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Discussion in 'Political Discussion' started by mikey, Dec 20, 2008.
U.S. may double presence in Afghanistan - Afghanistan- msnbc.com
US to add 30,000 new troops
are you serious? then what is Bush? the Chaos and Annihilation President?
BTW. Obama hasn't been sworn in... how is he calling the shots?
George Bush is a buffoon.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Springboks brush aside Welsh challenge with convincing win in Durban
South Africa were far too strong for Wales in Durban on Saturday, delivering a clinical performance to give them a 38-16 victory in the first of two Tests. A dominant forward pack and some excellent play out wide led to five tries being scored by the Springboks.
It was a rough build up for South Africa, as key back Frans Steyn pulled out of the squad and there were a few exclusions due to illness and injury, including captain Jean De Villiers. They regrouped well and on his first start, former Junior World Championship star Jan Serfontein was superb.
With the midfield worries patched up - wing JP Pietersen did the job at second center - the forwards bullied the Welsh, who had no answer for their lineout drive and speed at the breakdown.
In the first half they swept Wales aside with relative ease, and with the knockout blow delivered (28-9 at halftime), took the foot off the pedal and made a few errors in the second.
"We struggled to cope with that pace and intensity in the first half," said Warren Gatland.
"By half-time the game had gone away from us already and credit to South Africa for the way they played. I thought [Willie] Le Roux was a pest. He was outstanding and caused us a lot of trouble.
Fullback Le Roux, who made a huge amount of progress last season, had an excellent game.
"Willie is probably the best fullback in the world at the moment," said Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer. "He was world-class tonight. He didn't set a foot wrong, he was unbelievable under the high ball and those chips were just outstanding.
"He is playing with a lot of confidence and has a license to express himself. I am very happy about his progress since he started on the wing last season. I challenged him to improve his aerial skills and defence last season and he did that very well."
When asked how the Welsh can stop Le Roux in the second Test, backs coach Shaun Edwards joked in today's press conference: "I thought about locking him in the toilet before the game."
Bryan Habana finished well to score twice, while Duane Vermeulen, Le Roux and debutant wing Cornal Hendricks crossed the tryline. Alex Cuthbert scored a very well taken try for the visitors.
The second and final Test will be at the Mombela Stadium in Nelspruit on Saturday.
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Sunday, June 15, 2014
Jebb Sinclair controversially red carded for 'leading with the elbow'
Canada came agonisingly close to a famous victory over Scotland on Saturday, but had a late penalty reversed due to a controversial sending off. Scotland will be relieved to have won the tour game 19-17 after the home side pushed them all the way.
Both sides scored a try apiece in Toronto, but the Six Nations side failed to take control of the clash as the Canadians stayed in the game right to the death. They could easily have snuck a win too if it weren't for the referee and TMO intervention.
London Irish loose forward Jebb Sinclair made a strong run through the midfield, taking out Ruaridh Jackson in the process, and while play continued and Canada were eventually awarded a kickable penalty, New Zealand referee Mike Fraser called on the TMO to have a look at the incident.
The 18 788 local fans watched on in horror as Fraser judged that Sinclair had led with the elbow, and deserved to be red carded for it. Canada were denied the shot at goal, and had to play the last few minutes with just 14 men.
"For me, it wasn't even a penalty against Sinclair and decisions like these set a dangerous precedent," said former Scotland international Mike Blair in his BBC column. He said that if referees are going to penalise and punish that type of thing, then they need to at least be consistent.
Canada captain Tyler Ardron, who could be heard saying to the referee something like 'It's happened the entire game. How many elbows have we had in the face? What do you have against us?' said post match that they shouldn't have left it that late in the game to go for the win.
"I'm sure that call is what's going to be talked about this week. I don't think it should have come down to that, we should have closed it out before that, it shouldn't have made a difference."
What do you think of the red card for 'a deliberate elbow to the head'?
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New Zealand win England series 2-0 with victory in Dunedin
New Zealand wrapped up their with England by winning the second Test 28-27 in front of a capacity crowd at the Forsyth Barr stadium in Dunedin on Saturday. The All Blacks retain the Hilary Shield, with one match left to play in Hamilton next weekend.
England started well, scoring the first try of the game through Marland Yarde, but had to wait until the final ten minutes to cross again. New Zealand scored three tries of their own, through Ben Smith, Julian Savea and Ma'a Nonu.
In the first half a breakaway chance for Manu Tuilagi down the right wing could have extended England's early lead, but he wasn't able to break the cover defence, or find a supporting player.
With dominant possession and territory, the All Blacks took their chances and with the score at 28-13 at one stage, the game was out of reach. An injury time try to Chris Ashton - from an excellent Tuilagi offload - added gloss to the final score, but the win was already secured.
"We certainly played better than in the first Test but we needed to because England were a lot better, too," said New Zealand coach Steve Hansen. "It was a great Test match. The ball was thrown around and everyone would have left satisfied with what they saw.
Stuart Lancaster's England side are in a good position ahead of next year's Rugby World Cup, with a good squad system developing. "Scoring three tries in Dunedin is not a bad return so we are moving in the right direction but we didn't quite finish the deal."
