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New website live! Feedback welcome
by Dave Neary 30 Nov '12

30 Nov '12

Hi everyone, The new oVirt website is now live! http://www.ovirt.org We have made some changes to the infrastructure (the website is now running on MediaWiki: http://www.mediawiki.org on Red Hat's Platform as a Service offering OpenShift: https://openshift.redhat.com) and also to the look and feel. There is a new theme, designed and laid out by Garrett Lesage, some new content to discover, and best of all, since the entire website is now a wiki, it will be much easier to maintain over time. We have been careful to ensure that all of the old website links redirect to appropriate pages on the new site. If you find any dead links, or redirects which do not make sense, please let us know! And as the site has had limited exposure up to this point, we are happy to hear your feedback on things you like, and things we can improve. Thank you all for your support, assistance and understanding throughout this process! Regards, Dave. -- Dave Neary - Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Ph: +33 9 50 71 55 62 / Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13

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Re: Outage :: wiki and www :: 2100 to 0100 UTC Thu 29 Nov/Fri 30 Nov
by Karsten 'quaid' Wade 30 Nov '12

30 Nov '12

This outage is now over. The wiki is writeable again, redirects of old content to new locations are working, and you should be able to go about reading, writing, creating, and collaborating. Enjoy the new look&feel: http://www.ovirt.org There are a lot of small components making *.ovirt.org run, it's fairly certain we've missed something. If you see anything wrong, broken, or confusing a, you can drop by IRC, email infra(a)ovirt.org, or file a ticket here: http://fedorahosted.org/ovirt Thanks to everyone for making this migration happen. It's going to be nice not having to manage the platform for these non-core-technology components. The Infra team will be able to focus a bit more on the deeper parts of the oVirt infrastructure of participation. In particular, thanks to: * Garrett Lesage lead the effort to improve not only the look&feel of the ovirt.org website, but to reconsider the user experience. He worked on making the top-level of the site show what the technology is, what the project is, and what you can download and do here. He took on the challenge of making MediaWiki look good for all the user classes - casual browser through to regular contributor. (And thanks especially for saving the front page this week when we realized we didn't have the desired video content and feed widgets available.) * Dave Neary focused on taking the framework of the new site and breathing life in to it with content pages, redirects, MediaWiki extensions, and so forth. He worked on troubleshooting our transfer details, tracking project details and progress, and generally beating on parts until he hammered them in to shape. Thanks also to Jason Brooks, who took advantage of the tradition of IRC to just get involved in what was happening. Jason helped troubleshoot and fix some of the transfer details, such as http rewrite rules. Overall, I've been pleased with the transparency and accessibility of the process. I hope others feel the same, but regardless of how you feel, your feedback is very appreciated. Thanks - Karsten On 11/29/2012 01:02 PM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote: > This outage is now starting. We'll be freezing the wiki at > wiki.ovirt.org for the duration of the outage window. If you want to > watch, participate, or have urgent questions, we're on #ovirt on > irc.oftc.net. > > On 11/28/2012 10:48 PM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote: >> We are having a four-hour freeze and short outage of the wiki and www >> portions of ovirt.org to migrate to OpenShift. >> >> 2100 UTC Thu 29 Nov to 0100 UTC Fri 30 Nov >> >> date -d '2100 UTC Thu Nov 29' >> >> We are targeting the DNS switch to happen at 2359 UTC Thu 29 Nov. >> >> This migration includes updating to a new theme for the site. We expect >> there to be no downtime for access to content on the website. During the >> four-hour window we'll be working to make sure URLs linking in to the >> old content forward directly to the new website. The freeze on the wiki >> is expected to complete on or before the four-hour mark. >> >> The new theme and information layout have been presented and discussed, >> this is just the final portion where we turn the lights on in a new >> location, and dim the lights in the old. >> >> Any questions, concerns, ideas, etc. just let us know. We'll do a final >> minute reminder via email and IRC when the outage window starts. Status >> updates will also by via email and IRC, as arisen. >> >> == Affected services == >> >> www.ovirt.org >> wiki.ovirt.org >> ovirt.org/releases >> ovirt.org/meetings >> ovirt.org/stats >> >> == Future considerations == >> >> If we had a strict infrastructure change management process, we would >> have coordinated better with the rest of the contributor teams to be >> sure this work didn't interrupt their workflow. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Arch mailing list >> Arch(a)ovirt.org >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/arch >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Arch mailing list > Arch(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Analyst - Community Growth http://TheOpenSourceWay.org .^\ http://community.redhat.com @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41

