Original Message-
From: Ivan Kudryavtsev [mailto:kudryavtsev...@bw-sw.com] 
Sent: 30 October 2017 03:51
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Adoption Survey seems to be abandoned

Hi, DevTeam.

May be dev@ is wrong list, sorry in advance.

It seems that adopters list is abandoned. I mean that I filled it about 3+ 
month ago and don't see our org in list of adopters (might be it was just 
ignored, but worth to mention anyway). I don't know either it's intended or 
not, just wanted to note that.

Have a great day.

RE: [ANNOUNCE] Syed Mushtaq Ahmed has joined the PMC

[Giles Sirett]

Congrats Syed

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-Original Message-
From: Makrand [mailto:makrandsa...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 11 October 2017 07:01
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Syed Mushtaq Ahmed has joined the PMC

Congratulations!!

--
Makrand


On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 12:38 AM, Syed Ahmed  wrote:

> Thanks All!
>
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 7:44 AM, sachin patil 
> wrote:
>
> > Congrats Sir!!
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Nicolas Vazquez < 
> > nicolas.vazq...@shapeblue.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Congratulations Syed!
> > >
> > > 
> > > From: Wei ZHOU 
> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 7:18:47 AM
> > > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
> > > Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Syed Mushtaq Ahmed has joined the PMC
> > >
> > > Congrats Syed !
> > >
> > > 2017-10-09 13:26 GMT+02:00 Paul Angus :
> > >
> > > > Fellow CloudStackers,
> > > >
> > > > It gives me great pleasure to say that Syed has be invited to 
> > > > join
> the
> > > PMC
> > > > and has gracefully accepted.
> > > > Please joining me in congratulating Syed!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Kind regards,
> > > >
> > > > Paul Angus
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > paul.an...@shapeblue.com
> > > > www.shapeblue.com
> > > > 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London  WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > nicolas.vazq...@shapeblue.com
> > > www.shapeblue.com
> > > ,
> > > @shapeblue
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>

RE: [README][Quarterly Call] - CloudStack Development, Blockers and Community Efforts

[Giles Sirett]

Hi Ilya
Sorry, I should have highlighted that User Group meeting clash before

Under normal circumstances, I would say: its futile trying to coordinate 
calendars with such a broad audience - there will always be some people not 
available , just set a regular date, keep it rolling (build and they will come)

However, for the first call, there will be at least Wido, Mike, Paul, Daan, me 
and probably a lot more PMC members not available because of the user group 
meeting

To keep it simple, I'd therefore say, go with the following day (Friday 18th) 
or the next Thursday (24th )

I'm not even going to respond to Simons pub/phone suggestion.

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-Original Message-
From: ilya [mailto:ilya.mailing.li...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 19 July 2017 22:25
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: [README][Quarterly Call] - CloudStack Development, Blockers and 
Community Efforts

The date conflict is noted - please provide range of alternative dates.

Thanks,
ilya

On 7/19/17 12:35 PM, Tutkowski, Mike wrote:
> I thought about that, but sometimes you can barely hear the person 
> next to you there let alone on a phone. :-)
> 
>> On Jul 19, 2017, at 1:28 PM, Simon Weller  wrote:
>>
>> ...unless you take a conference phone to the pub 
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 
>> From: Tutkowski, Mike 
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 2:19 PM
>> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
>> Cc: us...@cloudstack.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: [README][Quarterly Call] - CloudStack Development, 
>> Blockers and Community Efforts
>>
>> Hi Ilya,
>>
>> I think this is a good idea and thanks for the proposed breakdown of the 
>> contents of the call.
>>
>> One thing to note about August 17 is that there is a CloudStack Meetup in 
>> London on that day. The call would be happening around 5 PM local time 
>> (during part of the meetup or during the after-meetup activities). As such, 
>> I believe the participants of that meetup probably won't be attending the 
>> call.
>>
>> Perhaps we should consider another day?
>>
>> Talk to you later,
>> Mike
>>
>>> On Jul 19, 2017, at 12:59 PM, ilya  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Devs and Users
>>>
>>> Hope this message finds you well,
>>>
>>> As mentioned earlier, we would like to start with quarterly calls to 
>>> discuss the direction of cloudstack project.
>>>
>>> I propose to split the 90 minute call into 3 topics:
>>>
>>>   1) Development efforts - 60 minutes
>>>   Upcoming Features you are working on developing (to avoid 
>>> collision andmaintain the roadmap).
>>> Depending on number of topics we need to discuss - time for 
>>> each topic will be set accordingly.
>>> If you would like to particiapate - please respond to this 
>>> thread and adhere to sample format below:
>>>
>>>   
>>>   
>>>   
>>>   
>>>   
>>>   
>>>   
>>>   
>>>   
>>>   
>>>   
>>>
>>>   2) Release Blockers - 20 minutes
>>> If you would like to participate - please respond to this 
>>> thread and adhere to sample format below:
>>>   
>>>   
>>>   
>>>   
>>>   
>>>
>>>   3) Community Efforts - 10+ minutes
>>>   
>>>   
>>>   
>>>   
>>>
>>> The proposed date and time  - Thursday August 17th 9AM PT.
>>>
>>> Minutes will be taken and posted on dev list. Due to number of 
>>> things we need to discuss - we have to keep the call very 
>>> structured, each topic - timed and very high level.
>>> If there are issues and or suggestions, we will note it down in few 
>>> sentences, identify interested parties and have them do a "post"
>>> discussion on the mailing list.
>>>
>>> Looking forward to your comments,
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> ilya
>>>

RE: [NOTICE] Meeting with Accelerite Leadership

[Giles Sirett]

Ilya, all
Good initiative- thanks to you & John for taking the lead on it and thanks 
to the  Accelrite folks for some of the offers that theyr'e making here


Only a couple questions from me: the concept of the proposed call sounds like a 
general effort/alignment thing - almost like a project scrum  - am I correct ? 
I think this is a really good idea (you may want to ping Wido because he was 
trying to arrange something similar a while ago)

If so, then how do 2-10 progress ? They are a wide ranging set of initiatives 
(and personally  I think most of them are really good initiatives)  - I think 
lumping them all together would be overwhelming . They’ve each got their merits 
and would each require different people to drive forward. 

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-Original Message-
From: ilya musayev [mailto:ilya.mailing.li...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 11 July 2017 03:20
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org; us...@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: [NOTICE] Meeting with Accelerite Leadership

Dear CloudStackers,

Last week, Johh Kinsella and myself were suppose to meet with Accelerite 
leadership team. Unfortunately John could not make it - so i was alone.

We discussed ways we can improve community collaboration and leverage 
Accelerite"s resources to align and drive larger community agenda including 
extendes roadmap.

Many topics have been mentioned, below is the summary of our discussion. I will 
list things in the order i see being important.


---
1) Proposal was made to have a quarterly call (or more often as needed) with 
all interested parties to discuss:
Upcoming Features you are working on developing (to avoid collision and 
maintain the roadmap)
Blockers that are impacting release and adoption
Other topics

The length of the call would be 90 minutes. Each party will get a fair 
amount of time. The agenda will be collated and presented prior to the call 
with a link to FS on Confluence and time allotted for each topic.

Minutes will be taken and posted on dev list. If there are issues and or 
suggestions, we will note it down in few sentences, identify interested parties 
and have them do a "post" discussion on the mailing list.

The proposed date and time  - Thursday August 17th 9AM PT



--
2) Accelerite is considering funding a position for a person who will be 
working within community - as community manager. Help organize and facilitate 
discussions, make sure Confluence and JIRA are up to date, help new users with 
answering basic questions or finding right individual to assist with solution. 
While funded by Accelerite - it must be clear that the person is working 
with/for Apache CloudStack project.


3) Marketing was mentioned, i suggested we do more press releases - and 
possibly make use of interns

4) OpenStack VS CloudStack (unbiased technology comparison), there is a common 
question - we need to come up something that can help justify Apache CloudStack 
to clients leadership

5) Cinder integration with Cloudstack was mentioned - but no solid plans yet.

6) Creating Appliances of CloudStack - that are ready to be consumed and user 
can spin nested VMs to try CloudStack effortlessly

7) CoudStack Template Repository (plugin)- there is a code written for it by 
Citrix and resides on ASF git - but for some reason it was dropped or never 
completed. If we can give user a rich marketplace of appliances to consume - we 
will certainly get a good edge. This can improve the adoption.

8) MeetUps - we need to re-kickstart this initiative within SF Bay Area and 
stream it to other locations/meetups.

9) Demo environment of CloudStack.  David mentioned Citrix donated gear is in 
one of ASF locations - but sitting idle. I proposed we make use of it and let 
new CloudStack explorers try it out - without the hassle of deploying it.

10) If we can get CloudStack into EPEL fedora and ubuntu upstream repositories 
- it will help with adoption as well.

Please let me know if you would be interested in item #1, which is quarterly 
meeting. The proposed time is 9am PST, August 17th.

I will help setting up the first few initial calls and be a moderator.