Skipper Chris Robshaw said that they'll aim to finish the tour on a high, despite two losses.
"It's a result-based industry and unfortunately we've had two losses and lost the series. But we've got another match to come next week and we're going to come out fighting again."
England play the Crusaders on Tuesday before the final Test in Hamilton on Saturday.
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Saturday, June 14, 2014
Fiji score six tries in Pacific Nations Cup rout against Tonga
Fiji got their 2014 Pacific Nations Cup defence under way with a convincing 45-17 win over Tonga at Churchill Park in Lautoka earlier today. The defending champions scored six tries and played some excellent rugby, with the backs in particular running riot.
Glasgow Warriors star Nikola Matawalu steered the ship and put the backs in space, allowing the likes of Nemani Nadolo, Watisoni Votu and veteran Sireli Bobo to do what they do best.
Winger Bobo, now 38 years of age believe it or not, scored twice including what was one of the tries of the match. Centre Nadolo, who was given the kicking duties, scored a try of his own and kicked 15 points, while Votu also picked up a brace. Captain Akapusi Qera crossed late in the game too.
With a 24-3 lead at the break Fiji always looked in control of things, and Tonga were only able to cross the whitewash with twenty minutes to go, following a yellow card for wing Votu.
"The Fijians are always dangerous from broken play and you can see today they punished us," said Tongan captain Nili Latu. "We just had no answer. We were here to win and to fight to the end and played well in the second half.
"Last week the Samoans were not as quick and there's no system on defence that can stop them from broken play. That's the danger from the Fiji team."
Fiji are joint first round winners after Japan's 34-25 win over Canada last weekend. Samoa, who drew 18-18 with Tonga, beat Italy 15-0 today after five Tusi Pisi penalties proved the difference in the Italian's tour match in Apia. The United States are hosting Japan later today.
Posted at 2:00 pm | 5 comments
Friday, June 13, 2014
The Top 5 Fans Gone Wild Moments Ever
It's a great time to be a rugby fan with an absolute overload of quality matches taking place in both recent and upcoming weeks. Attending live is great fun, but the big occasion can get the better of those in the stands. Here's a look at five such moments.
Two of the five clips here are positive in nature, featuring the great craic from the Ireland fans at the Rugby World Cup, and then a Bulls fan that is literally hard to miss. The other three moments of madness, two in particular, will hopefully never be repeated.
Those two were actually featured on RD many years back, so for more details, you can view those in the Related Posts below. There are also a few streaker and fan related moments in there that you may not have seen before, but will probably enjoy.
In fact we've rammed a whole lot in there (below the video), so once you've watched this highly amusing selection from down under, have a browse to see what you'll find.
Some of the crazier moments feature dad's fighting for their sons, a fan drinking a little too much so having to get rid of it the best way possible, and a man invading the pitch to chat to the referee.
Thanks again to Fox Sports and Rugby HQ for the entertaining compilation. You can view more excellent Top 5 videos in our archive for it, aptly named, Top 5 Compilations
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Five Biggest Hits of the 2013/2014 Aviva Premiership Season
Premiership Rugby have put together their selection of the five biggest tackles that took place in the latest 2013/2014 Aviva Premiership Season. We featured a few of them, but here's another look as you may have missed one or two.
While England look ahead to tomorrow's second Test with the All Blacks, the Premiership final took place a few weeks ago in what was the culmination of a very good domestic season.
There were plenty of excellent tries, some highly competitive rugby or of course with any tournament or league that features the likes of Courtney Lawes and Jacques Burger, many big hits.
The latter actually got a taste of his own medicine against Harlquins though, as young prop Kyle Sinkler took it to him with a crunching tackle that rocked the Namibian, albeit temporarily.
Elsewhere, Joe Marler showed the world how to smash big Welsh winger George North, and Lawes demolished Charlie Hodgson. Then there was George Pisi knocking Shane Geraghty into a really bad place, with the London Irish back clearly feeling ill for about ten minutes after the hit.
You can see all of those and more in the compilation clip below, and we've linked to the posts that feature these tackles, and a few others, in the Related Posts below this video. Enjoy.
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Thursday, June 12, 2014
The Best Five Tries from Round three of the 2014 Junior World Championship
The semi-finals of the 2014 Junior World Championship take place this Sunday, with England taking on Ireland, and New Zealand hosting South Africa. Here's a quick look at some of the best tries that were scored in round three of the tournament, currently taking place in and around Auckland.
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This is the second issue of James Brett's 5 Questions. From the first issue of 5 Questions "The ideas was to ask five specific questions to members of the Scrum community and post the their replies." In issue 2 of the five questions series we hear from one of the godfarthers of Scrum Ken Schwaber.
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Teams: Sri Lanka
Kumar Sangakkara hoped better communication between administrators and players would in future help avoid the dearth of Test cricket that Sri Lanka face in 2013. When the Sydney Test ends early in the new year Sri Lanka will have played their last Test against top-flight opposition until December. Two-thousand-and-thirteen had shaped to be a busy year for Sri Lanka in the longest format, but the removal of five Tests now means a glut of ODI cricket will now overwhelm their schedule.
