Board meeting on 17 Jan 2018; report to be submitted by 10 Jan
A cloud agnostic library that enables developers to access a variety of cloud providers using one API.
== Project Status ==
We have finally been able to work on adding support for OpenStack Keystone v3, a long-standing issue that prevents us from supporting modern OpenStack versions. We are actively testing and expect to be able to cut a new release in the short term, which will be a significant step as this is one of the features most eagerly awaited by the community.
Separately, the Azure ARM provider has reached a sufficient level of completeness and stability for promotion out of the "labs" in the next release. We have seen continuous contributions to this provider as well as help in testing, and are happy to see that it is one of the providers getting more attention recently.
The OpenStack Neutron API has also proven to be very stable, and we intend to work on promoting it out of "labs" too.
Progress continues on expanding the BlobStore portable interface which now includes storage tiers.
== Community ==
We have started to use the #jclouds slack channel and are promoting it on the mailing list and website as an alternative to IRC. Several contributors have already joined the channel, which has lead to productive chats about implementation details, source code internals, etc. It seems that Slack is more user-friendly than IRC, and it is easier to engage users there, so we will continue to promote and use this channel.
One user has Aliyun OSS support in a private branch and we have asked them to share this code for possible mainline inclusion.
The project continues to receive contributions in the form of code and issues from new developers, indicating that development is healthy and that users are feeding back their problems and feature suggestions.
There are currently 12 PMC members and 24 committers.
Last committer: 2017-02-17 (Svetoslav Neykov)
Last PMC member: 2016-10-21 (Andrea Turli)
== Community Objectives ==
- Release jclouds 2.1.0 soon, as it contains long-awaited features, especially around the OpenStack and Azure ARM providers
- Continue to monitor our community for potential new committers and PMC members
== Releases ==
The last jclouds release, 2.0.3, took place on 2017-11-30.