Looking forward to your comments

Regards
ilya

RE: JIRA - PLEASE READ

[Giles Sirett]

From reading back through the thread, I think pauls initial point was around 
the fact that currently (and I don’t know whether this is hardcoded in our 
guidelines,etc) there is an assumption that the workflow for an issue will be 
Jira issue>fix>PR>> - and that is followed erratically

The Jira issue usually contains the original problem statement, whether 
reported by somebody here or a regular user. It then allows people to trace 
that problem statement through the release note path to see when it was fixed

And when I say people here - I am not talking about the people on this list - I 
am talking about the people out there using ACS in the wild. 

Will - I fully get your statement "I personally have never searched jira for an 
issue."  And understand why you wouldn't have - but that is maybe the root of 
the point here. People outside of our core dev community do  - a lot (I can 
verify that from first hand experience)

If we want ACS adoption to grow, maintaining *some* form of reliable trackable 
issues list is essential IMO

Jira is currently  THE  data point that most of our users (who don’t have the 
luxury of participating in these lists or being able to understand code 
commits) currently will use to identify the symptoms theyre experiencing &  see 
what version of ACS fixed the problem  (again, from first hand experience)

The other factor is the fact that jira is very "visible" in searches (Just 
google "cloudstack unable" foo ) - it will be the first place that many people 
stumble into when tracking down their problems. Use it or not - that should be 
consistent IMO

I have ZERO affinity to Jira (I'll show my hand and say I've never liked it) 
and do not like the potential split brain of having no mapped relationship 
between issues and PR's. So, if github issues  do a better job  - then great - 
lets do it.





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-Original Message-
From: Paul Angus [mailto:paul.an...@shapeblue.com] 
Sent: 30 June 2017 16:34
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: RE: JIRA - PLEASE READ

Whether we use 'GitHub Issues' or 'Jira Issues' doesn't change the basic point, 
which is bug fixes and indeed features need to be tracked.

If someone wants to know what versions a feature is in, or what version a bug 
was fixed, or if anyone has experienced/reported/fix a bug that they are 
experiencing, then they need somewhere to go to find that.  When doing a 
release we need to be able to easily see what bugs are outstanding for that 
release and which are blocker/critical etc.

Burying information in PRs just leads to chaos.  And if someone has to write a 
tool to extract what has gone into a release, then it's obviously too 
complicated.



Kind regards,

Paul Angus

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-Original Message-
From: Will Stevens [mailto:williamstev...@gmail.com]
Sent: 30 June 2017 16:07
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: JIRA - PLEASE READ

Yes, we would be adopting github issues for that then. If you want to handle 
those in jira we could, but i personally dont see any value in a jira ticket 
for an actual PR.

On Jun 30, 2017 10:26 AM, "Ron Wheeler" 
wrote:

> Going back to my previous point.
> Whatever makes the preparation of Release Notes easier should drive 
> the policy.
>
> It sounds like Will is favouring a complete abandonment of the JIRA.
> Does this change the end-user's process for reporting bugs or 
> requesting new features?
>
> Ron
>
> On 30/06/2017 9:09 AM, Will Stevens wrote:
>
>> Back to jira. I personally have never searched jira for an issue. I 
>> search github prs for issues often though to see what code is 
>> actually pending for different issues. I dont think i am alone in 
>> that.
>>
>> My stance is that unless we have a solid reason for using jira which 
>> we can not solve with github at this point, we should reconsider our 
>> use of jira.
>>
>> Now that we have gitbox setup, i think we have the ability to use 
>> Issues as well as PRs. I think it is much wiser to keep the 
>> discussion around the code much closer to the code and not in a 3rd 
>> system.  By using jira we encourage people who are contributing to 
>> the discussion to never look at the code because it is not available 
>> in the same screen. I think it is much more useful to discuss changes 
>> with the context of the code at your finger tips.  Comment on 
>> specific lines of code, review the conformance to the style guide, 
>> etc...
>>
>> Also, I think the argument that jira somehow helps with release notes 
>> is being made by people who have never created the release notes.
>> When using jira, you are assuming that everyone has jira in their 
>> workflow and the status of a ticket is always right. This is almost 
>> never the case and 

RE: JIRA - PLEASE READ

[Giles Sirett]

All
This thread seems to have turned into 2 quite different discussions:

1. The use (or not) of Jira - which was the original discussion

2. Ways/means of encouraging (and paying for more structured contributors)

I know that it could be argued that these are related. Could I suggest opening 
up a thread on "release and project management and funding it"  and keeping 
this thread to the original discussion

(I will weigh in on both of these at some stage)

Kind regards
Giles

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-Original Message-
From: Alex Hitchins [mailto:a...@alexhitchins.com] 
Sent: 29 June 2017 18:49
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: JIRA - PLEASE READ

If it isn't being treated as a product it will be very impossible to market it 
as enterprise ready. 

I know we all know this.

Similar sized projects under the Apache banner must have the same issue, what 
is the best way to gather experience of these projects? See how they handle 
these growing pains.

A cloudstack foundation entity funded by companies earning from cloudstack 
seems a good way forward. 

Another tuppence, this is getting expensive. 



> On 29 Jun 2017, at 18:18, Ron Wheeler  wrote:
> 
> I understand that it is a volunteer organization.
> I do not know how many (if any) of the committers and PMC members are funded 
> by their organizations (allowed or ordered to work on Cloudstack during 
> company time) which is often the way that Apache projects get staffed.
> 
> Clearly it is hard to tell someone who is being funded by a company to fix a 
> problem or who is working on their own time, to do or not do something.
> 
> On the other hand, the PMC has to  build a community culture that is good for 
> the project.
> That means describing a vision, planning and enforcing a roadmap, and  
> maintaining a focused project "marketing" effort.
> 
> There is a lot of extremely talented individuals working on Cloudstack and it 
> appears to have a very strong and valuable code-base.
> 
> To me the key question is about the PMC and the core committers' ability to 
> make Cloudstack a "product" that can compete for market share and acceptance.
> 
> Is Cloudstack at a point in its development where it should be treated like a 
> product?
> - sufficient functionality to compete
> - sufficient user base to be a competitor in the market
> - production reliability and stability
> - business model for supporting companies to justify their continued 
> support
> 
> This may not require more effort but requires different policies and 
> different activities.
> 
> There has to be someone or a PMC  that can say "No".
> - This change can not be included in this release because it will delay the 
> release.
> - This change adds an unacceptable level of complexity
> - This bug fix will have to wait for the next release because it is too late 
> to test it and fix the docs.
> - This fix breaks the docs
> - The release can not be made until this doc is updated.
> 
> Does the core group want to make it a competitive product or is it sufficient 
> for the interested players to continue in its current form?
> 
> Ron
> 
> 
> 
>> On 29/06/2017 9:42 AM, Will Stevens wrote:
>> I personally don't know how Jira solves any of this, but assuming it 
>> does, fine...
>> 
>> The bigger problem which you have raised is that CloudStack has zero 
>> funding. So we can't hire a project manager, or a release manager or 
>> someone whose job it is to maintain documentation. I have been trying 
>> to find a way to, at the very least, fund a full time release manager 
>> who can focus 100% on the project. As the release manager for 4.9, I 
>> know it is a full time job. I did my best, but it is a ton of work 
>> and is hard to stay on top of.
>> 
>> Everyone contributing to CloudStack is donating their time. They 
>> can't make a living off supporting ACS, so every one is doing their 
>> best with the little time they can take away from their day job or their 
>> family life.
>> 
>> Yes, having clear guidelines and sticking to them helps, but without 
>> a solid CI infrastructure backing the project and improved testing 
>> and automation, we will always struggles with release schedules and such.
>> 
>> I have been involved in this project long enough to know that all the 
>> problems you point out exist, but they are also not easily solved.
>> Obviously we have to work with the initiatives we have and take small 
>> steps towards improvement, but we also have to be realistic with our 
>> expectations because we are counting on people's generosity to move them 
>> forward.
>> 
>> Simplifying moving parts and streamlining the process will lead to 
>> more contribution because there is less barriers to entry. This one 
>> reason why I struggle to see the value in Jira as it is used today. I 
>> personally don't understand what value it is giving us that 

RE: ***Cloudstack EUUG - CFP***

[Giles Sirett]

Hi Ivan - great, thanks - I think the gorpu would love to hear about your work

Contanct me offline and we'll work out logisitics

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-Original Message-
From: Ivan Kudryavtsev [mailto:kudryavtsev...@bw-sw.com] 
Sent: 22 June 2017 10:51
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: ***Cloudstack EUUG - CFP***

Hello, Giles.

If the community is interested in our development and integration experience on 
https://bwsw.github.io/cloudstack-ui/ we would like to join and have a 
technical talk. Let me know if the preconditions fit and we prepare agenda 
which can help to decide go/no go.