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Fwd: Outage :: wiki and www :: 2100 to 0100 UTC Thu 29 Nov/Fri 30 Nov
by Karsten 'quaid' Wade 29 Nov '12

29 Nov '12

Hi: I should have sent these to the announce@ and users@ mailing lists, just in case there are wiki editors on those lists who are not reading arch@ (which is ideally the central all-contributors mailing list.) We'll adjust the Infra team methods in the future to send outage announcements to all these lists for maximum coverage. Below are details of this outage, which began 30 minutes ago. The wiki is in readonly mode until it is migrated fully to OpenShift. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Outage :: wiki and www :: 2100 to 0100 UTC Thu 29 Nov/Fri 30 Nov Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:48:03 -0800 From: Karsten 'quaid' Wade <kwade(a)redhat.com> Organization: Red Hat To: <arch(a)ovirt.org> <arch(a)ovirt.org> CC: infra <infra(a)ovirt.org> We are having a four-hour freeze and short outage of the wiki and www portions of ovirt.org to migrate to OpenShift. 2100 UTC Thu 29 Nov to 0100 UTC Fri 30 Nov date -d '2100 UTC Thu Nov 29' We are targeting the DNS switch to happen at 2359 UTC Thu 29 Nov. This migration includes updating to a new theme for the site. We expect there to be no downtime for access to content on the website. During the four-hour window we'll be working to make sure URLs linking in to the old content forward directly to the new website. The freeze on the wiki is expected to complete on or before the four-hour mark. The new theme and information layout have been presented and discussed, this is just the final portion where we turn the lights on in a new location, and dim the lights in the old. Any questions, concerns, ideas, etc. just let us know. We'll do a final minute reminder via email and IRC when the outage window starts. Status updates will also by via email and IRC, as arisen. == Affected services == www.ovirt.org wiki.ovirt.org ovirt.org/releases ovirt.org/meetings ovirt.org/stats == Future considerations == If we had a strict infrastructure change management process, we would have coordinated better with the rest of the contributor teams to be sure this work didn't interrupt their workflow. -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Analyst - Community Growth http://TheOpenSourceWay.org .^\ http://community.redhat.com @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41

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[Fwd: Outage :: wiki and www :: 2100 to 0100 UTC Thu 29 Nov/Fri 30 Nov]
by Mike Burns 29 Nov '12

29 Nov '12

Just FYI for people -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Karsten 'quaid' Wade <kwade(a)redhat.com> > To: <arch(a)ovirt.org> <arch(a)ovirt.org> > Cc: infra <infra(a)ovirt.org> > Subject: Outage :: wiki and www :: 2100 to 0100 UTC Thu 29 Nov/Fri 30 > Nov > Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:48:03 -0800 > > We are having a four-hour freeze and short outage of the wiki and www > portions of ovirt.org to migrate to OpenShift. > > 2100 UTC Thu 29 Nov to 0100 UTC Fri 30 Nov > > date -d '2100 UTC Thu Nov 29' > > We are targeting the DNS switch to happen at 2359 UTC Thu 29 Nov. > > This migration includes updating to a new theme for the site. We expect > there to be no downtime for access to content on the website. During the > four-hour window we'll be working to make sure URLs linking in to the > old content forward directly to the new website. The freeze on the wiki > is expected to complete on or before the four-hour mark. > > The new theme and information layout have been presented and discussed, > this is just the final portion where we turn the lights on in a new > location, and dim the lights in the old. > > Any questions, concerns, ideas, etc. just let us know. We'll do a final > minute reminder via email and IRC when the outage window starts. Status > updates will also by via email and IRC, as arisen. > > == Affected services == > > www.ovirt.org > wiki.ovirt.org > ovirt.org/releases > ovirt.org/meetings > ovirt.org/stats > > == Future considerations == > > If we had a strict infrastructure change management process, we would > have coordinated better with the rest of the contributor teams to be > sure this work didn't interrupt their workflow. > > -- > Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Analyst - Community Growth > http://TheOpenSourceWay.org .^\ http://community.redhat.com > @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41 > > _______________________________________________ > Arch mailing list > Arch(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

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Updated oVirt Engine Packages now available
by Ofer Schreiber 24 Nov '12

