Time: 15:30 UTC/GMT, 10:30 EST

Date & time: Wed February 18, 10:30am Eastern US/15:30 UTC

The sprint 20 report is today at 7:30 PDT/10:30 EDT/14:30 GMT at the usual bluejeans.com location. Today’s topics include updates on the following:

I sat down with Chris Hample and Chris Kacerguis from Booz Allen Hamilton to discuss their newest release of the Jellyfish Cloud Broker, which is at version 2 as of this writing.

Every three weeks, we discuss our sprint reports, and you can participate in this process, as well as take a look at our handiwork with a compiled image from this sprint.

As we get ever closer to the Botvinnik release, we turn our eyes to the next release cycle. In keeping with our nomenclature of using chess grandmasters and world champions as release names, we have a couple of candidates for the next cycle. Read about Viswanathan Anand and Mikhail Botvinnik to see whom we chose for the “A” and “B” releases, respectively.

We’re pleased to announce that, effective now, the first Botvinnik release candidate is now available. Among the improvements in this release:

That was fast! We found some problems with the first release candidate and have created another for your enjoyment. Download now and tell us what you think at talk.manageiq.org.

We’ve turned on one more web app to round out the manageiq.org experience: the Planet ManageIQ blog aggregator. For now, we syndicate the following blogs:

I’m pleased to announce that the ManageIQ project will have a big showing at the upcoming OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, British Columbia. Here are the activities we have on tap:

If you’ve been participating in our sprint reports, you’ve no doubt found them to be an excellent way to stay apprised of feature progress in ManageIQ. I’m happy to announce that our community activities are now part of the 3-week sprints and included in the sprint reports.

As I mentioned in a previous blog post, we are having a day to ourselves on Wednesday, May 20 at the upcoming OpenStack Summit in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia.

The next Botvinnik release candidate, RC3, is now ready for download. Either use the site’s download workflow or pick what you want from the list of available images. Report issues in this thread and link to the GitHub issue URL.

If you’ve been visiting Planet ManageIQ recently, you know we’ve made some additions:

Every three weeks, we discuss our sprint reports, and you can participate in this process, as well as take a look at our handiwork with a compiled image from this sprint.

Every three weeks, we discuss our sprint reports, and you can participate in this process.

RSVP for the Botvinnik webinar!

If you run git pull on your ManageIQ appliance to pull down updates, restart and find that you can’t login in the web UI as the buttons are unresponsive, it’s likely you’re running in production mode, some assets were added or changed and haven’t been precompiled.

This is a quick reminder that the All About Botvinnik webinar starts at 8am PDT/11am EDT/15:00 UTC today (June 9). You can attend the webinar through our bluejeans.com link.

The fourth release candidate for Botvinnik is now available. Download from manageiq.org. This is (hopefully) the final release candidate before going GA later this week. Stand by! If you have issues, please report them at GitHub.

I’m happy to report that we will be having a birds-of-a-feather meetup (aka “BoF”) at Red Hat Summit on Thursday, June 25 at 4pm EDT. A BoF is an informal gathering of people who come together to discuss a particular topic, in this case ManageIQ. We would like to use this opportunity to share some of the community highlights from the previous year, as well as discuss the upcoming roadmap and Capablanca release cycle.

We’re very happy to announce that ManageIQ Botvinnik is now generally available. This marks the first full release cycle for ManageIQ as an open source project. As mentioned in previous announcements, we name our releases alphabetically after chess world champions. For the “B” release, we selected Mikhail Botvinnik, a Soviet chess champion from the 1950’s. The “C” release cycle is named after Jose Raul Capablanca, a Cuban world chess champion from 1921-1927.

Next week (June 23 - June 26) is Red Hat Summit, and we have quite the agenda put together for ManageIQ and CloudForms users.

Reminder that the ManageIQ BoF at Red Hat Summit is today - Thursday, June 25.

OpenStack Management with CloudForms

Found a really great blog post, all about deploying ManageIQ within a VSphere environment written by Jason Gaudreau:

As ManageIQ progresses toward its next milestone release, the development team is pleased to announce the availability of the alpha release of Capablanca.

The ManageIQ development team is pleased to announce the availability of the Beta release of Capablanca.

We’re pleased to announce that the first Capablanca release candidate is now available. Among the improvements in this release since the Beta:

We’ve just wrapped up Capablanca RC2. As the release cycle draws to a close, this release contains bug fixes, numerous UI tweaks, and a couple of last-minute changes to the new Azure provider.

ManageIQ Capablanca is now available from all good download links!