2017-06-22 16:42 GMT+07:00 Giles Sirett <giles.sir...@shapeblue.com>:

> All
> The next Cloudstack European User Group will be in 17 August in London 
> I'm just putting the agenda together at the moment. If anybodys got a 
> cloudstack-related talk they'd like to present then ping me.
>
> For those that don't fancy speaking, it would be great to see as many 
> of you there as possible
>
> https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cloudstack-european-user-
> group-tickets-35565783215?aff=es2
>
>
> Kind regards
> Giles
>
>
> giles.sir...@shapeblue.com
> www.shapeblue.com
> 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London  WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue
>
>
>
>


-- 
With best regards, Ivan Kudryavtsev
Bitworks Software, Ltd.
Cell: +7-923-414-1515
WWW: http://bitworks.software/ <http://bw-sw.com/>

***Cloudstack EUUG - CFP***

[Giles Sirett]

All
The next Cloudstack European User Group will be in 17 August in London
I'm just putting the agenda together at the moment. If anybodys got a 
cloudstack-related talk they'd like to present then ping me.

For those that don't fancy speaking, it would be great to see as many of you 
there as possible

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cloudstack-european-user-group-tickets-35565783215?aff=es2


Kind regards
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[Request for help] CCC Miami

[Giles Sirett]

Hi everybody

Will, Wido, Simon, myself and Paul have been working really hard to make sure 
that CCC Miami is a great success
However - we now need you help

http://us.cloudstackcollab.org/

We've got a great looking set of talks, many of them from people on these lists 
- so thanks for participating guys
Theres free cloudstack training for any newbies and also an all day hackathon - 
a chance to get together and work on some of the long term priorities for 
cloudstack

. We now need to drive attendance to the event and get the word outside of 
these lists


  1.  If YOU are not already registered, do so
  2.  Please tweet/post that you are going to the event
  3.  If you're speaking at the event - please tweet about it- tell the world 
about your session
  4.  Please speak to colleagues, partners & customers and encourage them to 
come along - I've even created a sample email below that you can send to people
  5.  Look through the schedule and pick a couple of talks that really interest 
you. Then tweet about those talks and mention the speaker by handle

This event has been wholly community organised. There is no marketing machine 
to kick in and help drive attendees, please can everybody here just spend a few 
minutes to help out with this


Kind regards
Giles

=sample email to send===
Dear

I are writing to let you the CloudStack Collaboration Conference 
[http://us.cloudstackcollab.org]will be held  in Miami, May 16-18, and to 
invite you to get involved.


The conference is aimed at developers, operators and users to discuss and 
evolve the Apache Cloudstack  project, its functionality and real world 
operability.

The conference has over 30 great expert talks on Cloudstack, free cloudstack 
training and a hackathon session for collaboration. It presents an opportunity 
to learn what's going on at the cutting-edge of the project and also to network 
with peers in organizations  similar to yours.

Hosted along side the ApacheCon event, participants have a wonderful 
opportunity to learn and collaborate on CloudStack, while also discovering new 
projects.

Miami is a wonderful travel destination with something for everyone. Consider 
extending your stay a day or two to enjoy the beach and sun.
*  The earlier you register, the more you save, so get your tickets early.
For registration information , see here http://us.cloudstackcollab.org/#attend 
[http://us.cloudstackcollab.org/#attend]

*
Sponsors
CloudStack Collab brings together the open source community, users and 
developers of Apache Cloudstack. Sponsoring the conference presents a great 
opportunity to
* showcase your thought leadership among a vibrant open source community
* recruit top technical talent
* create brand preference for your products, services and/or technologies
* connect with top influencers driving today's technology purchasing decisions

The Linux Foundation is managing the event logistics, so they will be handling 
the sponsorship details.

For more information see http://us.cloudstackcollab.org/#sponsors 
[http://us.cloudstackcollab.org/#sponsors]

Hope to see you all at Cloudstack Collaboration Conference Miami !




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FW: Google Summer of Code 2017 is coming

[Giles Sirett]

All
See below - Google Summer of code 2017 isn't far away.
Previously, we've had a number of project committers who have come to us 
through a GSOC project

Become a mentor isn't something to be taken lightly but I would encourage as 
many of our community as possible to consider it - it will hopefully help wth 
the next generation of people excited to work on cloudstack




Kind Regards
Giles


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-Original Message-
From: Ulrich Stärk [mailto:u...@apache.org] 
Sent: 03 February 2017 19:51
To: ment...@community.apache.org
Subject: Google Summer of Code 2017 is coming

Hello PMCs (incubator Mentors, please forward this email to your podlings),

Google Summer of Code [1] is a program sponsored by Google allowing students to 
spend their summer working on open source software. Students will receive 
stipends for developing open source software full-time for three months. 
Projects will provide mentoring and project ideas, and in return have the 
chance to get new code developed and - most importantly - to identify and bring 
in new committers.

The ASF will apply as a participating organization meaning individual projects 
don't have to apply separately.

If you want to participate with your project we ask you to do the following 
things as soon as possible but by no later than 2017-02-09:

1. understand what it means to be a mentor [2].

2. record your project ideas.

Just create issues in JIRA, label them with gsoc2017, and they will show up at 
[3]. Please be as specific as possible when describing your idea. Include the 
programming language, the tools and skills required, but try not to scare 
potential students away. They are supposed to learn what's required before the 
program starts.

Use labels, e.g. for the programming language (java, c, c++, erlang, python, 
brainfuck, ...) or technology area (cloud, xml, web, foo, bar, ...) and record 
them at [5].

Please use the COMDEV JIRA project for recording your ideas if your project 
doesn't use JIRA (e.g.
httpd, ooo). Contact d...@community.apache.org if you need assistance.

[4] contains some additional information (will be updated for 2017 shortly).

3. subscribe to ment...@community.apache.org; restricted to potential mentors, 
meant to be used as a private list - general discussions on the public 
d...@community.apache.org list as much as possible please). Use a recognized 
address when subscribing (@apache.org or one of your alias addresses on record).

Note that the ASF isn't accepted as a participating organization yet, 
nevertheless you *have to* start recording your ideas now or we will not get 
accepted.

Over the years we were able to complete hundreds of projects successfully. Some 
of our prior students are active contributors now! Let's make this year a 
success again!

Cheers,

Uli

P.S.: Except for the private parts (label spreadsheet mostly), this email is 
free to be shared publicly if you want to.

[1] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/
[2] http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html
[3] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2017ideas
[4] http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html
[5] http://s.apache.org/gsoclabels

RE: CCC Miami Update

[Giles Sirett]

Wido
AFAIK, this is TBC, depending on reaction to the CFP.
Like most conferences, I think we shouldn’t announce the format until we've got 
a schedule to publish. Whats unusual here is, because we're discussing it on 
lists,  all of us here get to see those workings happening

I'm with you, I'd rather see fewer, busy days, but lets wait to see what 
content we've got to work with first.

What I would encourage everybody here to do is to get a talk submitted through 
the CFP
If we are to get people from outside the community to come and hear about 
cloudstack, we need good content for the talks



Kind Regards
Giles


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-Original Message-
From: Wido den Hollander [mailto:w...@widodh.nl] 
Sent: 31 January 2017 18:34
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org; market...@cloudstack.apache.org; 
us...@cloudstack.apache.org; Will Stevens 
Subject: Re: CCC Miami Update


> Op 29 januari 2017 om 19:41 schreef Will Stevens :
> 
> 
> Hello Everyone,
> I am sure most of you are aware at this point that a CloudStack 
> Collaboration Conference (CCC) is being hosted in Miami on May 16-18 
> by ApacheCon.
> 

Will the CloudStack conf be a full 3 days or maybe 1 or 2 days of the three 
days of Apache Con?

The reason I'm asking is that I think we will not be able to fill up three 
complete days.

Might want to go for one day of Hackathon and then 1 full day of talks? Maybe 
have the 17th a full day of talks and on the 18th only the morning?

I'd personally rather see 2 packed days then having 3 slow days.

Wido

> I urge you to consider joining us at this event.  Here are some of the 
> important event details, but all the details can be found on our event
> website: *http://us.cloudstackcollab.org/ 
> *
> 
> *Deadline for talk submissions:* *February 11th, 2017* *Accepted talk 
> notifications:* *March 6th, 2017* *Schedule published on: **March 9th, 
> 2017*
> 
> The event is being run as a collection of independently themed 
> conferences.  Obviously, most of you will be specifically interested 
> in the CloudStack Collaboration Conference, but your registration also 
> gives you access to the other conference being run at the same time.  
> So far the other conferences include; 'Apache: Big Data', 'Apache: 
> IoT', 'Flex Project Summit', 'Apache Traffic Server / Apache Traffic Control' 
> and 'TomcatCon'.
> 
> The earlier you register, the more you save, so get your registration 
> in early.
> 
> *Early Registration:* *until March 12, 2017* *Standard Registration:* 
> *March 13, 2017 - April 16, 2017* *Late Registration:* *April 17, 2017 
> - Event Date* *Committer Registration:* Special pricing is available 
> for active Apache Committers. Please contact the event organizers 
>  for details.
> *Speaker Registration:* *One free registration is included with each 
> accepted talk.*
> 
> If you submit a talk  
> and your talk is accepted, you will get one free registration per talk 
> accepted.
> 
> We are still looking for event sponsors, so if you are interested in 
> sponsoring the event, please review the sponsorship details 
> .
> 
> If you have questions about anything, feel free to contact me directly 
> and I will make sure you are connected with the right people.
> 
> Looking forward to seeing you all in Miami.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Will

RE: CloudStack Collab in Miami

[Giles Sirett]

This is great to see - thanks for all your hard work on this Will

I hope as many people as possible can make it to Miami

Kind Regards
Giles


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-Original Message-
From: Will Stevens [mailto:sw...@apache.org] 
Sent: 24 January 2017 21:28
To: us...@cloudstack.apache.org; dev@cloudstack.apache.org; 
market...@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: CloudStack Collab in Miami

Hello Everyone,
It is that time of the year again.  We are into the thick of it planning the 
next CloudStack Collaboration Conference (CCC).

