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| title: Apache CloudStack Weekly News - 21 January 2013 |
| excerpt: "<p>As usual, a lot of activity on the -dev mailing list. Several VOTEs this |
| week around features donated by Citrix, and quite a few upcoming events. Speaking |
| of events, videos from the CloudStack Collaboration Conference are up on YouTube!</p>" |
| id: 1008f8dc-1887-449f-a80c-60fca9033a26 |
| date: '2013-01-22 03:40:36 -0500' |
| categories: cloudstack |
| tags: |
| - cloudstack |
| - vote |
| - news |
| - marvin |
| - weekly |
| - apache |
| permalink: cloudstack/entry/apache_cloudstack_weekly_news_21 |
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| <p>As usual, a lot of activity on the -dev mailing list. Several VOTEs this week around features donated by Citrix, and quite a few upcoming events. Speaking of events, videos from the CloudStack Collaboration Conference are up on YouTube!</p> |
| <h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-21January2013-MajorDiscussionsandIssues"></a>Major Discussions and Issues</h3> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Vote result: Donation of Marvin automated tests <a href="http://markmail.org/thread/vxwtwnhapmf7inw7" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">accepted</a>.</li> |
| <li>Several continuing votes this week about accepting code donations from Citrix that were developed outside Apache CloudStack. <a href="http://markmail.org/thread/ybbpv3n5d4y4frb5" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">Egress firewall rules feature</a>, <a href="http://markmail.org/thread/vcmu6yagtxr5lvyn" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">network services (PF, NAT, LB) in shared networks of advanced zone</a>, <a href="http://markmail.org/message/ajvlvvruhttgvfe2" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">Reset SSH Key</a>, <a href="http://markmail.org/message/5pgxkz3zd6n3pwtr" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">Documentation for various features</a>, <a href="http://markmail.org/message/p3npjr3nxy56tdpu" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">Support Security Group enabled in Advanced Networking Zone</a>, <a href="http://markmail.org/message/qw6iyweljzinsm63" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">Optional Public IP assignment for EIP with Basic Zone</a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/diycloudcomputing" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">CloudStack Collab 2012 videos</a> have been posted. Share and enjoy!</li> |
| <li><a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Minutes+15th+Jan+2013" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">QA Scrum minutes for 1/15</a> are posted on the wiki.</li> |
| <li><a href="http://sebgoa.blogspot.ch/2013/01/social-network-analysis-of-apache.html" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">Social Network Analysis of Apache CloudStack</a> - blog post by Sebastien Goasguen, he looks at activity and communication between members on the mailing list.</li> |
| <li><a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+Meeting+16+January+2013+Minutes" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">Minutes from Weekly IRC Meeting</a>. Meetings are every Wednesday at 17:00 UTC in #cloudstack-meeting on Freenode.</li> |
| </ul> |
| <h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-21January2013-UpcomingEvents"></a>Upcoming Events</h3> |
| <ul> |
| <li><b>PuppetCamp Sydney</b>: Joe Brockmeier is <a href="http://puppetcampsydney2013.eventbrite.com/" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">speaking about Apache CloudStack at PuppetCamp Sydney</a> on Thursday, 24 January 2013.</li> |
| <li><b>Linux.conf.au</b>: Joe Brockmeier is <a href="https://lca2013.linux.org.au/schedule/30073/view_talk?day=monday" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">speaking about Apache CloudStack during the Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Storage and High Availability miniconf</a> on Monday (28 January, 2013).</li> |
| <li><b>FOSDEM</b>: Sebastien Goasguen is <a href="https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/cloudstack/" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">speaking about Apache CloudStack features and tools</a> during the <a href="https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/cloud/" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">cloud DevRoom</a> at FOSDEM on Sunday (3 February, 2013).</li> |
| <li><b>Build a Cloud Day (BACD)</b>: Full day <a href="http://buildacloud.org/about-cloudstack/cloudstack-events/viewevent/140-build-a-cloud-day-ghent-2013.html" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">workshop</a> on CloudStack co-located with Puppet Camp in Ghent, Belgium (1 February, 2013).</li> |
| <li><b>UK/European User Group Meet-up</b> : Shapeblue is organizing a <a href="http://buildacloud.org/about-cloudstack/cloudstack-events/viewevent/141-ukeuropean-user-group-meet-up.html" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">meet-up</a>. (January 16th, 2013)</li> |
| <li><b>Build a Cloud Day (BACD)</b>: Full day <a href="http://buildacloud.org/about-cloudstack/cloudstack-events/viewevent/138-build-a-cloud-day-scale11x-.html" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">BACD</a> at SCALE on Friday (22 February 2013).</li> |
| <li><b>CloudStack Booth at SCALE</b>: Meet with CloudStack folks at SCALE (23-24 February 2013), also Joe Brockmeier is <a href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x/presentations/taking-open-cloud-11-cloudstack" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">speaking about CloudStack at SCALE</a>.</li> |
| </ul> |
| <h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-21January2013-Jira"></a>Jira</h3> |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20CLOUDSTACK%20AND%20affectedVersion%20%3D%20%224.1.0%22%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Open%20AND%20assignee%20in%20(EMPTY)" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">48 Open and Unassigned Issues affecting 4.1.0</a></li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20CLOUDSTACK%20AND%20affectedVersion%20%3D%20%224.1.0%22%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Open" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">90 Open Issues affecting 4.1.0</a></li> |
| <li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20CLOUDSTACK%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Open" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">474 Open Issues in total against Apache CloudStack</a></li> |
| </ul> |
| <h3><a name="ApacheCloudStackWeeklyNews-21January2013-NewCommittersandPPMCMembers"></a>New Committers and PPMC Members</h3> |
| <p>For this week's news only we're mentioning new committers and PPMC members for this month (Jan 2013);</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Sebastien Goasguen (committer)</li> |
| <li>Joe Brockmeier (PPMC)</li> |
| <li>Kelcey Damage (committer)</li> |
| </ul> |
