I wrote this on the plane on the way to the PTG and then planned to write one each day. It turns out the PTG was (for me) extremely busy and very exhausting so not only did I not get around to writing a posting each day, I also didn't …

Despite its name, the Technical Committee has become the part of the OpenStack contributor community that enshrines, defines, and -- in some rare cases -- enforces what it means to be "OpenStack". Meanwhile, the community has seen a great deal of growth and change.

Some of these changes have led to progress …

When evaluating APIs (HTTP and otherwise) I am predisposed to simplicity and comprehensibility in implementation and use. That means the interface should:

• have a limited number of resources
• have simple representations of those resources with minimal dimensions (variables)
  • thus a correspondingly limited number of operations that can be performed across …

One of the changes in progress to improve the scheduler or placement engine in Nova is something called generic resource pools. These are a way of representing an entity which can provide inventories of one or more class of resources (things like virtual cpus, disk, networks).

I was in the …