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Watcher PTG Etherpad Overview The 2025.2 PTG was the Second PTG i have attended for watcher. The last PTG had one session to cover all the technical debt required to revive the project. This time we extended the ptg to 2 days. Day 1 Tech Debt Croniter The PTG started with a disscussion about technical debt that emerged during the epxoy cycle. This focused mainly on croniter, which is used by watcher to schedule continuous audits based on cron strings. The Croniter libaray maintainer has decided to stop maintaining this library and it is transitioning to a new maintainer. While that gives watcher some breathing space, our usage is minimal, so we agreed to drop the dependency by leveraging the existing functionality of apscheduler. ...

What Is OpenStack? For those of you who have not heard of “OpenStack” or the OpenStack Foundation, you might be wondering what it is. Wiki defines it as an a free and open-source software platform for cloud computing, mostly deployed as an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). While that is true, it is incomplete and unless you know what infrastructure as a service is it’s not very helpful.Granted the wiki page does actually explain what OpenStack and what OpenStack does but ill have a go anyway. So OpenStack as software, is a collection of composable interrelated projects primarily written in python, for creating private and public clouds environments. ...