svn commit: r1300279 - /incubator/tashi/board/2012-04.txt

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Author: stroucki
Date: Tue Mar 13 18:38:58 2012
New Revision: 1300279

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1300279&view=rev
Log:
another revision of April board report

Modified:
    incubator/tashi/board/2012-04.txt

Modified: incubator/tashi/board/2012-04.txt
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/tashi/board/2012-04.txt?rev=1300279&r1=1300278&r2=1300279&view=diff
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--- incubator/tashi/board/2012-04.txt (original)
+++ incubator/tashi/board/2012-04.txt Tue Mar 13 18:38:58 2012
@@ -13,24 +13,18 @@ using Xen and QEMU, but has been merged 
 physical aspects of a cluster like power control, network settings and 
 handing out physical machines.
 
-The project has received permission to make a release. This release was
-subsequently published via Apache and its mirrors.
+In the period from January to April, the project has received permission
+to publish a release. Shortly thereafter, a subsequent release was
+approved, incorporating several bug fixes detected during deployment
+of the first release and bug reports on Jira.
 
-Development activities have included:-
-        * Accounting server has been added to the codebase
-	* Primitive scheduler changes
-		* bug fixes
-		* Add support for user choice of dense packing or not
-		* Guard against starting more than one VM with
-		  persistent disk
-	* Client changes
-		* Add support for the shutdownMany command
-		* Provide better feedback in case of problems
-	* QEMU VMM changes
-		* bug fixes
-		  some timeout values
-	* Cluster manager changes
-		* bug fixes
+In the process of making our first release, contact to two of our three
+mentors was re-established. This resulted in reconnecting the developers
+to Jira, which was unusable due to insufficient privileges.
+
+Development efforts this period have mainly been in adding resilience
+to Tashi components, as well as returning more helpful messages in case
+of errors.
 
 The project is still working toward building a larger user and development 
 community. User groups have been identified in Ireland, Slovenia and Korea,
@@ -42,5 +36,6 @@ Items to be resolved before graduation:
 	  branch will work if running QEMU emulation, Pickle or sqlite
 	  data storage, primitive scheduler. Xen, other data stores and
 	  schedulers have not been tested recently.
-	* Develop community diversity (Committers currently at Telefonica,
-          Google and CMU) 
+	* Generate more publicity for the project.
+	* Develop members of the user community to submit feature
+	  extensions.