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[Joshua Powers <josh.powers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi cloud-init community,

Six months have passed since the last cloud-init summit and I wanted to 
give a brief update on the project.

First, the transition to GitHub has brought a huge improvement in our 
process and ability to land community contributions. In addition to the 
review guidelines [1] the team has implemented an internal review 
rotation process. This will allow us to get eyes on reviews more quickly 
to ensure merges get closed out. The number of open reviews has 
decreased dramatically over the last couple of weeks as a result of this.

While we still require the CLA to be signed, we have worked to get a 
GitHub account field added to the Canonical CLA. This has greatly 
simplified the process. See the HACKING document [2] for more information.

Next, the team at Canonical is growing! We are closing in on hiring two 
additional developers for the team. While the developers will work on a 
couple projects the extra help on cloud-init will continue to aid in 
reviewing merge requests and delivering new features.

I expect we will release 20.2 in the coming months. For Ubuntu, we will 
SRU 20.1 shortly after Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) releases at the 
end of this month.

Finally, I want to thank everyone for hanging out in the #cloud-init IRC 
channel on Freenode. The discussions are becoming more and more lively 
and it is nice to see more community involvement. I would also like to 
have another cloud-init summit in August or September. While an 
in-person summit seems unlikely right now, we will consider having a 
virtual summit this year.

Thanks,
Josh

[1] https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/code_review.html
[2] https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/hacking.html
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Ubuntu Server Engineering Manager
Canonical Ltd.