A two-Test series in the West Indies was the first to be scrapped, as both boards scrambled to make their players available for the duration of the IPL - a significant boon for that tournament, given Sri Lanka and West Indies were finalists in this year's World Twenty20. In place of the cancelled Tests, the teams will play a budget-friendly ODI tri-series involving India, which can only take place after the Champions' Trophy, which was the time Sri Lanka had originally been slated to host South Africa at home.
That three-Test series was then postponed until 2015, with the Sri Lanka Premier League, which is scheduled for early August, ensuring that South Africa's visit could not be moved to that month. The culling of Tests from Sri Lanka's schedule had already become a theme of the present administration, who also did away with one home Test against then world No.1 England in March this year, as well as replacing two Tests against India in July and August with a five-match ODI series.
The news of the Test removals were met with personal disappointment among the seniors in the Sri Lanka team, but in November captain Mahela Jayawardene defended the board's decisions, suggesting the preference of limited-overs cricket over Tests would allow the board to continue to function despite its financial distress. If both of the two Tests scheduled in Zimbabwe materialise, Sri Lanka will play no more than six Tests in the year, with four of those having been against Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.
"I think each country should play a minimum of 10 to 12 Test matches a year," Sangakkara said. "Hopefully 12 Test matches a year. We need to make sure that we find time to do that. I think players and administrators and everyone should really be together and talk on these things and understand that Test cricket is important. That's the only way cricketers are going to improve."
Sri Lanka last played South Africa at home in 2006, when they defeated the visitors 2-0 in a two Test series. At 35, Sangakkara may not be playing Test cricket in 2015, while 35-year-old Mahela Jayawardene and 36-year-olds Tillakaratne Dilshan and Thilan Samaraweera are also likely to consider retirement before that series.
"South Africa coming to Sri Lanka would have been a fantastic opportunity for us to try and beat the number one side in our own conditions. We have done that before. So it's disappointing. Hopefully, there will be more Test matches played and more thought put into scheduling and having a discussion as to how we fit in ten to 12 Test Matches a year."
Sangakkara also said the detriments of the paucity of Tests would spread beyond the Test specialists in the team, like Samaraweera, Prasanna Jayawardene, Chanaka Welegedara and Suraj Randiv.
"It's not just disappointing for them, even for us. Whatever the form you play, you want to play more Test cricket. So hopefully after next year we can be more proactive in our scheduling and we can talk on which countries are willing to come and play and how are we going to schedule Test cricket so that it is kept as the ultimate form of the game."
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The cricket world reacts to the passing away of Phillip Hughes
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Tips to improve organizations contributing to OpenStack
The slides of my presentation at OpenStack Summit in Paris 2014 (download ODP source, 9M).
And the sessions' recording:
The slides of my presentation at OpenStack Summit in Paris 2014 (download ODP source, 9M).
And the sessions' recording:
Seven straight full time working days, starting from 9am Saturday and Sunday for the second edition of OpenStack Upstream Training to the feedback session on Friday evening at 6pm are finally over and I'm starting to catch up.
I spoke on Monday, highlighting some of the findings of my research on how to change organizations so they can better contribute to OpenStack, later lead with Rob, Sean and Allison the creation of the Product working group (more on this later). The double-length session dedicated to addressing the growth pain in Neutron has removed the "if" and left the question to "how and when do we empower drivers and plugin developers to take their fate in their own hands".
I think this has been one of the most productive summit, I'm leaving Paris with the feeling we keep on improving our governance models and processes to better serve our ecosystem. Despite the criticisms, this community keeps on changing and adapts to new opportunities and threats like nothing I've seen before. I'm all charged up and ready for the six months of intense work leading up to Vancouver!
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It was great meeting you at the Paris summit, Stefano! It was a fantastic event!
With Paris only weeks away it's time to announce that we have a time and place to meet people whose job is to decide what OpenStack means for their company. The OpenStack Foundation has offered a room to meet in Paris on Monday, November 3rd, in the afternoon: please add the meeting to your schedule.
There have been discussions in the past weeks about the hidden influencers, there was a recent call by Randy Bias to identify people, functions, groups, anything who can own the product OpenStack. The time is ripe to get to know who directly control the engineers' priorities and complete the circle of end users, operators, product owners, developers.
Rob, Sean, Allison and I have the idea of creating a working group modelled after the Operators group: get people in the same room, some time mid-cycle and sync up on the development effort. It's just an idea, mid-cycle is when the development roadmap gets more realistic, it's more clear which blueprints are in good shape and which are less likely to make it into the release. We believe it would be valuable to have a moment when product decision makers can coordinate and get a chance to share their priorities.
The room is available for 4 hours, but of course we can use for less time if needed. It makes sense to start hacking some of the topics in the next weeks, before Paris. Please join the mailing list and introduce yourself while the agenda will be drafted on the etherpad. For naming the group you can join the async brainstorming session (drop names at random and don't judge yourself nor others: everything is fair game).
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So glad you are organizing this group! Wish I was going to be at the Summit this time to participate in person.
Looking forward to the discussion Stef. See you in Paris.