We are happy to announce that the first CloudStack Collab of 2017 will be 
taking place on May 16-18 in Miami.  CloudStack has partnered with ApacheCon to 
bring you a great event.

More information about the conference is available here:
http://us.cloudstackcollab.org/

Here are some of the important details:

- The *speaker submission deadline is Feb 11th*, so get your talks in early.  
Details here: http://us.cloudstackcollab.org/#get-involved

- Registration will be taken care of by ApacheCon.  Details here:
http://us.cloudstackcollab.org/#attend

- Travel information and details about the venue can be found here:
http://us.cloudstackcollab.org/#location

- Consider sponsoring the event to make it even better. More info here:
http://us.cloudstackcollab.org/#sponsors

If you have any questions, please respond to this email and I will make sure 
your questions are answered.

Looking forward to seeing you all in Miami...

Cheers,

Will

RE: Apachecon this week

[Giles Sirett]

Sorry, I meant Wednesday or Thursday evening - I expect most people will be 
travelling on Friday

Kind Regards
Giles


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From: Giles Sirett
Sent: 14 November 2016 09:11
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Cc: Will Stevens <williamstev...@gmail.com>; Gabriel Beims Bräscher 
<gabr...@autonomiccs.com.br>; Paul Angus <paul.an...@shapeblue.com>; Tutkowski, 
Mike <mike.tutkow...@netapp.com>
Subject: Apachecon this week

According to  the schedule, the folks in CC here are all speaking on Cloudstack 
at Apachecon this week. It looks like Friday is the cloudstack track in room 
Giralda VI/VII
(Jaydeep Marfatia is also speaking, but I cant find his address on the mailing 
lists - could one of the Accelerite folks on this list please pass this email 
to him)



If anybody else from this community is planning on attending, please shout here


I cant see any plans for evening parties, etc so I was going to suggest that 
our small group of cloudstack devotees get together for a drink, dinner & 
catchup on either Thursday or Friday evening, after the sessions have finished





Kind Regards
Giles

Apachecon this week

[Giles Sirett]

According to  the schedule, the folks in CC here are all speaking on Cloudstack 
at Apachecon this week. It looks like Friday is the cloudstack track in room 
Giralda VI/VII
(Jaydeep Marfatia is also speaking, but I cant find his address on the mailing 
lists - could one of the Accelerite folks on this list please pass this email 
to him)



If anybody else from this community is planning on attending, please shout here


I cant see any plans for evening parties, etc so I was going to suggest that 
our small group of cloudstack devotees get together for a drink, dinner & 
catchup on either Thursday or Friday evening, after the sessions have finished





Kind Regards
Giles


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Speakers announced for Cloudstack EU User Group

[Giles Sirett]

We're very excited to announce the Autumn 2016 meeting of the CloudStack 
European User group, this time kindly hosted by BT, the people behind BT Cloud 
Compute.
Would be great to see as many from the community there as possible. Folks who 
cant make it, would appreciate if you're able to tweet and share with your 
networks


https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cloudstack-european-user-group-tickets-27604537916


CloudStack European User Group
VENUE: BT Centre showcase, 81 Newgate St, London, EC1A 7AJ. Nearest tube: St. 
Paul's
As well as talks from guest speakers, there will be the chance to meet with 
other CloudStack users, lunch, and time to continue the discussions over a beer 
or two in the evening.
IMPORTANT NOTE: these user groups are regularly sold out and we've had a 
waiting list for places. Please ensure you are able to attend before booking 
tickets.
AGENDA & SPEAKERS

Fast, automated landscape provisioning based on CloudStack, Ingo Jochim & Andre 
Walter.
Ingo and Andre will talk about their experiences deploying CloudStack as a 
platform for fast and flexible SAP system provisioning. Focused on relevant 
examples, they will highlight lessons learnt, technologies used and integration 
with CloudStack.

Application Supply Chain Automation (AsA) by Govind Rangasamy.
Organizations today are struggling to transform their mission critical systems 
into hyper-scale and highly available services, while also accelerating new 
application rollouts. Enterprises and MSPs rely on Appranix's AsA to accelerate 
application delivery and eliminate waste by composing, automating and operating 
applications with data fabric and cloud services along the application supply 
chain. Govind will talk about how CloudStack customers can take advantage of 
this unique approach and technology in details.

Building an Infrastructure as a Service for Voice platform, Len Bellemore & 
Tulio de Souza.
As a major Mitel phone system integrator and reseller, we wanted to host 
Unified Communications platforms in a pay-as-you-go consumption model.  We 
chose Cloudstack, and transformed our IaaS cloud into an IaaS for Voice 
platform integrated into our Core Network.   With a custom UI, that calls the 
Cloudstack API, we have reduced deployment times, as well as the number of 
engineers involved in a phone system deployment. We'll talk about some of the 
challenges, wins, and how this very successful project has made us fall in love 
with Cloudstack again.

Creating a native Containers as a Service (CaaS) offering on CloudStack, Paul 
Angus.
Cloud native applications running in containerised environments look set to 
create a paradigm shift in the way compute resources are consumed. However, 
this presents challenges (both technical and business) to Cloud Service 
providers who have already invested heavily in Infrastructure as a Service 
offerings based on the virtual machine model. Paul will discuss these 
challenges, look at the services that end-users will demand in a containerised 
world and how major public cloud providers have overcome these challenges.  He 
will then preview an exciting new project that gives a simple method for 
operators to deploy Containers as a Service to their end-users, based on Apache 
CloudStack

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cloudstack-european-user-group-tickets-27604537916

Kind Regards
Giles


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RE: [draft for review] -4.9 -press release

[Giles Sirett]

Sally
All noted. I’m asking some folks for a quote – will come back to you

Kind Regards
Giles


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From: Sally Khudairi [mailto:s...@apache.org]
Sent: 17 August 2016 17:07
To: market...@cloudstack.apache.org; Giles Sirett <giles.sir...@shapeblue.com>; 
dev@cloudstack.apache.org; Sally Khudairi <s...@apache.org>
Subject: Re: [draft for review] -4.9 -press release

Hello again, everyone --I want to reiterate that it would be a very good idea 
for us (= the Project) to solicit at few testimonials from the Apache 
CloudStack user community.

One thing that we tout is that CloudStack "just works". It would be unusual for 
us to make a formal announcement regarding a major release and not have any 
testimonials.

As the ASF's VP Marketing & Publicity, I can attest that we have only had one 
such announcement, which was received by the media/analyst community with 
curiosity (to put it politely) ... "why won't anyone own up to using your 
product?" is not something I'd like us to have to deal with, particularly as 
that's not the case.

To that end, I will be happy to help work with you on this front, and strongly 
recommend that we consider holding off on issuing the press release until we 
have secured some user quotes.

Should we choose to do this, and if we can secure the quotes by Sunday evening, 
I can issue the announcement as early as 4AM ET on Monday 22 August. Yes, I'll 
be sleepy, but it's worth it 

Thoughts?

Warmly,
Sally

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From: Sally Khudairi <s...@apache.org<mailto:s...@apache.org>>
To: Giles Sirett 
<giles.sir...@shapeblue.com<mailto:giles.sir...@shapeblue.com>>; 
"market...@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:market...@cloudstack.apache.org>" 
<market...@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:market...@cloudstack.apache.org>>; 
"dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>" 
<dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>>
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [draft for review] -4.9 -press release

Thanks, Giles.

OK. Normally, we don't cross-collaborate on marketing/PR issues with public 
lists, but we can't unstrike the bell at this point.

I'll await your clearance.

-Sally

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From: Giles Sirett 
<giles.sir...@shapeblue.com<mailto:giles.sir...@shapeblue.com>>
To: "market...@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:market...@cloudstack.apache.org>" 
<market...@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:market...@cloudstack.apache.org>>; 
"dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>" 
<dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>>
Cc: Sally Khudairi <s...@apache.org<mailto:s...@apache.org>>
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 9:11 AM
Subject: RE: [draft for review] -4.9 -press release

Sally

I’m cross posting this to dev@ - we’ve not had much input on marketing@, so I’d 
like some other eyeballs on this if we’re going to turn it around today

I agree, we need to get this finalised ASAP

My view would be to roll with the PR immediately. I know Thurs/Fri aren’t great 
but we’ve already actually announced this so run the risk of the PR being 10 
days after the event


Don’t think we’ll have time to get testimonials – unless somebody wants to jump 
in here quickly

I’ve drafted a quote for Will  below.
I’ve also taken Madan’s feedback and changed the order of the feature list
Will – please  chime in if you want something different in the quote, what I’ve 
written is pretty bland
Is Will unable to confirm, you can attribute it to me as PMC member  as an 
alternative




Kind Regards
Giles

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www.shapeblue.com<http://www.shapeblue.com>
@shapeblue


From: Sally Khudairi [mailto:s...@apache.org]
Sent: 17 August 2016 13:50
To: Giles Sirett 
<giles.sir...@shapeblue.com<mailto:giles.sir...@shapeblue.com>>; 
market...@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:market...@cloudstack.apache.org>
Subject: Re: [draft for review] -4.9 -press release

Thanks so much, Giles. This is a great draft. Glad to see that the template is 
still useful :-)

Do let me know when the copy is locked in. I'll need the final draft by 6PM ET 
prior to the day we'll be issuing the announcement over the wire.

