At last week's OpenStack Design Summit, Anso Labs co-founder Jesse Andrews talked about OpenStack and NASA Nebula. (photo by Anne Gentle)
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Following its first-ever public Design Summit last week, open-source cloud project OpenStack (www.openstack.org) has planned the next two releases, code-named “Bexar” and “Cactus”, which are scheduled to be released February 3, 2011, and April 15, 2011, respectively.
In an effort to provide time for evaluation, prioritization of the work, and development, the OpenStack community has imposed a specs submission deadline for Bexar, effectively freezing the list of new blueprints considered at 23:59 UTC on November 18.
All branches should then be proposed before the branch merge proposal freeze on January 6, 2011. The feature freeze happens a week later when all included branches must be merged. On January 25, there is a “Gamma Freeze”, in which the release is tested for critical issues. A Release Candidate is scheduled for launch on February 1, and then a final release on February 3.
“The schedule for Bexar is set in stone and a tentative schedule for C[actus] is also proposed,” reads community documentation on the release schedule. The suggested release date for Cactus is April 15.
The Bexar release schedule and features were discussed and mapped out at the four-day Design Summit, which was hosted by Rackspace (www.rackspace.com), a founding member of the project, and was held at the Weston Centre in San Antonio, Texas.
The Design Summit featured more than 250 participants spanning over 90 companies and 14 countries. It featured keynotes from NASA, Rackspace, Anso and Accenture, as well as an “InstallFest,” in which attendees were able to test and document the installation process on a live, on-site environment provided by Dell and powered by the company’s PowerEdge C server line.
“From development, to documentation and deployment, last week’s OpenStack Design Summit enabled the OpenStack community to come together to learn and make the key decisions for the next two code releases,” OpenStack “chief stacker” and general manager Jim Curry said in a statement. “The themes for the week were how to execute on enterprise and service provider deployments, and the immense opportunity for the commercial ecosystem.”
Dozens of developers contributed to the first OpenStack release, known as “Austin”. Many of these same developers proposed new features for the Bexar release.
Awards were given to developers and documentation writers who made significant contributions to Austin, including Vish Ishaya of Anso Labs, Jay Pipes of Rackspace and Alex Polvi of Cloudkick for the developer awards, and Stephen Milton of ISO Media, Anthony Young of Anso Labs and David Pravec for documentation.
The tentative date for the next design summit is the week of April 25, 2011.
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