The pages on wiki.openstack.org have been growing at a fast pace and it's time to give the wiki more shape: new contributors, end users and operators are having a hard time finding documentation since over time it spreads across many places. The wiki can have a role at directing readers where most appropriate. Luckily we have a team ready to help give the ~350 pages a more solid navigation and fixing content while at it:
We are keeping track of things to do on the etherpad: Action_Items_OpenStack_Wiki. Shari and I started implementing Katherine's proposed taxonomy: it's visible as a navigable tree on https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Category:Home.
- Programs
- Telemetry
- Ceilometer
- Client
- Blueprint
- …
- Block Storage
- Cinder
- Client
- Blueprints
- …
- Compute
- Nova
- Client
- Blueprints
- …
You can see this live on the wiki on https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Category:Programs. Fairly straightforward except that over the years some of the pages have started with describing a project and have now been repurposed to illustrate a Program. Look at Nova page for example: the name of the page is "Nova" but the title is OpenStack Compute. We'll definitely have to shuffle content around. For example, the Category:Programs page can be considered a duplicate of the wiki https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Programs page: since everything on mediawiki is a page, the Category pages can be edited and can be redirected to/from like all other pages. In this case, it would make sense to make high level content like Programs more of a dynamic page, like Category:Programs. The cool thing of this approach is that we can probably create new category page for new programs automatically when modifications to the programs.yaml are approved via jenkins.
Adding a taxonomy and templates (more on this later) will help newcomers discover relevant content and find information more easily. While we implement the changes to the wiki we'll also be reviewing the content on the pages, delete or mark as obsolete the old stuff and make things more readable for all. You can keep up with the progress by looking at RecentChanges.
If you'd like to help us out or find out more please feel free to contact firstname.lastname@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com
I've been collecting a lot of good insights talking to directors and managers about how their companies are organized to contribute to OpenStack. For geographic reasons I have mostly gathered comments from people between San Francisco and Silicon Valley and I'd like to expand the research.
I'm especially interested in learning about internal processes, system of incentives, things that impact performance evaluation for engineers contributing to OpenStack.
To expand the research I'm asking the OpenStack community to fill in this brief survey or contact me directly (stefano openstack.org) for a quick interview.
I think we're starting to see too much friction and pain from contributors to OpenStack plugins, drivers, extensions: a lot is going on and joining the community feels like boarding a bullet train while it's running at full speed. We've been doing a good job pulling people in the OpenStack community and educate them with our tools, processes especially for contributors to the Compute, Storage, Networking pieces of OpenStack; there are margins to improve life for "casual" contributors and newcomers in general.
The main problem I think is that we've been treating all developers like they all have the same amount of dedication to the collaboration effort. We've been asking every person contributing to OpenStack to act the same way, whether they were fixing a small bug in Keystone or refactoring Neutron's code: same gerrit review workflow, same process for blueprints/specs. We assumed always that anybody at any given time had the same level of knowledge of deadlines and recent changes to the processes. We are requiring people with radically different objectives and set of incentives to know and do the same things. I think this is starting to become too much of a problem for the community. We are already having conversations about this (split drivers, Neutron incubator, refocus summit, modify the legal requirements) and will continue discussing in Paris.
The one thing that we should start improving immediately is the documentation for new contributors. New contributors have lots of resources available like the Welcome Guide, docs.openstack.org/developer, lots of wiki pages of varying degree of correctness and quality, tips and tricks on blog posts, upcoming video series, IRC support and Upstream Training. Based on what I hear from some, they struggle because these are in different places and owned by different people. A place where this content is shown in a more coherent way would be a great improvement.
There are two efforts to improve various pieces of documentation: the Documentation program wants to redesign the Docs portal, and a new portal is being designed for developers of applications based on OpenStack. The Documentation program is not responsible for developers' content on the Docs portal, it simply hosts the materials produced directly by the programs. While we wait for a redesign of the Documentation portal, I think we can start by fixing the wiki pages. With the help of a taxonomy produced by volunteer Katherine Cranford and Foundation's staff Shari Mahrdt, we'll give a bit more structure to the OpenStack wiki. Stay tuned for more details.
I'm cruising Silicon Valley these days asking "how does your company do OpenStack?" to collect best practices and notable mistakes from various leaders of OpenStack corporate community. I'm hoping to build a 'how to' manual to help managers build better dev teams, more effective at collaborating while shipping products to their customers. This is an effort that goes hand-in-hand with training new developers with Upstream Training and other initiatives aimed at sustaining OpenStack growth.
I often have to explain to managers of OpenStack corporate members how and why to contribute to the project. The level of complexity reached has now exceeded the simple answers, like 'fix simple bugs' or 'read the wiki pages'. For example, the participants to the Upstream Training in Atlanta had difficulties finding low-hanging-fruit bugs to work on: by the time they were ready to commit, someone else had already fixed it. Too much is going on at the same time, newcomers are confused at many different levels.
While we will keep training developers through Upstream Training (and other initiatives), we're going to start talking to managers too. I'd like to know how development teams are organized, how they balance shipping products to customers with contributing upstream, what incentives are in place that help or prevent contributions to go upstream, how career paths are influenced by contributions to the open source collaboration, etc.
If you're managing a team of developers or devops, you're a CTO, a HR executive or are managing in any way a team of engineers contributing code to OpenStack, I would like to talk to you: email me and vote for my talk proposal "How to maximize effectiveness of your developers contributing to OpenStack".