Seeing that we're at the end of the "ideal" release timeframe (Thursdays and 
Fridays aren't best for global media visibility), were you wanting to go 
announce on Monday or whenever you're ready?

Also, if we could please include at least a quote from the PMC Chair, that 
would be ideal.

Are the

RE: [draft for review] -4.9 -press release

[Giles Sirett]

Sally

I’m cross posting this to dev@ - we’ve not had much input on marketing@, so I’d 
like some other eyeballs on this if we’re going to turn it around today

I agree, we need to get this finalised ASAP

My view would be to roll with the PR immediately. I know Thurs/Fri aren’t great 
but we’ve already actually announced this so run the risk of the PR being 10 
days after the event


Don’t think we’ll have time to get testimonials – unless somebody wants to jump 
in here quickly

I’ve drafted a quote for Will  below.
I’ve also taken Madan’s feedback and changed the order of the feature list
Will – please  chime in if you want something different in the quote, what I’ve 
written is pretty bland
Is Will unable to confirm, you can attribute it to me as PMC member  as an 
alternative




Kind Regards
Giles


giles.sir...@shapeblue.com 
www.shapeblue.com
53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London  WC2N 4HSUK
@shapeblue
  
 

From: Sally Khudairi [mailto:s...@apache.org]
Sent: 17 August 2016 13:50
To: Giles Sirett <giles.sir...@shapeblue.com>; market...@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: [draft for review] -4.9 -press release

Thanks so much, Giles. This is a great draft. Glad to see that the template is 
still useful :-)

Do let me know when the copy is locked in. I'll need the final draft by 6PM ET 
prior to the day we'll be issuing the announcement over the wire.

Seeing that we're at the end of the "ideal" release timeframe (Thursdays and 
Fridays aren't best for global media visibility), were you wanting to go 
announce on Monday or whenever you're ready?

Also, if we could please include at least a quote from the PMC Chair, that 
would be ideal.

Are there any user testimonials you'd like to include? If so, those will need 
to be secured.

Thanking you in advance,
Sally

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From: Giles Sirett 
<giles.sir...@shapeblue.com<mailto:giles.sir...@shapeblue.com>>
To: "market...@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:market...@cloudstack.apache.org>" 
<market...@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:market...@cloudstack.apache.org>>
Cc: Sally Khudairi <s...@apache.org<mailto:s...@apache.org>>
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 6:15 AM
Subject: [draft for review] -4.9 -press release

All
I’ve drafted the following for the 4.9 press release.
Please chime in with comments/changes/etc (bearing in mind, that we really need 
to get a release out ASAP as its been already 5 days since the [announce] was 
sent)

Despite the scale of this release , there are not many 
super-exciting/headline-grabbing new features so I’ve cherry picked these for 
the Press release:

- Enhancements to Cloudstack networking model including deeper integration with 
Nuage VSP SDN
-Out of band power management of hosts through IPMI,iLO,DRAC
-User defined security roles
-Over 180 minor enhancements and issues fixed

Happy if somebody else can help find some other headline features from the 
release notes
(BTW – the 180 came from the complete list of issues fixed)


##starts##

[APACHE CLOUDSTACK LOGO]

Announcing Apache™ CloudStack™ v4.9

Mature, easy-to-deploy Open Source Cloud computing software continues to meet 
the demands of the worlds largest cloud providers.

[DATELINE] —[date]—The Apache CloudStack project today announced the immediate
availability of Apache CloudStack v4.9, the latest version of the turnkey Open 
Source cloud
computing software platform used for creating private-, public-, and hybrid 
cloud environments.

Apache CloudStack clouds enable billions of dollars' worth of business 
transactions annually
across their clouds, and its maturity, stability and ease of deployment has led 
it to has become the Open Source
platform for many service providers to set up on-demand, elastic public cloud 
computing services,
as well as enterprises and others to set up a private or hybrid cloud for use 
by their own
employees.

CloudStack includes an intuitive user interface and rich APIs for managing the 
compute, networking, software, and storage infrastructure resources. It 
supports a broad range of integration points for both traditional and 
cloud-native workloads.

CloudStack v4.9 reflects dozens of new features and improvements, including:

-Out of band power management of hosts through IPMI,iLO,DRAC
- Enhancements to Cloudstack networking model including deeper integration with 
Nuage VSP SDN
-User defined security roles
-Over 180 minor enhancements and issues fixed

A complete overview of all new enhancements can be found in the project release 
notes at 
http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/cloudstack-release-notes/en/4.9.0/

CloudStack has been used by thousands of organizations worldwide and is in 
use/production
at Alcatel-Lucent, Autodesk, BT Cloud, China Telecom, DataPipe, Exoscale, 
Globo.com, GreenQloud,
Hokkaido University, IDC Frontier, Ikoula, Interoute, KDDI, 

RE: [ANNOUNCE] Will Stevens as new Apache CloudStack VP

[Giles Sirett]

Sebastien - thank you for your drive, dedication and hard work over the last 
year

Will - many congratulations - keep up the good work !

Kind Regards
Giles

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-Original Message-
From: Sebastien Goasguen [mailto:run...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 19 May 2016 07:57
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org; market...@cloudstack.apache.org; 
us...@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Will Stevens as new Apache CloudStack VP

Morning Everyone,

Yesterday at the ASF board meeting, the board passed the resolution making Will 
Stevens the new Vice President of the Apache CloudStack project.

Join me in congratulating Will on this appointment, wish him luck and bring 
your unwavering support !

You may have noticed that Will took on RM duties for the new releases going 
forward and has also taken a very active role to finish bringing us to github 
based  workflow and CI. Will has some updates on that front that I am sure you 
will all like.

-Sebastien
Former VP CloudStack

RE: Migrating CloudStack content from download.cloud.com

[Giles Sirett]

Erik
I agree on the existing users - not the end of the world. We could even release 
a tiny patch to update the DB records

The piece that we need to be really careful with is the "I've just downloaded 
cloudstack  thing for the first time" scenario 

But - there seems to be plenty of good ideas flowing on that


Kind Regards
Giles


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@shapeblue



-Original Message-
From: Erik Weber [mailto:terbol...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 19 May 2016 09:32
To: dev <dev@cloudstack.apache.org>
Subject: Re: Migrating CloudStack content from download.cloud.com

As a user (with old ACS installations) I'd say that this isn't all that 
troublesome, this is easily fixed by updating the appropriate db records.

We should ensure that we have some good posts discovered by Google and other 
search engines, so that when somebody running old installations hit this issue 
they find the workaround.
There's a lot of time to reach out to users and inform of the fix necessary.

--
Erik


On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Giles Sirett <giles.sir...@shapeblue.com>
wrote:

> This is a MAJOR problem and needs to be figured out before the current
> download site is removed - @Raja - have Citrix committed to it being there
> another year ?
>
> It is my understanding that Cloudstack relies on this download at initial
> build/startup and then periodically if people do things like build a new
> zone
>
> So, users environments aren't going to stop if its pulled, but nobody
> would be a able to build/install cloudstack and it may cause issues as and
> when users make config changes
>
> The problem is, for new builds, its hard coded : you start the  Sec
> Storage VM, CloudStack will try to download the built in template from
> download.cloud.com
>
> My understanding is that its simple db  change to make once an environment
> is running (exisiting users) but *may* require a code patch to fix the
> initial install
>
> #notideal
>
> Really, this should be maintained by ASF/ the project as its key to the
> software working, however my understanding is it involves binaries which
> ASF is never keen on (and may be some 3rd party binaries) - so that just
> wont happen
>
>
>
> Apt-get is controlled by Wido et al (for which we all owe him a massive
> thanks)  - but you are right, it is a 3rd party dependency and arguably a
> SPOF.  But, if ASF wont host binaries, we're always going to have this
> issue.
>
> So, we could patch the code to point somewhere else - but where ? - by
> definition its got to be something maintained by a 3rd party
>
>
> We had this debate some time ago when talking about the repositories. We
> (ShapeBlue) maintain a repo for our customers, which wev'e always opened up
> as public. However, there were concerns about having a company domain name
> (which I understand) - so apt-get became our preferred repo.
>
>
> Thoughts on how to fix this:
>
> 1. if ASF would allow us to create the host entry download.cloudstack.org.
> Its under their domain, but with the site being with a 3rd party it could
> be allowed
>
> 2. maybe Citrix could commit to pointing the current DNS entry to a new
> location (would be simplest but may be legally complex and relies on
> ongoing goodwill)
>
> 3. make a mod to allow users to choose the download location on install.
> We can then maintain apt-get. To remove the SPOF, we could then get the
> templates copied to a number of 3rd party locations and allow people to
> choose which one they use
>
>
>
>
> Kind Regards
> Giles
>
>
> giles.sir...@shapeblue.com
> www.shapeblue.com
> 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London  WC2N 4HSUK
> @shapeblue
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: williamstev...@gmail.com [mailto:williamstev...@gmail.com] On
> Behalf Of Will Stevens
> Sent: 16 May 2016 18:59
> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
> Cc: Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl>
> Subject: Re: Migrating CloudStack content from download.cloud.com
>
> @Ian, yes, but I think there is more to it than that.  We can change it
> going forward and we can move everything from there over to a new domain.
> I believe the problem is with all of the existing ACS or CCP installs out
> there currently pointing at the download.cloud.com URL, so when it goes
> down, those installs have to be updated.
>
> Maybe I don't understand exactly, but that is the impression I am getting
> from this thread.  Can this be confirmed?
>
> *Will STEVENS*
> Lead Developer
>
> *CloudOps* *| *Cloud Solutions Experts
> 420 rue Guy *|* Montreal *|* Quebec *|* H3J 1S6 w cloudops.com *|* tw
> @CloudOps_
>
> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 1:38 P