24 Nov '12

The oVirt Team is pleased to announce that an updated build of ovirt-engine is now available. This update resolves bug 869457 [1]. A previous update to the oVirt SDK would cause installs with the AllInOne plugin to fail. To update your existing system, you can use the engine-upgrade command. To install a new system from scratch, then follow the normal installation process of: # yum install ovirt-engine # engine-setup New Packages: ovirt-engine-3.1.0-4.fc17.noarch.rpm ovirt-engine-backend-3.1.0-4.fc17.noarch.rpm ovirt-engine-config-3.1.0-4.fc17.noarch.rpm ovirt-engine-dbscripts-3.1.0-4.fc17.noarch.rpm ovirt-engine-genericapi-3.1.0-4.fc17.noarch.rpm ovirt-engine-notification-service-3.1.0-4.fc17.noarch.rpm ovirt-engine-restapi-3.1.0-4.fc17.noarch.rpm ovirt-engine-setup-3.1.0-4.fc17.noarch.rpm ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-allinone-3.1.0-4.fc17.noarch.rpm ovirt-engine-tools-common-3.1.0-4.fc17.noarch.rpm ovirt-engine-userportal-3.1.0-4.fc17.noarch.rpm ovirt-engine-webadmin-portal-3.1.0-4.fc17.noarch.rpm All packages are available at http://www.ovirt.org/releases/3.1/rpm/Fedora/17/noarch/ Thanks The oVirt Team [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/869457

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oVirt 3.2 Released Delayed
by Mike Burns 15 Nov '12

15 Nov '12

Due to a desire to support Fedora 18 and the Fedora 18 schedule slip, we have delayed the upcoming 3.2 release. The new target dates are now: Devel Freeze/Beta: 2012-11-28 Test Day: 2012-12-11 GA: 2013-01-09 Thanks The oVirt Team

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oVirt at LinuxCon Europe Next Week
by Jason Brooks 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

LinuxCon Europe 2012 is taking place next week in Barcelona, Spain, alongside a cluster of related workshops and summits, several of which will focus on the oVirt Project. If you are planning on attending LinuxCon Europe next week, it should provide a great opportunity to connect with other oVirt community members in attendance. If you know others outside the community who plan to be at LinuxCon Europe, and who may be interested in learning more about oVirt, please pass along this information. On Monday November 5, from 10:30am to 7:00pm, and continuing on Tuesday from 10:30am to 4:30pm, there will be a Technology Showcase with booths from LinuxCon Europe exhibitors. The oVirt Project will be in booth #22, on the ground floor of the Hotel Fira Palace. On Tuesday November 6, the oVirt Project's own Itamar Heim, from Red Hat, will giving the talk, "Introduction to the oVirt Virtualization Management Platform," from 2:15 pm to 3:10pm, at the Hotel Fira Palace, in the Verdi room, as part of the CloudOpen Summit. On Wednesday November 7, the oVirt Workshop will kick off at 9am in the L'ARIA Restaurant, before covering an introduction to oVirt, architecture and roadmap presentations, and deep dives into oVirt networking and storage, leading up to a Hands-On Install & Play Lab from 3:30pm to 6:00pm. Also on Wednesday, at the KVM Forum, there will be an oVirt Demo from 5:30pm to 6:00pm in the Ambar room. On Thursday November 8, the oVirt Workshop resumes at 9:00am in the Rubi room, with a full day of sessions devoted to oVirt integration topics. Also on Thursday, at 11:15am, Red Hat's Vijay Bellur will be giving a talk on "Integrating GlusterFS, oVirt and KVM" as part of the Gluster Workshop, in the Vivaldi room. On Friday November 9, the oVirt Workshop will begin its final day with a brief keynote in the Ambar room, before proceeding with a day of developer-focused topics back in the Rubi room. For details on the oVirt Workshop agenda, see the schedule at http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum/schedule. For information about LinuxCon Europe 2012, see event site at http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe.

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oVirt Workshop Europe 2012: Call For Participation
by workshop-pc＠ovirt.org 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