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I would like to talk with you about Hazelcast an Apache licensed open source In-Memory elastic data and processing grid. I am wondering if there might be a way for us to contribute/collaborate with open stack
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Yes, but where?
If you try to solve a problem with the wrong tool you're likely going to have a frustrating experience. OpenStack developers have been using the same workflow to plan and manage development of OpenStack software over time, they chose a set of tools appropriate for the project's software development. Developers use blueprints define the roadmap for the various projects, the specifications attached to a blueprint are used to discuss the implementation details before code is submitted for review.
These are the tools for the developers and this doesn't mean that blueprints and specifications are the only way to interact with developers. Operators and users in general don't need to dive in the details of how OpenStack developers organize their work and definitely should never be asked to use tools designed for and by developers. When I read the place of a non-developer in the openstack community I immediately felt her pain: she was asked to use the wrong tool to solve a problem. I think this case is a major misunderstanding but the comments on the post signal that this is not an isolated case.'s post
The most common way for a non-developer to highlight a flaw in OpenStack is to file a new bug report. Bugs can be defects that need to be fixed or they can be requests for enhancement. In this case, Dafna filed a bug report and interacting with the triager, they agreed that the reported bug was not a defect per se but more of a request for enhancement, a wishlist.
In order to fix a defect or implement a wishlist item, developers need to file a blueprint (and a specification) before they can start writing code. If the person who filed the original bug report is also a developer then s/he can go ahead and continue carrying on the process, file a blueprint to solve a bug # and write specifications (when needed) to describe the details of the implementation. Users interested in the bug can chime in adding comments to the bug and to the specs, provide input to developers.
The process above works in similar way when the person filing the bug is not a developer, like in Dafna's case. The proper flow of bug #1323578 would have not required Dafna to file a blueprint and specs, but to have a developer do that. Users are required to interact closely with the developers to discuss the implementation details, and that's where the new specifications process helps. Gerrit may not have the best UI but it's definitely better than holding discussions on a mailing list. Adding comments and holding conversations with the developer assigned to resolve the issue, on the bug report itself is also a valid option.
While I think that as a community we have plenty of ways to improve how we include users and operators in our conversations, in this particular case, I think frustration came from being pulled in the wrong place from the beginning.
PS: To be super-clear, in this post I'm using the terms developer and operator to describe a role, not a person. One person can be at the same time a developer and an operator, and act at times as a developer writing blueprints, submitting code and as an operator filing bug, giving comments to specifications.
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So, while an in-depth reading of your article here makes it clear that your comments are meant for developers– that you are saying developers shouldn't push non-developers to use tools only meant for developers, both the title and several parts of your article can be interpreted to say "stay out of my kitchen" to operators and users. I would suggest altering the title to say something less exclusionary to these other 2/3rds of the OpenStack community. (Something like "Developers should not send non-developers to launchpad or gerrit.")
Having said this, I really feel like your article somewhat misses the point of Dafna's blog post: In my reading she was frustrated because she was not able to contribute to the discussion, and her opinion was considered value-less unless she was willing to go through the (for her, arduous) task of learning two new systems which are neither user-friendly, nor particularly suited to the kind of discussion she wanted to have.
Your post reads to me somewhat like "there are tools non-developers should be using to communicate with developers, and these are not the same tools developers will use to communicate with each other." To me this is akin to the cooks getting angry at the waiters and customers for coming into their kitchen whey they have problems or suggestions. That's all fine and dandy– so long as the cooks are actually providing good tools the waiters and customers can use to communicate to them, and using those tools themselves. I read Dafna's point being that this obviously wasn't happening, and instead what was effectively red-tape was being used to make her go away.
If the OpenStack community wants to change this reputation for being exclusionary to operators and users, then this is exactly this sort of thing that needs to be worked on! Unfortunately, I don't think the way you worded your article is helping much here. :/
Also one point in particular in your article I feel I need to take issue with: "Gerrit may not have the best UI but it's definitely better than holding discussions on a mailing list." Actually, the mailing list is the perfect place to discuss ideas among a larger crowd of people when a major new idea or significant change is being contemplated. You've already said that Gerrit shouldn't be used by non-developers, so if you limit these kinds of discussions to Gerrit only, then you are thereby ignoring any input that 2/3rds of the OpenStack community might have on the subject. This can lead to solutions which don't actually meet operator or user needs at all, can lead to really poor design which then is a pain in the patootie to correct (given OpenStacks backward-compatibility policies), and certainly leads to OpenStack not being as good as it could be in the same amount of time.
Also, I don't think any search engine is indexing Gerrit (from what I can tell), and it's far too easy for comments on early revisions of a patch to get lost forever when later revisions of the patch are uploaded for review (since Gerrit doesn't carry comments forward– this needs to be done manually by attentive reviewers).
That's not to say Gerrit isn't a good tool. In fact, as consensus among the community is neared on a mailing list discussion, it's important for the details of that consensus to be translated into blueprints and specifications. Gerrit is actually probably the best tool we could be using when it comes to things mostly concerning developers (comments on specific lines of code, or specific details within a specification). But it is wholly the wrong place to be having design or feature-improvement discussions, especially with non-developer contributors like operators and users.
