OpenStack Developer Mailing List Digest August 19th – 25th

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rosmaita: Glance is merging like crazy today! welcome back jokke_ , and thanks flaper87, mfedosin , abhishekk, and smcginnis [1]
coolsvap: devs, the community support for pycharm subscription has been extended by one year! Enjoy [2]
Rosmaita: Glance Pike RC-2 is now available! [3]

PTG Planning

Skip Level Upgrades[12]
Cyborg [13]
Keystone has things they want to share with the Baremetal/VM SIG [14]
CI Squad week 34 [24]

Summaries

TC Report 34[4]
api-sig/news [5]
TC Update- Aug 25th [15]
placement/resource providers update 33 [16]

Updates

Magnum is back to weekly meetings starting 8/22 every Tuesday at 16:00 UTC
Updating the Docs Mission Statement [17]
- Thierry proposed [18]:
  - The docs team provides guidance, assistance, tooling, and style guides
    enabling OpenStack project teams to produce consistent, accurate, and
    high-quality documentation.
- Shifting opinions towards starting from scratch- looking at what the docs team actually does/makes before crafting words around it [19]
- Discussion will likely continue at the PTG
Microversion Parse Growth [20]
- cdent has a patch that has started cleaning up and shifting miroversion related functions out of the placement serves and into a microversion-parse library [21]
- Still more work to be done- decorators that handle multiple callables of the same name based on microversion, utility method to raise a status code response based microversion match, etc
- cdent would like opinions on how to proceed
Custom Resource Classes, Bare Metal Scheduling and You [22]
- If you run a 3rd party CI– this is important
- In Pike, Nova provides a new way of scheduling baremetal based on custom resource classes
- The old way is now deprecated but will be UNAVAILABLE in Queens
- All operators running ironic will have to set the resource class field before upgrading to Pike and change flavors before upgrading to Queens
- The ironic virt driver in Nova is going to be automatically migrating the embedded flavor within existing instances in Pike [23]
- A periodic task in the nova-compute service
  will automatically create any custom resource class from an ironic node
  in the Placement service if it does not already exist
Install Guide Testing [25]
- Docs team needs volunteers to test and verify the installation instructions [26]
- If you find things that need work, add them here [27]
- Teams in particular that should take note:
  - Cinder
  - Keystone
  - Horizon
  - Neutron
  - Nova
  - Glance
Reducing Code Complexity as a to-5 goal [6]
- Different than former approaches- cdent proposes prioritization of a few simple rules of thumb
  - Extracing methods
  - Keeping methods short
  - Avoiding side effects
  - Keeping modules short
- Cdent proposed a patch [7]
- Current Top 5 list [8]
CleanUp Oslo Deprecated Stuff [9]
- There are a lot of things that need to be cleaned up in Queens that have been deprecated in Oslo[10]
- If you have questions- go to the oslo helproom at the PTG
- Common gerrit topic will be ‘oslo-debt-cleanup’ to help track reviews around this technical debt
Marking <= mitaka EOL[11]
- There are a number of old stable/* branches that need to be cleaned up
- If you are involved in the following projects, please speak up!
  - QA
  - Group-based-policy
  - Zaqar
  - Packaging-deb
  - Fuel
  - networking-*
- Removal is set to happen at the PTG