================================================================= oVirt Workshop Europe 2012: Call For Participation November 7-9, 2012 - Hotel Fira Palace - Barcelona, Spain (All submissions must be received before midnight Sep 14th, 2012) ================================================================= The oVirt Project is an open virtualization project for anyone who cares about Linux-based KVM virtualization. Providing a feature-rich server virtualization management system with advanced capabilities for hosts and guests, including high availability, live migration, storage management, system scheduler, and more. By open we mean open source & open governance, done right. During this workshop you’ll learn about the technical background and direction of the oVirt project. You’ll meet the developers, and have an opportunity to see and dive into the code right away. The workshop is open to all who want to use, get involved with, or learn about the comprehensive open virtualization management platform, oVirt. The sessions cover the technical projects details, governance, getting involved, usage, and much more. If you have any interest in an Open Virtualization Management platform, this workshop is for you! We are excited to announce that this oVirt Workshop will be held in conjunction with the KVM Forum. http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum/ The KVM Forum and oVirt Workshop are co-located with the Linux Foundation's 2012 LinuxCon Europe in Barcelona, Spain. oVirt Workshop attendees will be able to attend KVM Forum sessions and are eligible to attend LinuxCon Europe for a discounted rate. http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum/register We invite you to lead part of the discussion by submitting a speaking proposal for oVirt Workshop 2012. http://events.linuxfoundation.org/cfp Suggested topics: - community use case/stories - roadmaps - deep dives into features/areas - deep dives into code/debugging/tuning - integration and extensions - components: engine, vdsm, node, sdk/cli, reports, mom, guest agent, etc. - subjects: network, storage, vm life cycle, scheduling & sla, gluster, etc. - packaging, installation and distributions - community infrastructure and services SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS Abstracts due: Sep 14th, 2012 Notification: Sep 28th, 2012 Please submit a short abstract (~150 words) describing your presentation proposal. In your submission please note how long your talk will take. Slots vary in length up to 45 minutes. Also include in your proposal the proposal type -- one of: - technical talk - end-user talk - birds of a feather (BOF) session Submit your proposal here: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/cfp You will receive a notification whether or not your presentation proposal was accepted by Sep 14th. END-USER COLLABORATION One of the big challenges as developers is to know what, where and how people actually use our software. We will reserve a few slots for end users talking about their deployment challenges and achievements. If you are using oVirt in production you are encouraged submit a speaking proposal. Simply mark it as an end-user collaboration proposal. As an end user, this is a unique opportunity to get your input to developers. BOF SESSION We will reserve some slots in the evening after the main conference tracks, for birds of a feather (BOF) sessions. These sessions will be less formal than presentation tracks and targetted for people who would like to discuss specific issues with other developers and/or users. If you are interested in getting developers and/or uses together to discuss a specific problem, please submit a BOF proposal. LIGHTNING TALKS In addition to submitted talks we will also have some room for lightning talks. These are short (5 minute) discussions to highlight new work or ideas that aren't complete enough to warrant a full presentation slot. Lightning talk submissions and scheduling will be handled on-site at oVirt Workshop. HOTEL / TRAVEL The oVirt Workshop Europe 2012 will be held in Barcelona, Spain at the Hotel Fira Palace. http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum/hotel Thank you for your interest in oVirt. We're looking forward to your submissions and seeing you at the oVirt Workshop Europe 2012 in November! Thanks, your oVirt Workshop Europe 2012 Program Commitee Please contact us with any questions or comments. workshop-pc(a)ovirt.org

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ANNOUNCE: oVirt 3.1 Release
by Ofer Schreiber 08 Aug '12

08 Aug '12

The oVirt Project's second official release, version 3.1, ships with a set of storage, interface and infrastructure enhancements that narrow the gaps between the open source virtualization platform and proprietary alternatives. oVirt 3.1 adds support for capturing and cloning from live snapshots, for virtual disk and network adapter hot plugging, and for connecting externally-hosted LUNs to oVirt virtual machines. The oVirt 3.1 web administration console also includes new interfaces for managing floating virtual disks and for configuring Gluster storage volumes. In the 3.1 release, Red Hat Directory Server and IBM Tivoli Directory Server join IPA and Active Directory as supported identity providers, which administrators may pair with initial support for user-based resource quota capabilities. For more information on oVirt 3.1, including installation instructions, please see the release notes at http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/OVirt_3.1_release_notes . The new release is avilable for download at http://www.ovirt.org/get-ovirt/ For the entire oVirt community, thanks for your participation in making this release happen. In particular, thanks to anyone who contributed to the release through testing, submitting patches, and bug reporting. Ofer Schreiber oVirt release manager, on behalf of the oVirt team.

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Update on oVirt 3.1 Release Date
by Ofer Schreiber 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

Due to some critical issues that are still outstanding, we've decided to delay the release of oVirt 3.1 by 2 weeks. We are now targeting 2012-08-08 for the release. For details on the issues currently blocking the release, please see the bugs listed here[1]. Thanks, Ofer Schreiber oVirt Release Manager [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=822145&hide_resolved=1

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