Shipping the Zoe maintenance release with 123 tickets closed, including host alias changes, AIX cron support, and SELinux upper case contexts

A photobooth portrait from the Photobooth Project where, for once, I do not look like shit in the picture

Drawing parallels between manufacturing production lines and IT operations, and introducing Toyota Production System concepts like lean, JIT, and Kanban

Asking the community to hammer on release candidate 3 with a few more bugs squashed, with a production release expected within days

Calling for testing on the second release candidate after a missing commit forced a quick respin from RC1, with 118 tickets resolved

Applying Behaviour Driven Development to infrastructure monitoring using Cucumber and Cucumber-Nagios to test that services actually do what users expect

Posting release notes for the zoot maintenance release with clarified require behaviour, regex node matching fixes, and dozens of bug fixes