Hi Stefano.
I have to agree with Stephen here. I too (not being a developer) find it very difficult to navigate the multiple tools and methods used by the OpenStack project to drive directions, changes, fixes and improvements.
Let me count.
There is Gerrit.
There is Launchpad
There is IRC
There is the mailing list.
There is Etherpad.
There is the Wiki.
There is the documentation.
Oh yeah – there is even a support helpdesk (whatever that is used for)
Perhaps I missed something here – but those are the ones that come to mind.
Yes they all have their use cases, and one does not replace the other – nor should it, but the amount of information that flies across all of these – is substancial.
And as a user/operator – it took me a decent amount of time to understand how to submit a patch – something as simple as an error in a config file.
I still have problems getting my head around how the whole patch and voting system works, who has to approve, when, how, what is the difference between a +1, -1, -2, +2. What are the intricacies and clicks that need to be handled in order to get a patch submitted or re-submitted or changed. What happens when one core reviewer disagrees with another on my patch?
What will happen if you are new – will someone work with you to get the change you wanted to submit (and are doing so – only because you want to help out) and approved?
I have the feeling (and evidently I am no the only one) that the developers community think this is second nature to them – it probably is – and that those who do not know the language – the talk – the culture – are outsiders – and that they do not have the time / patience / incentive to teach them – hold their hand or walk them through it.
I can personally tell you an experience of where I asked a question in IRC about features in LBaaS and if they existed or were planned. The question that was presented to me – so why don't you start writing the code to implement these changes? My answer was I am not a developer – so my contribution on this part would not be helpful, the answer that I was given thereafter was "Forget it – we have enough architects and conceptual designers – we need people to make it happen"
Developers are a different breed, for better or for worse. The feeling Operators/users have is that we are not involved – and therefore should stay out the way of the way the "magic happens"
I for one would love to see that change. There is room for improvement in every single project – and developers could benefit immensely from the input of those who are actually deploying and using the product, in the real world.
The OpenStack project doesn't have a product manager but all companies shipping products based on components developed inside the OpenStack project have product managers. Currently the managers of OpenStack-related products don't have a way to coordinate their efforts and they constantly have to struggle with OpenStack's upstream developers, some of them working for the same company and some would not. Rob Hirschfeld, Allison Randal and Sean Roberts called them 'hidden influencers': product managers definitely contribute to shape OpenStack as much as users/operators and developers and yet they don't have a forum to talk to each other and to the rest of the community.
Dave Neary and I started talking in Hong Kong about the opportunity to start a working group for product managers and now I think the time is ripe to create one. I just proposed to create a mailing list to coordinate the first activities and I ask you to chime in. If you think that the mailing list is a good way to start giving product managers a voice in the OpenStack community, please leave your comment on gerrit. I'll be chasing product managers to sign up to the list in the coming weeks.
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Great idea, no doubt.
This is a great idea. One of the problems I am having is how to sync product releases to OpenStack releases.
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The Kraken lives! Greg Hardy, one of if not the best free agent on the market, has signed his franchise tender with the Carolina Panthers. We expect an extension to come, too, but this, for now, is the start. Panthers DE Greg Hardy signs his franchise tender, per league source. He's now under contract for […]
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Exelon Corp. (NYSE:EXC) has faced challenging situations in the recent past due to the fall in the natural gas prices, lower recent PJM West capacity prices and a dividend cut that was announced earlier. Moreover, EXC has lower profit margin, ROE, ROA and dividend yield in comparison to its peers as shown below. Due to these aforementioned factors, I remain bearish on EXC.
The potential near term performance drivers for EXC are the forward natural gas prices and future outlook of power demand and supply. EXC is highly sensitive to changes in natural gas prices. The drop in natural gas prices in 2012 did not bode well for the company and the stock price. According to Energy Information Administration [EIA], natural gas prices are likely to rise in the upcoming years, which I believe will be a positive sign for the company. It is estimated that every $1 mmBtu rise in natural gas prices will move EXC's EBITDA by $350 million to $450million for the next two years.
Lower capacity prices announced in May 2013 also does not bode well for the company. The drop in the capacity prices indicates an excess power supply in spite of the considerable coal plant retirements. Weak PJM capacity prices are a concern for EXC, as it has almost 65% of its deregulated fleet located in the PJM grid region. PJM can now receive more supply for the neighboring grids, which preclude the need for new power plants in the PJM regions, translating into lower capacity revenues for the deregulated power generators in the PJM region.
Another important catalyst for EXC's stock price, as like other utility stocks, is the rise in the bond yields. If the bond yields continue to rise, as it has in the recent months, EXC stock price will be negatively affected by it. Currently, 10 year bond yield has increased to 2.55% from 1.63% in May.
BGE (subsidiary of EXC) filed a rate case increase in May to adjust the grid investments. The filed case seeks a rate increase of $101.5 million along with a ROE of 10.5%. The approval for the pending rate case will positively impact the company's stock price.
