Developer's black hole
Hi. I’m Flavio Percoco (a.k.a flaper87), and I’m a Software Engineer at Red Hat, where I spend my days working on OpenStack, speaking at conferences. In my spare time I contribute to Rust, write, read, surf, travel, smoke my coffee and drink my pipe.
Let me tell you something about being a PTL
It's that time of the cycle, in OpenStack, when projects need to elect who's going to be the PTL for the next 6 months. People look at the, hopefully many, candidacies and vote based on the proposals that are more sound to them. I believe, for the PTL elections, the …
Back from Vancouver, towards Liberty
Fever is gone (actual fever), energies are coming back and the next six months are blurried by all the things we have ahead. Besides the fever, I'd say this is what a normal summit feels like. Or well, what the feeling after the summit is like.
Just like in every …
Rhones-Alpes meetup summary
I love meetups. They are a more intimate moment for local communities to get closer, interact and dive into topics related to the main focus of the meetup group. I organize myself 3 meetups in Milan and I really enjoy the opportunity to get to know local people and learn …
What's coming in Kilo for Glance, Zaqar and Oslo?
As usual, here's a write up of what happened last week during the OpenStack Summit. More than a summary, this post contains the plans we discussed for the next 6 months.
Glance
Lots of things happened in Juno for Glance. Work related to artifacts was done, async workers were implemented …
Non-opinionated software can't exist
Here's a thing. I don't believe there's such a thing like "non opinionated" software and I think we should all be more careful when we communicate what the goals of our projects are. The later may not be new to you, probably not even the former but yet, I keep …