OpenStack Austin Summit Recap

What is the Summit?

A twice yearly gathering of OpenStack Aficionados

This Summit

• Austin, Texas 
• April 2016 
• 14th event
• Release of Mitaka
• Preparation for Newton Release

Summits include

• OpenStack Conference
  • Marketplace exhibitor hall
  • Vendor rooms/demos
• Lunch
• Lots of free evening events
• Ops Summit
• Design Summit
• TC Meeting

Held on Monday
Chance for operators to engage with developers

Sessions

• Taxonomy of Failures
• Liberty Upgrades
  • Many clouds still run Kilo (2015.01)
• Logging
• Deployment Methods
• Containers
• Documentation - Ops Guide
• ...

Interesting engagement

100+ people on room

80 people working on etherpad

interactive visual discussion in conjuction
with verbal discussion

Held Tuesday - Friday

Summit Structure

• Cross-project meetings
• Project specific meetings
  • Fishbowl sessions
  • Working sessions

Topics are worked out ahead of time by teams in IRC/Etherpad
(i.e. very transparent)
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Design_Summit/Newton/Etherpads

What happens

• Scope of work proposed via blueprints and specs for Newton cycle
• Priorities set by milestones N1, N2, N3
• Very developer centric design philosophy
• Very vendor neutral
• 100s of sessions

Interesting Session

• Backwards compatibility testing
• Ensure Oslo libraries are consistent for projects
• Non Oslo libraries have different release cadence

In layman's terms, an Oslo API change made in Mitaka (the last release) must remain fully backward compatible throughout the entire Newton release (the current release).

https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/newton-oslo-backwards-compat-testing

Recaps and Priorities

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-April/
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-May/

Hot Topic from Summit?

Support of Go

Swift hummingbird

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-May/093680.html