This is placement update 18-24, a weekly update of ongoing development related to the OpenStack placement service.

It's been quite a while since the last one, mostly because of travel, but also because coming to grips with the placement universe takes some time. Catching up will mean that this update …

Here's TC Report 24. The last one was 4 weeks ago, itself following a gap. In the intervening time new TC members (Graham Hayes, Mohammed Naser, and Zane Bitter) and a new Chair (Doug Hellman) have found their feet very well, we had a successful and moderately dramatic OpenStack Summit …

I've been working in the virtualisation and cloud space for a few years now, but for many of the experiments I want to do, having access to hardware that is local and visible to me makes thinking about the stuff I'm exploring easier. This is especially the case when wanting …

Trying to write a TC report after a gap of 3 weeks is hard enough, but when that gap involves some time off, the TC elections, and the run up to summit (next week in Vancouver) then it gets bewildering. Rather than trying to give anything like a full summary …