Nova release notes and blueprints

To navigate between various systems and versions in Openstack you need understand the concept of blueprints and how they link to the source code.

For every project that is developed under the umbrella of Openstack there is a list of features people are working on. We call them blueprints and they are tracked in a written form on launchpad.

Release notes and blueprints for Openstack Nova project

All Nova blueprints.

Blueprints sorted by the Nova release.

Essex: Release Note, Blueprints
Folsom: Release Note, Blueprints
Grizzly: Release Note, Blueprints

Searching and matching

This isn't a simple task when you want to track down in reverse order what was implemented.
One way of doing this is to search for the blueprint on the blueprint list or in the release note and then browse through the Gerrit code reviews.

In the example below you can see the blueprint name and a link (see the yellow text). Unfortunately the name used in Gerrit and the links are not always pointing directly to each other.

The Project and branch (red color) are not links to the code with the changes but rather indication of the name for project and branch at the time this review was going on.

If you want to download or checkout the code to play with it or test you need to scroll down the the 'Download' section. Alternatively you can see the diff and changes in browser.

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/3035/

Change Iceb27609: blueprint host-aggregates

Change-Id: Iceb27609dc53bf4305c02d7cbc436fba4c4a7256 Owner Armando Migliaccio Project openstack/nova Branch master Topic bp/host-aggregates Uploaded Jan 13, 2012 5:05 PM Updated Jan 17, 2012 9:37 PM Status Merged Permalink

blueprint host-aggregates This is the first of a series of commits that add the host-aggregates capability, as described on the blueprint page. This commit, more precisely, introduces changes to the Nova model: model classes related to aggregates have been added, as well as DB API methods to interact with the model; a sqlalchemy migration script plus a bunch of tests are also part of this changeset. Commits that will follow are going to add: - Extensions to OSAPI Admin, and related python_novaclient mappings - Implementation of the XenAPI virt layer - Integration of OSAPI and virt layer, via the compute_api - smoketests - openstack-manuals documentation These commits will be pushed for review not necessarily in this exact order. Change-Id: Iceb27609dc53bf4305c02d7cbc436fba4c4a7256

Example 'Download' section.

Download

checkoutpullcherry-pickpatch Anonymous HTTP git fetch https://review.openstack.org/openstack/nova refs/changes/35/3035/8 && git checkout FETCH_HEAD