RE: Migrating CloudStack content from download.cloud.com

[Giles Sirett]

This is a MAJOR problem and needs to be figured out before the current download 
site is removed - @Raja - have Citrix committed to it being there another year ?

It is my understanding that Cloudstack relies on this download at initial 
build/startup and then periodically if people do things like build a new zone

So, users environments aren't going to stop if its pulled, but nobody would be 
a able to build/install cloudstack and it may cause issues as and when users 
make config changes

The problem is, for new builds, its hard coded : you start the  Sec Storage VM, 
CloudStack will try to download the built in template from download.cloud.com

My understanding is that its simple db  change to make once an environment is 
running (exisiting users) but *may* require a code patch to fix the initial 
install

#notideal

Really, this should be maintained by ASF/ the project as its key to the 
software working, however my understanding is it involves binaries which ASF is 
never keen on (and may be some 3rd party binaries) - so that just wont happen



Apt-get is controlled by Wido et al (for which we all owe him a massive thanks) 
 - but you are right, it is a 3rd party dependency and arguably a SPOF.  But, 
if ASF wont host binaries, we're always going to have this issue.

So, we could patch the code to point somewhere else - but where ? - by 
definition its got to be something maintained by a 3rd party


We had this debate some time ago when talking about the repositories. We 
(ShapeBlue) maintain a repo for our customers, which wev'e always opened up as 
public. However, there were concerns about having a company domain name (which 
I understand) - so apt-get became our preferred repo.


Thoughts on how to fix this:

1. if ASF would allow us to create the host entry download.cloudstack.org. Its 
under their domain, but with the site being with a 3rd party it could be allowed

2. maybe Citrix could commit to pointing the current DNS entry to a new 
location (would be simplest but may be legally complex and relies on ongoing 
goodwill)

3. make a mod to allow users to choose the download location on install. We can 
then maintain apt-get. To remove the SPOF, we could then get the templates 
copied to a number of 3rd party locations and allow people to choose which one 
they use




Kind Regards
Giles


giles.sir...@shapeblue.com 
www.shapeblue.com
53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London  WC2N 4HSUK
@shapeblue



-Original Message-
From: williamstev...@gmail.com [mailto:williamstev...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of 
Will Stevens
Sent: 16 May 2016 18:59
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Cc: Wido den Hollander 
Subject: Re: Migrating CloudStack content from download.cloud.com

@Ian, yes, but I think there is more to it than that.  We can change it going 
forward and we can move everything from there over to a new domain.
I believe the problem is with all of the existing ACS or CCP installs out there 
currently pointing at the download.cloud.com URL, so when it goes down, those 
installs have to be updated.

Maybe I don't understand exactly, but that is the impression I am getting from 
this thread.  Can this be confirmed?

*Will STEVENS*
Lead Developer

*CloudOps* *| *Cloud Solutions Experts
420 rue Guy *|* Montreal *|* Quebec *|* H3J 1S6 w cloudops.com *|* tw @CloudOps_

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Ian Rae  wrote:

> Hey guys, who controls apt-get.eu and given the (rather concerning) 
> level of dependency on the operation of the download.cloud.com - would 
> it not make sense to use a domain that is under the control of party 
> whose alignment with CloudStack will not shift. I hesitate to 
> implicate the red tape of Apache Foundation, but perhaps the fabled 
> CloudStack alliance organization would be a good way to handle this 
> long term.
>
> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Raja Pullela 
>  wrote:
> > Paul,
> >
> > trust me, it won’t be go away overnight.  We are talking to Citrix 
> > and
> requested them to keep it active for another year.
> >
> > Once we have the content copied over (I will work with Wido and 
> > verify
> this) to cloudstack.apt-get.eu and update the documentation (user 
> guides update and create a wiki to show how an existing installation 
> can fixed to point to new URLs) we don’t have a dependency on 
> “download.cloud.com” –
> right?  sorry, if I am missing something here?   Please let me know,
> >
> > best,
> > Raja
> > Senior Manager, Product Development
> > Accelerite,
> > 2055, Laurelwood Road,  Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA
> > Phone: 1-408-216-7010,  www.accelerite.com, @accelerite
> >
> >
> > On 5/16/16, 9:38 PM, "Paul Angus"  wrote:
> >>Thanks Raja,
> >>
> >>May I humbly suggest that someone at Accelerite speaks to Citrix 
> >>about
> how long the content will remain on download.cloud.com?
> >>Simply losing the content on download.cloud.com overnight will make
> everyone look bad

RE: [ANNOUNCE] Rafael Weingartner joining the PMC

[Giles Sirett]

Congrats Rafael


Kind Regards
Giles


Regards,

Giles Sirett

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-Original Message-
From: Daan Hoogland [mailto:daan.hoogl...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 28 April 2016 12:01
To: dev <dev@cloudstack.apache.org>
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Rafael Weingartner joining the PMC

Guess I should have facilitated everybody's mail filters

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Daan Hoogland <daan.hoogl...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> People,
>
> The PMC has ask Rafael to join them to oversee the project and he has 
> gracefully accepted. Please join me in congratulating Rafael and wish 
> him wisdom in his new task.
>
> ​on behalve of the PMC,​
> --
> Daan
>



--
Daan

RE: [ANNOUNCE] Open source distributed virtual machine scheduling platform

[Giles Sirett]

Rafael
This is very exciting to see, congrats in getting your project out of the gate



Kind Regards
Giles


Regards,

Giles Sirett

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www.shapeblue.com
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@shapeblue

-Original Message-
From: Rafael Weingärtner [mailto:rafaelweingart...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 27 April 2016 02:59
To: us...@cloudstack.apache.org; dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Open source distributed virtual machine scheduling 
platform

Thank you guys for the cheers. That is a very warm welcome for our little 
project ;) You bet we will keep the hard work. There is much (really much) more 
to work on, with this project we will have at least 2 masters’ thesis and 3 
Ph.D. thesis; that is something to keep us busy for the next 5+ years only in 
research and development (RD).

We hope you guys test the Autonomiccs platform and may even use it in your 
production environments.
If any of you want to chat in person, I will be at the ApacheCon NA (Thanks for 
the ASF funding) that will be happening between May 09-11 in Vancouver and at 
the SERVICES conference that will be happening between June 27 and July 02 in 
San Francisco.


On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 10:28 PM, Ahmad Emneina <aemne...@gmail.com> wrote:

