LinuxCon North America/CloudOpen North America

OpenStack is a very active and very large development project. With more than one million lines of Python code, over 2,000 changes per month and more than 250 different contributors every month, how do we handle the incoming flow? How do we make sure this complex software stack works? How do we produce releases every 6 months like clockwork? How do we stay sane (or not)? In this talk we’ll present the development and release processes for OpenStack, look into the various methods and tools we use to stay on top of the flow, introduce our cloud-based testing and continuous integration systems, and reveal our release management tricks.

This talk should appeal to technical contributors from any project who want to learn more about open source project management at scale. No previous knowledge of OpenStack or technical expertise is required.