All | 2018-08-10
Project Mulligan’s ArchitectureThis is the second and final part of series describing Project Mulligan, the OpenStack Redo. If you missed the first part go read it. It is about changes I’d make […]
Category: Open Source
All | 2018-08-10
Project Mulligan – OpenStack RedoJess Frazelle’s tweet recently got me thinking. 1 What if I could go back and undo basically the last eight years and remake OpenStack (whatever “OpenStack” has come to entail)? […]
Community | 2014-09-26
Answering the existential question in OpenStackThere have been a slew of threads on the OpenStack Developer mailing list in the last few months that touch on overall governance and community issues. Thierry Carrez’s “the future […]
Open Source | 2012-04-06
Ushering in the OpenStack Essex ReleaseAs some of you may have noticed, the OpenStack community published its latest six-month release, codenamed Essex, this week[1]. As shown in the release notes, there’s a massive amount of […]
Open Source | 2012-02-16
TryStack.org – A Sandbox for OpenStack!Today, a project that has been a long time in the making is finally coming to fruition. Back last summer, when I was working at Rackspace, Nati Ueno from NTT […]
Git | 2012-01-19
The Science (or Art?) of Commit MessagesThere are some things in the world of development that you appreciate much more when you do a lot of code reviews. One of those things is commit messages. At […]
Open Source | 2012-01-13
Presentation: OpenStack QA – Walkthrough of Processes, Tools and CodeLast night I gave a short webinar to some folks about the basics of contributing to the Tempest project, which is the OpenStack integration test suite. It was the first […]
Open Source | 2011-12-23
OpenStack One of 10 Most Important Open Source Projects in 2011Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier recently posted his list of the top 10 most important open source projects of 2011, and OpenStack was in there. I agree that OpenStack is one of […]
Open Source | 2011-10-02
Essex Design Summit — QA Sessions to NoteThere are quite a few folks interested in QA coming to the OpenStack Essex Design Summit next week. I wanted to give you all a heads-up on the sessions that […]
All | 2010-03-14
O’Gara Cloud Computing Article Off BaseMaureen O’Gara, self-described as “the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years”, has written an article about Drizzle at Rackspace for one of Sys-con’s online zines called Cloud […]