EXC announced a dividend cut of 41% earlier this year in an effort to maintain its investment grade credit rating. The company lowered its annual dividend to $1.24 per share, with a long term payout ratio of 65% - 70%. The new annualized dividends offered by the company are backed by its regulated and deregulated business operations as the company has strong operating cash flow yield of more than 20%. EXC currently offers a dividend yield of 4%.
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EXC has an unimpressive performance in comparison to its peers. The company has lower profit margins, ROE, ROA and dividend yield in comparison to its peers as it is evident in the table above. Also, lower natural gas prices, weak PJM capacity prices and rising bond yields do not seem to be good signs for EXC's stock price performance. Therefore, I recommend investors to refrain from buying EXC.


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"Get in the car!" Cupcake hollered, sounding like that woman in the Ikea commercial. I tried to look like I was hurrying without actually going faster. I've found whenever Cupcake is anxious for me to accompany her in the car so she can show me something; it usually entails one of three things. She has found something she wants me to buy, build or do way better and I should learn from that person. This one was all three, but I didn't know it yet.
"Oh wait 'til you see it!" she enthused. "It is absolutely beautiful!"
My heart sank like a dollar store air mattress. The more beautiful something is, the more money and/or work it is to recreate. We didn't have to go far to see the object of her desires. It was a house nearby which had just put Christmas decorations up and did such a great job, it made me physically ill.
"Oh, hon, just look at those perfectly straight lines with the bulbs all pointing in the same direction!" she gushed in the throes of Christmas light envy. "It looks so much nicer than the approach some people use."
She curled her lip at the thought and I fully expected her to spit just then, to underline her antipathy for certain people's lighting methods.
"You mean like how I put them up?" I asked pointedly.
"Well, I wasn't going to use this as an opportunity to lecture you on putting up lights, but since you brought it up...."
She immediately launched a diatribe about the crucial importance of keeping wires taut and using lots of staples. I drifted off, wondering what would possess a guy to have his Christmas lights blaring in the middle of November. Not just lights, but he also had four giant inflatable decorations, putting him right at the border of tackiness without quite crossing the line. A couple more and he'd be featured in an episode of Hoarders.
"...and if the wire is curled or kinked you have to straighten it carefully before putting it up to ensure it lays properly flat against the wood as you're stapling to create that lovely, professional look, which is the goal here since haphazardly applied Christmas lights tend to look like...." orated Cupcake with a full head of steam. I'm astounded she can talk without appearing to breathe. I assume she has a blow-hole apparatus in her skull that allows her to inhale without having to stop talking.
As she continued with the finer points of decoration installation in excruciatingly minute detail, I began wondering why retailers move the yardsticks, with Christmas merchandising coming earlier every year. It's only recently Halloween and Christmas stuff had to compete for shelf space. I will admit putting scary masks on the Santa decorations was a hoot. Still, back in the day, retailers didn't start paying attention to Christmas until December. Everybody still got presents. It wasn't like there wasn't enough shopping time. Christmas doesn't exactly creep up on you, after all. The signs are everywhere; Cupcake's wondrous Christmas yard, for instance, not to mention the Friday Journal being so bloated with flyers, it weighed more than the paperboy.
"Are you listening to me?" Cupcake barked suddenly. I must have stopped smiling and nodding.
"Sure I was," I lied heartily. "You were saying how to keep the wire flat against the wood and… stuff."
"That was almost ten minutes ago when I covered that material!" she moaned. "I will have to go over proper colour choices again..."
I tried to listen, I really did. Unfortunately, Cupcake has a way of injecting many words into a smattering of salient points. It's like a 'filibuster' mode and certain topics trip the switch that starts it. Christmas lights is just one trigger subject, plus people who don't seatbelt their kids and ways I can be a better husband.
As a result, I mentally wandered off again to consider retailers sneaking Christmas stuff onto their merchandise displays in October. Do people buy more presents if they have longer to do it? If they left the Christmassy-themed everything up all year, would there be a mother lode of presents under the tree? Somehow I doubt it.
One downside of the season invading stores earlier is that we'll get sick of Christmas carols by Christmas Day even more than we do now. This is because there are far more performers singing Christmas songs than there are Christmas songs; which only number ten or so. The closer to Christmas we get, the more ubiquitous the ten songs of the season become until they are inescapable and as annoying to listen to as gangsta rap. We even start to hate Bing Crosby.
"You know, hon," I interrupted her speech, "if you know so much about how to put these lights up so perfectly, why don't you do it? It sounds like you have the theory down pat."
"What? Me?" she snorted. "Don't be ridiculous. It is way too hard on my hands to use that tacker and you know I'm afraid of heights. Plus it hurts my shoulders to work over my head like that. Besides, it's the man's job."
I came this close to using the words 'women's job' but remembered at the last second that was another lecture trigger phrase for Cupcake.
"I will do my best dear," I said. "but not until it's closer to Christmas. It's only half-past November."
"Yes, good idea," she smirked. "Wait until it's minus 40 and blizzarding out like you usually do. Then your hands get cold and we end up with a display that looks like you just threw up the lights…with an accent on 'threw up'. I won't tolerate droopy wires!"
I wish she'd stop keeping her opinions so secret.
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Spirithouse Pinot Noir is Argyle's mastery of power and grace. Contemplative and haunting, it is Argyle's crowning achievement for cool-climate Pinot Noir from Oregon's Willamette Valley.
