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<h2 class="post-title">2013 in retrospect and a Happy New Year from the Libcloud team</h2>
<span class="post-date-author">By Tomaz Muraus on Dec 28, 2013</span>
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<p>Dear Libcloud users, developers and team members,</p>
<p>2013 is slowly coming to an end, and we would like to wish everyone a happy
and successful new year!</p>
<p>Now it’s also the time to look back at the things which have been accomplished,
important events which have happened and some statistics for 2013.</p>
<h3 id="important-events-and-milestones">Important Events and Milestones</h3>
<ul>
<li>Two new committers have joined our team - <a href="/blog/2013/08/04/new-committer-john-carr-joins-our-team.html">John Carr</a>, <a href="/blog/2013/11/25/new-committers-brian-curtin-joins-our-team.html">Brian Curtin</a></li>
<li>In June we held a Libcloud Design Day at the Rackspace San Francisco
office. See <a href="http://www.tomaz.me/2013/06/12/libcloud-design-day-recap-improving-libcloud-and-plans-for-the-future.html">Libcloud Design Day Recap</a> blog post for a recap.</li>
<li>We have finally migrated from SVN to Git.</li>
<li>We have started to work on new and improved documentation which is now
available on <a href="https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/">ReadTheDocs</a>.</li>
<li>In addition to the Apache Buildbot instance, our tests now also run on
<a href="https://travis-ci.org/apache/libcloud">Travis CI</a>.</li>
<li>Key pair management methods have been promoted to be part of the base
compute API. See <a href="http://www.tomaz.me/2013/12/11/libcloud-update-key-pair-management-methods-are-now-part-of-the-base-api.html">Libcloud update - Key pair management methods are now
part of the base API</a> blog post for more information.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="statistics">Statistics</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>197</strong> new JIRA issues have been opened (total of <strong>472</strong>). Out of those
197 issues, <strong>138</strong> are now marked as ‘resolved’.</li>
<li>Github mirror stars: <strong>331</strong> (+65 YTD)</li>
<li>Twitter followers: <strong>449</strong> (+149 YTD)</li>
<li>Google+ page +1’s: <strong>1591</strong></li>
<li>We had a total of <strong>5 releases</strong> (0.12.1, 0.12.3, 0.12.4, 0.13.0, 0.13.1,
0.13.2, 0.14.0-beta3)</li>
<li>Combination of SVN and Git repository has had a total of <strong>963 commits</strong>.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="sources">Sources</h3>
<p>Numbers listed above have been retrieved on <strong>26th of December, 2013</strong> from the
sources listed bellow:</p>
<ul>
<li>Libcloud website - <a href="http://libcloud.apache.org/">http://libcloud.apache.org/</a></li>
<li>Twitter account - <a href="https://twitter.com/libcloud">https://twitter.com/libcloud</a></li>
<li>Google+ page - <a href="https://plus.google.com/b/100590055818889164025/100590055818889164025">Apache Libcloud</a></li>
<li>Github mirror - <a href="https://github.com/apache/libcloud">https://github.com/apache/libcloud</a></li>
<li>JIRA - <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD">https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD</a></li>
<li>PyPi - <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/apache-libcloud/">https://pypi.python.org/pypi/apache-libcloud/</a></li>
<li>Ohloh - <a href="https://www.ohloh.net/p/libcloud/">https://www.ohloh.net/p/libcloud/</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Those numbers and numbers for the past years are also available in a semi
machine readable format in a <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1k_UBpA_HiQcZvO_TPi12yfN0VwCk42R8CXFFX0FYUAM">Google Spreadsheet</a>.</p>
<h3 id="old-retrospect-blog-posts">Old retrospect blog posts</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="/blog/2012/12/26/2012-in-retrospect-and-happy-new-year-from-libcloud-team.html">2012 in retrospect and a Happy New Year from the Libcloud team</a></li>
<li><a href="/blog/2011/12/30/2011-in-retrospect-and-happy-new-year-from-libcloud-team.html">2011 in retrospect and a Happy New Year from the Libcloud team</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Thanks again to everyone for their contributions and lets make 2014 even better
and more successful :)</p>
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