> This looks really cool and promising! Keep up the great work.
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Gabriel Beims Bräscher < 
> gabrasc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello CloudStack community members (@dev and @users),
> >
> > This email is meant to announce the publication of a project on 
> > Github
> that
> > provides a distributed virtual machine scheduling platform that can 
> > be easily integrated with Apache CloudStack (ACS). The project is 
> > available
> at
> > [1], you can find a detailed explanation of the idea of the project, 
> > its aspirations, basic concepts, installation and uninstallation 
> > processes
> and
> > other information at [2]. Also, if you want to know more about the 
> > Autonomiccs and its creators, you can access the link [3].
> >
> > The code that was opened at Github is part of a bigger system that 
> > has
> the
> > goal of managing a cloud computing environment autonomously. All of 
> > that
> is
> > being developed and used in my Ph. D. thesis and the masters’ thesis 
> > of some colleagues. The formalization of that component will be 
> > published at the 12th IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES 
> > 2016) at San Francisco USA.
> >
> > You can see the stats of our code at [4] and [5]. Right now we only 
> > have ~40% of code test coverage. However, we intend to increase that 
> > value to ~60% until next week and ~90% until the end of June.
> >
> > To give you a picture of what we are preparing for the future, we 
> > can highlight the following goals for this year (You can find others 
> > short
> term
> > goals at [6]):
> >
> >-
> >
> >Integrate our platform [1] with a multi-agent system (MAS) 
> > platform,
> in
> >order to facilitate the development of agents. Currently, we are using
> >Spring-integration to “emulate” and an agent life cycle; that can 
> > become a
> >problem when needing to add more agents and they start to 
> > communicate with
> >each other. Therefore, we will integrate the platform in [1] with 
> > JADE [7];
> >-
> >
> >Today the metrics about the use of resource are not properly 
> > gathered
> by
> >ACS; in order to develop more accurate predictions we need to store
> >resource usage metrics. Also, those metrics have to be gathered in a
> >distributed way without causing service degradation. For that and 
> > a
> few
> >other reasons (you can send us an email so we can provide you more
> >details), we are developing an autonomic monitoring platform that will
> >integrate with the system available in [1];
> >-
> >
> >We also foresee the need to develop a better way to visualize the
> cloud
> >environment, a way to detect hot spots (pods and hosts) with higher
> >resource usage trends (VMs trends). We see the need to change the
> rustic
> >view of the environment with tables for a better suitable one for
> humans
> >(this is a surprise that we intend to present at the CCCBR).
> >
> > We hope you like the software and that it meets your expectations. 
> > If it does not suffice all of your needs, let’s work together to 
> > improve it. If you have any doubts or suggestions please send us an 
> > email; we will reply it as fast as we can. Also, crit

RE: Introduction

[Giles Sirett]

Welcome Rashmi

Kind Regards
Giles


Regards,

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@shapeblue

-Original Message-
From: Tutkowski, Mike [mailto:mike.tutkow...@netapp.com] 
Sent: 08 April 2016 06:12
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: Introduction

Welcome aboard!

From: Rashmi Dixit <rashmi_di...@accelerite.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2016 10:58 PM
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Introduction

Hello!

I am Rashmi Dixit and have recently joined the CloudPlatform team in 
Accelerite. I have worked on a hybrid cloud management solution supporting 
hypervisors such as KVM, Xen, VMware, HyperV and public clouds such as EC2. My 
areas of interest are User Interface, networking.

I am really looking forward to contributing on CloudStack.

See you around!
Rashmi

Rashmi Dixit
Principal Product Engineer | CloudPlatform | www.accelerite.com




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RE: [POLL] Interest for EU based event/collab

[Giles Sirett]

Erik

I've responded to your survey (don’t know how useful my response will be, I've 
said "yes" to everything)


One idea: we have a quarterly meeting of the Cloudstack EU UG.
We got 50 along to the last one. It’s a different audience to the usual CCC 
attendees (more users than devs)

For the next one (early June), we're planning on having it in Berlin

Andre and the folks from BitGroup are taking the lead on it

It would seem perfectly logical to me to combine anything we (i.e. the 
community) do with one of these UG's - gain more critical mass more quickly and 
make it more attractive to potential sponsors

I'm not sure how far down the path Andre et al are with logistics and whether 
the idea of making this into a bigger thing would scare him, but it may be 
worth you two syncing on this

We only have these meetings quarterly, the one after June would clash with 
Brasil so likely not to happen



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-Original Message-
From: Erik Weber [mailto:terbol...@gmail.com]
Sent: 16 March 2016 13:20
To: dev <dev@cloudstack.apache.org>; us...@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: [POLL] Interest for EU based event/collab

[Cross posted to users@ and dev@]

As you may be aware, a conference has been announced in Brazil later this year.

I guess there are more than me having a hard time travelling that far and long, 
so I would like to check the interest for an EU based event.

Unless someone comes up with a big money jar it won't be as fancy as the 
previous ones.

If you could fill out this poll[1] and/or respond to this email, that would be 
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possible missing emails on dev

[Giles Sirett]

All
I’m pursuing a theory that *some* emails on dev may not be getting sent to all 
subscribers


On Friday 11 March Marco sent this email to dev@:

Subject: [CCCBR] CCC Sao Paulo

Text : Hello community,

I have a pleasure to announce the CCC São Paulo will be realized in

29-30 September in Ṣo Paulo РBrazil in an  great auditorium at USP.

This auditorium has capacity to 1000 attendants and we are planning

to use 3 rooms for parallel tracks….



Could I do a quick poll of who received that original email from the dev list ?


The email shows in Markmail, here
http://markmail.org/message/4q4fv7mduqk2fn6q


I know somebody has seen it, because I’ve since seen a reply from Erik , but 
I’m pretty sure that I never saw Marcos original email on dev@  (I say pretty 
sure I’ve got some complex filters and there *could* be a local issue for me)
Marco is subscribed to Dev

Markmail says it was sent on Mar 11, 2016 5:55:23 am
However, looking at the thread with Erik it says it was sent on Fri, Mar 11, 
2016 at 6:34 PM




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RE: disable github notifications ?

[Giles Sirett]

Ok

If people agree that the noise if a pain in the a** (which it is) - then I'd be 
+1

I guess, most active developers will be viewing GH daily anyway and my use-case 
is probably unusual (dev@ lurker)

As Paul just said, maybe send them somewhere else so we have an "apache record"



Kind Regards
Giles


-Original Message-
From: sebgoa [mailto:run...@gmail.com]
Sent: 28 January 2016 00:28
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: disable github notifications ?

I don't know exactly what to do,

but I believe Rene left the list because it was too noisy, ...that's not good.

On Jan 27, 2016, at 4:10 PM, Giles Sirett <giles.sir...@shapeblue.com> wrote:

> Is there any other way of doing it ? (i.e can we get a summary of the
> comments sent to the list)
>
> I filter out the GH notifications (because I too find them noisy) but
> then often miss discussions that happen as GH comments
>
> In theory, we have the rule "if it happens, it happens on dev@", I
> feel may of the conversations on GH really should be somehow shown on
> dev@
>
>
> Kind Regards
> Giles
>
>
>
>
> Giles Sirett
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>
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> license from Shape Blue Ltd. Shape Blue Brasil Consultoria Ltda is a company 
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> -Original Message-
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> Subject: disable github notifications ?
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Shall we disable github notifications to dev@ ?
>
> It has become quite noisy.
>
> On the other end you see all the comments fly by...
>
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RE: disable github notifications ?

[Giles Sirett]

Is there any other way of doing it ? (i.e can we get a summary of the comments 
sent to the list)

I filter out the GH notifications (because I too find them noisy) but then 
often miss discussions that happen as GH comments

In theory, we have the rule "if it happens, it happens on dev@", I feel may of 
the conversations on GH really should be somehow shown on dev@


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-Original Message-
From: sebgoa [mailto:run...@gmail.com]
Sent: 28 January 2016 00:00
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: disable github notifications ?

Hi folks,

Shall we disable github notifications to dev@ ?

It has become quite noisy.

On the other end you see all the comments fly by...

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RE: Quick note about $dayjob

[Giles Sirett]

Sebastien

Sorry to hear that you have to move on. Wishing you all the best for your 
future plans with skippbox  - a very exciting looking project

You have been a dedicated, thorough and truly inspirational VP for this project 
– I would like to personally thank you for that.

I hope very much that you’re able to stay engaged in the project in some form 
or another

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From: Madan Ganesh Velayudham [mailto:madangan...@actonmagic.com]
Sent: 27 January 2016 00:11
To: market...@cloudstack.apache.org; dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Cc: us...@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: Quick note about $dayjob

All the best Sebastien,

Thank you and Great job as VP role.  Cloudstack is getting stronger and 
stronger.

World is very small and believe there will be scope to work again.

Cheers,
Madan

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 8:00 PM Sebastien Goasguen 
<run...@gmail.com<mailto:run...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi folks,

As some of you might have guessed I am changing $dayjob.

This is an exciting time for me, but it also means that I will become less 
involved with CloudStack. ( I said *less* involved, did not say I was going to 
disappear). I have informed the PMC and offered to stop my VP role ahead of the 
March deadline. As you know we have a one-year rotation for the VP role. 
However if the PMC does not see a problem with it I will gladly continue until 
March.

I will keep this brief but I wanted to let you know so that you don’t wonder 
why my involvement in recent releases and votes has decreased.

It is an exciting time for CloudStack as well, with ever greater releases ( in 
large part to Remi, Wilder and a few others), a strong proposal to offer LTS 
and the commitment from Accelerite.

Change is good, challenges are opportunities says Sensei Wu from Ninjago :)

PS:
If you wonder, I am launching my own container startup called Skippbox. I will 
grant myself a shameless plug, and if you know anyone interested in containers 
and kubernetes I sure could use some help ( https://github.com/skippbox , 
http://www.skippbox.com/blog/), github stars and PRs :)

Cheers,

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RE: Test list

[Giles Sirett]

Alive and kicking


Kind Regards
Giles

From: Glenn Wagner [mailto:glenn.wag...@shapeblue.com]
Sent: 15 January 2016 14:02
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Test list

Hi,

Dev list is a bit quite today , just checking everyone is still alive

Thanks
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RE: Thoughts on Citrix announcement yesterday

[Giles Sirett]

Sebastien - thanks for your message

I also echo your thoughts: I agree this is not an issue for the project or ASF 
to comment on but hopefully, at long last this, *may* stop people referring to 
"Citrix CloudStack" !