Spirithouse Pinot Noir returns! Crafted entirely from the high elevation slopes of the Knudsen Vineyard, Spirithouse Pinot Noir requires a long, well-balanced growing season to achieve its distinctive power and elegance. Grown at elevations between 600 and 700 feet, this Pinot Noir rides the line of red clay mineral edge and voluptuous depth. Elegant red cherry, wispy floral, and savory spice, the middle palate is based in silkiness and youthful acidity. Framed around delicately firm tannins, the length is long and pure, begging for at least a decade of cellaring for her to truly open up. We recommend a companion dish: tea-smoked duck.
2012 Nuthouse Pinot Noir comes from the low-elevation, warm, southeastern slope of our Lone Star Vineyard in the Eola-Amity Hills AVA. Brilliantly garnet in color, the aromas are initially delicate and ethereal, hinting at fresh rose petal and red earth. As it opens up, more complex aromas emerge of dark chocolate, anise, and wild cherries. The mid palate is deep and creamy, poised against firm tannins and long, savory acid. You'll want to drink it right out of the gate, as this 2012 vintage comes to you fully assembled, but don't sleep on aging this little beauty, as she's got many, many years to go in the bottle. Grilled venison loin with saffron white beans, almond romesco, and bone marrow toast.
With almost 30 years of growing world-class Pinot Noir under our belts, we have the experience to recognize a new expression of the Oregon-famous varietal when it reveals itself. We've captured what's new with the first single vineyard release from our Spirit Hill Vineyard.
With initial plantings starting in 2008, Spirit Hill Vineyard is both Argyle's newest and largest vineyard, coming in at 180 acres. Just a few miles southwest from our Lone Star Vineyard, Spirit Hill is also located in the Eola-Amity Hills. However, even though the vineyards are neighbors, their profiles are much different. Lone Star sits at 250'-400' elevation, is east facing, and is our warmest site while Spirit Hill sits on top of the Eola-Amity Hills at 650'-850' elevation and is shaped like an open bowl, with aspects in every direction. This elevation, in combination with the Van Duzer Corridor's gusty winds have made Spirit Hill Vineyard a very cool climate growing site. In the northwest corner of the vineyard, tucked away in the trees, is an old, pioneer cemetery, from which has inspired the vineyard's ghostly name. The blocks adjacent to the cemetery are the site's warmest, being east facing and protected from the wind. It is here where we have crafted this first ever Spirit Hill Vineyard Pinot Noir. Dark, earthy, spice box up front, the mid palate is high elevation silk, flowing into the firm, structured tannins on the long finish.
A fantastic cross section of the Willamette Valley's finest offerings, our Reserve Pinot Noir is truly a celebration of balance. The fruit profile rides the line of red and dark fruit, and can lean in either direction depending on the day. Black cherry and Howes cranberry embraced by subtle, toasted hazelnuts, and vanillin. While the tannins are firm, but rounded, there is an underlying earthy minerality which drives the mid-palate through the long finish. While delving for pure fruit flavors and juicy acidity, we hang our phenolic hat on our trademark silky texture which has been enhanced through cold soaking in small lot fermenters, along with aging 16 months in French oak barriques.
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Argyle Pinot Noir is honest and unmingled. The 2012 vintage for Pinot Noir made itself. Fermented in small lots, and blended for purity, this year's blend croons of ripe, red raspberry, morello cherry and a hint of backwoods spice. No other word can describe the palate but lush. Gentle, slightly firm tannin beneath, the acid sings true and long. Enjoy early, or sit on it a few years for enhanced nuance.
This is our Classic "big furniture" Pinot Noir style derived from Lone Star Vineyard. Its melanite color is the first indicator of its boldness. The aroma is black cherry reduction fruit, black licorice, Earl Grey spices, and that luscious, fresh earth quality that says "Nuthouse". The flavors are big, juicy black cherry and black plum pudding spices. The texture forms a rich, creamy center to this richly ripe Pinot Noir. The ripe plum and cherry fruit carry on and on. It is a wonderful thing to experience such powerful, exotic Pinot Noir yet wonder at its bright, balanced, mineral pinpoint touch twirling on the palate.
92 Points, Wine Spectator
"How dark is the ocean, how deep is the sea?" The answer just might be in a glass of this Reserve Pinot Noir! This Pinot Noir has a seductive rich, super dark ruby-violet color. The aromas reflect one's expectations of a cool year, dark colored Pinot. Aromas leap out the glass with black cherry, black cherry leather, and cedar, cedar smoke with a ripping portion of cinnamon spice, finishing off with a delicate hint of violet flower patch. Use of new oak was delicate, so the aromas are real time Pinot Noir! The flavor is a big juicy mouthful with firm tannin structure framed by velvet texture. The fruit is all about black cherry all the way to a very long finish. Spice of "far away lands" rounds out the complexity of this exciting, cool season vintage Pinot Noir.
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I thought about making my own github fork for my own project. Or making a branch for each project "inside" of it.
Perhaps I do not really understand this social coding stuff yet -- but I am really feeling the allergy I have with "encapsulated" or "encapsulating" software frameworks and development environments.
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