This is a brief check in to indicate that I (and this blog) am still alive.

There's a joke in my family that I'm responsible for inventing the internet. This is obviously not true, but my involvement with various pre-Web protocols, the emergence of the Web, and transitioning a town's …

There's a thread on the openstack-discuss mailing list, started in September and then continuing in October, about limiting planned scope for Nova in the Ussuri cycle so that stakeholders' expectations are properly managed. Although Nova gets a vast amount done per cycle there is always some stuff left undone and …

Let's call this placement update 19-∞, as this will be my last one. It's been my pleasure to provide this service for nearly three years. I hope it has been as useful to others as it has been for me. The goal all along was to provide some stigmergic structures …

Here's placement update 19-36. There won't be one next week, I will be away. Because of my forthcoming "less time available for OpenStack" I will also be stopping these updates at some point in the next month or so so I can focus the limited time I will have on …