I hope that the individual contributors who are affected by this news are able 
to continue being part of this - and I really hope that they can bring some new 
colleagues with them.

Like Ian, the people we work with here greatly value ACS and recognise its true 
value.

So, the outside world may see this as a major change, but here in the community 
I see business as usual, I see things being in really good shape, I see healthy 
collaboration and debate..and great software being created. Long may that 
continue

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-Original Message-
From: Ian Rae [mailto:i...@cloudops.com]
Sent: 13 January 2016 11:39
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Cc: priv...@cloudstack.apache.org; us...@cloudstack.apache.org; 
market...@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Citrix announcement yesterday

Sebastien, echoing your comments and sentiments. We understand Citrix has a 
market driven imperative to focus on their core products and services, and 
thank them for kickstarting and enabling this awesome Apache community that 
represents an end-user driven cloud orchestration tool of great value, that is 
relatively simple to install and operate allowing people to focus on consuming 
cloud resources instead of building and babysitting them. There is a 
sustainable market in solving for easy, cheap and reliable.

Consider that in many tales, the hero being discounted as dead is often a key 
advantage, and emerges from a plot twist to “win" the day. What that will be is 
up to the community, old and new, to determine. I am happy to share the 
excitement and optimism of the many end users CloudOps works with every day who 
value Apache CloudStack for “just working”.

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 8:36 AM, Nux! <n...@li.nux.ro> wrote:

> Hi Sebastien,
>
> Thanks for your thoughts! I for one am being optimistic about this change.
>
> I'm also not worried about containers, I think you've spent too much
> time among hammers and now everything looks like a nail. :-)
>
> There is a massive load of stuff that at the moment needs (data
> centre) virtualisation and Cloudstack is in a better shape than ever
> to take care of that.
>
> So long Citrix and thanks for all the fish!
> Hello Accelerite!
>
> My 2 pence,
> Lucian
>
> --
> Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology!
>
> Nux!
> www.nux.ro
>
> - Original Message -
> > From: "Sebastien Goasguen" <run...@gmail.com>
> > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org, us...@cloudstack.apache.org,
> market...@cloudstack.apache.org,
> > priv...@cloudstack.apache.org
> > Sent: Tuesday, 12 January, 2016 16:20:44
> > Subject: Thoughts on Citrix announcement yesterday
>
> > Hi everyone (cross-posting),
> >
> > Yesterday Citrix announced that it sold its CloudPlatform business
> > to
> Accelerite
> > from Persistent Systems [1]
> >
> > As you know CloudPlatform is Citrix’s commercial distribution of
> > Apache CloudStack. I wanted to share a few thoughts on what this
> > means for
> CloudStack.
> >
> > One of the core tenet of the Apache Softwar

[poll] cloudstack exam

[Giles Sirett]

Quick poll: has anybody here taken the ACCEL cloudstack certification exam ? 
what did you think ? Too hard, too easy ? – about right ?

Also, by way of reminder: if you use the code  ACCELpromocodeASF when 
registering for the exam, 1/3 of the fee goes to the ACS project

Kind Regards
Giles

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New PMC member: Erik Weber

[Giles Sirett]

All
The PMC is delighted to announce that we have asked Erik weber to join the PMC 
and he has accepted

Please join me in congratulating Erik

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[ANNOUNCE] CloudStack Certification !!!!

[Giles Sirett]

All

[cross posting- sorry]

*GET CERTIFICED ON APACHE CLOUDSTACK *

As some of you may of heard, LPI Japan have recently  launched the Apache 
CloudStack certification exam.

Personally, I think it's a massive milestone for ACS to have its own 
professional certification scheme. From experience, many people entering our 
industry tend to get drawn to technologies that they can achieve certification 
in - and cloudstack is now one of those.

The development of this exam was a collaborative effort between LPI Japan and 
the Japanese Cloudstack users group.

So, I would like to do a shameless plug and encourage people here to have a go 
at the certification.  To be frank, my guess is that the exam will only evolve 
and keep updated if enough people are interested in actually taking it

So, please have a go at the exam, encourage your friends & colleagues and 
spread the word.

*Raise funds for CloudStack community*
ShapeBlue have agreed to become a reseller of the exam. We have decided that we 
will do this on a non-profit basis and donate ALL money made back into the 
community.
So,if you are going to take the exam, please use the registration code on our 
website: for every exam registered, we will donate $50 (1/3 of the $150 cost of 
the exam) to be used for the next collaboration conference or to support other 
community activity.

Further details and how to register are here:
http://www.shapeblue.com/apache-cloudstack-certification-accel/





Kind Regards
Giles

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RE: new colleagues

[Giles Sirett]

Great to hear that you're staying in the family Daan

And good news that I get a running partner in Dublin (as Sebastien usually 
doesn't get out of bed for our runs !)



Regards

Giles

-Original Message-
From: Daan Hoogland [mailto:daan.hoogl...@gmail.com]
Sent: 01 October 2015 11:07
To: dev 
Subject: new colleagues

Hello fellow stackers,

This to let you know that I just entered the building of Leaseweb, in order to 
be working there for the next couple of years. You know them via Whei Zou, who 
will be my close colleague. I had a great time with Schuberg Philis as you 
might know and am confident the same will happen here. I will continue to use 
personal email addresses so I want to let you this way that my motivation has 
changed ever so slightly.

I didn't plan to go to Dublin yet, but as Makesh my new colleague threatened to 
mention me in his session [1], I will try to be there for damage control.

[1] http://sched.co/44T2

​hoping to contribute a lot more,​
--
Daan
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RE: CloudStack networking documentation

[Giles Sirett]

Paul is travelling this week - I'll ping somebody else to answer Rons questions

Regards

Giles

-Original Message-
From: Sebastien Goasguen [mailto:run...@gmail.com]
Sent: 30 September 2015 11:34
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org; Paul Angus 
Subject: Re: CloudStack networking documentation

Pinging Paul Angus, who can surely answer these questions.
We can then edit the docs.

> On Sep 29, 2015, at 7:03 AM, Ron Wheeler  
> wrote:
>
> http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/master/concepts.html#what-is-apac
> he-cloudstack
>
> In the opening paragraph of About Physical Networks" it says "The
> network corresponds to a NIC on the hypervisor host."
>
> In Basic Zone Network Traffic Types it says that there is only one
> physical network in the zone but later on in the middle of discussing the 
> various traffic types there is a note "We strongly recommend the use of 
> separate NICs for management traffic and guest traffic".
> There is no reason given for this statement.
> No suggestion about what tradeoff is being made if you go with a single NIC.
> Is it performance or security concerns that prompts this?
>
> It might be helpful to describe what is meant by a single physical network 
> with multiple NICs.
>
> The note itself appears to be out of place since it is in the middle of some 
> definitions rather that in a discussion block.
> It also looks like it applies to Advanced Networks but is missing in that 
> section.
>
> "CIDR of the pod" is used without any description of what this is and how it 
> gets setup.
> Might be helpful to add a sentence or two about this. It seems important.
>
> "guest virtual router" is another concept that seems important but has no 
> definition or discussion.
>
> Ron
>
> --
> Ron Wheeler
> President
> Artifact Software Inc
> email: rwhee...@artifact-software.com
> skype: ronaldmwheeler
> phone: 866-970-2435, ext 102
>

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Cloudstack collab Dublin 8-9 October

[Giles Sirett]

All

We've got the schedule published for CCCEU15
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudstack-collaboration-conference-europe/program/schedule

Thanks to everybody who is participating

Could folks on this list please help by promoting the schedule on twitter,etc



Kind Regards
Giles

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LAST CHANCE - speaker submissions for CCCEU15

[Giles Sirett]

All
We've had some great talks submitted for Dublin so should now be able to put 
together a really exciting agenda , but we still have room on the schedule for 
some more, so...

Please consider submitting  a talk: The CFP closes in 2 days

www.cloudstackcollab.orghttp://www.cloudstackcollab.org


We've got lots of great technical talks, but are a little light on user / 
use-case stories. So, if anybody wants to come and tell the conference about 
your organisations cloudstack usage - please submit

Kind Regards
Giles

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RE: Introducing Boris Schrijver

[Giles Sirett]

Welcome Boris


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 -Original Message-
 From: Wido den Hollander [mailto:w...@widodh.nl]
 Sent: 08 July 2015 16:08
 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
 Cc: bo...@pcextreme.nl
 Subject: Introducing Boris Schrijver

 Hi all,

 As you might know, we at PCextreme are using CloudStack for our public cloud
 offering and have been looking for a CloudStack dev for a long time.

 We found one; so let me introduce Boris Schrijver.

 Boris will be our fulltime CloudStack developer with no other purpose then
 making CloudStack better :)

 CloudStack is a Apache project, so it will be Boris contributing to 
 CloudStack and
 NOT PCextreme as a company. He might become a committer one day, who
 knows.

 Today is his first day, so it will take a bit before you'll see the first PR 
 coming in.

 Wido

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