A talk at day one of PyconUK has stirred some thoughts about politics in the OpenStack community that I hope by writing down I can gain some clarity and maybe do something to improve the situation. Thus far the connections between the thoughts are rather weak.

That talk made the …

I'm at PyconUK 2015 and took a few notes from the first day. Here they are.

PyconUK lives up to its reputation for being very friendly and very inclusive. There's a great diversity of people and topics present.

The most informative talk was Larry Hastings giving a very cogent explanation …

Gabbi is a testing tool that I created at the beginning of this year. It uses a YAML-based representation of an HTTP request to test web APIs in a declarative fashion that is programming language agnostic. It works very well and has had some success in the Ceilometer and Gnocchi …

Back when people used to have offices it was common to have a question and get up and go for a wander looking for someone to ask. On the way the questioner would marshal their thoughts. By the time they reached the target the answer would have revealed itself and …