In the "Making OpenStack More Palatable to Part-Time Contributors" Forum session in Sydney, one barrier to contribution that came up was keeping up with everything happening in OpenStack. The dev mailing list is a firehose and IRC can be just as daunting, especially for contributors in non-Americas timezones. The current time of the weekly team meeting basically excludes a third of the world from participating. I don't propose we stop having them, but it would be good to try to be a little more inclusive. Following the lead of some of the other folks in our community, I propose we consolidate the mailing list discussions, IRC meetings, and general discussions in a weekly update, just to share what we've been up to and what's important to know.
I don't guarantee I'll get to this every week but I'll make an effort. Please feel free to provide feedback on what you think would be useful to see in a newsletter like this. If you want to help out, I created an etherpad - feel free to help fill in the sections or edit the template itself. https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/keystone-team-newsletter Without further ado, here's what's been going on this week from my perspective: # Keystone Team Update - Week of 27 November 2017 ## News Next week we'll use the meeting time to have a video conference to do a milestone retrospective for Queens-2: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-November/124997.html We abandoned some very old patches in gerrit. If we abandoned one that we shouldn't have, come talk to us: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-November/124910.html We used the last weekly keystone meeting to talk about open specs. In particular we talked about the Unified Limits spec and what the implications are for requiring a region ID in order to create a registered limit: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/keystone/2017/keystone.2017-11-28-18.00.log.txt In the weekly policy meeting we talked about using the next round of community goals to get projects using the new system scope, but decided that we'd like to have a couple of early adopters before proposing it community-wide and so we'll likely hold off on proposing it until the following cycle. We did decide that we could start a community-wide discussion on defining a set of default-roles by proposing a cross-project spec. http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/policy/2017/policy.2017-11-29-16.00.log.txt ## Open Specs Search query: https://goo.gl/pc8cCf We only have one spec proposed for Queens still under review: Limits API: https://review.openstack.org/455709 ## Recently Merged Changes Search query: https://goo.gl/hdD9Kw We merged 24 changes this week. Notably, we merged a few Queens specs and some policy roadmaps: Repropose application credentials to queens: https://review.openstack.org/512505 Specification for system roles: https://review.openstack.org/460344 Outline policy goals: https://review.openstack.org/460344 Add policy roadmap for security: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/462733/ ## Changes that need Attention Search query:https://goo.gl/YiLt6o There are 51 changes that are passing CI and have no negative reviews, so these authors are waiting for feedback from reviewers. Please give them a look. That doesn't mean you should ignore changes that are failing CI or have negative reviews, it's just that the changes highlighted here are more likely to be in the reviewers' court rather than a requiring a new revision from the author. Sometimes negative votes are misplaced or CI needs to be fixed project-wide so this doesn't necessarily mean that this list is the only one to mind. ## Milestone Outlook https://releases.openstack.org/queens/schedule.html Queens-2 is next week. That means the specification freeze is on December 8 and all Queens specifications must be merged by then or will be pushed to the next release. The only open spec affected by this is the Limits API spec. ## Shout-outs wangxiyuan has been doing a ton of awesome work squashing our bugs and taking on the Unified Limits feature. Thanks wangxiyuan! ## Help with this newsletter Help contribute to this newsletter by editing the etherpad: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/keystone-team-newsletter __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
