This document provides instructions for creating several accounts needed to contribute code to OpenStack: 1. Create a Launchpad account to manage OpenStack contributions. 2. Apply for membership in the OpenStack Foundation. 3. Create an account on review.openstack.org and agree to the Individual Contributor License Agreement (ICLA) to gain access to Gerrit for code reviews.

1. OpenStack
Development
Account
Creation
Lab
Guide
Cisco
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2015

2. Account
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Overall
Objectives
Several
accounts
and
agreements
must
be
in
place
to
contribute
code
to
OpenStack.
This
lab
will
guide
through
creation
of
these
accounts
and
acceptance
of
these
agreements.
1. Launchpad
account
2. OpenStack
Foundation
membership
3. review.openstack.org
account
and
acceptance
of
ICLA

3. Account
Creation
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Launchpad
Go
to
login.launchpad.net:
Select
“I
am
a
new
Ubuntu
One
user”
and
fill
out
your
email
address,
your
name
and
specify
a
password
twice.
Then
agree
to
the
terms
of
service
and
click
“Create
account”

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Click
to
“verify
your
email
address”

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Check
the
email
account
you
listed
as
your
email
address
for
a
confirmation
code,
then
enter
it
on
the
validation
screen
and
click
“Continue”.

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Then
click
“Yes,
I’m
sure”
on
the
confirmation
screen

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Then
click
“Save
changes”
on
the
results
screen

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OpenStack
Foundation
Go
to
https://www.openstack.org/join/
.
Click
“Foundation
Member”

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Fill
out
the
application
(all
fields
are
required,
including
the
affiliation),
then
click
“Submit
My
Application”

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A
confirmation
form
will
be
displayed
with
your
newly
created
account

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review.openstack.org
and
ICLA
Go
to
https://review.openstack.org/
and
click
‘Sign
in’
in
the
upper
right

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It
should
redirect
to
Launchpad,
and
will
likely
be
pre-­‐populated
with
the
launcpad
account
created
earlier

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Click
“Yes,
log
me
in”
which
will
bring
up
a
gerrit
account
creation
screen.
Enter
a
username
in
the
Username
box.
It’s
helpful
(but
not
a
hard
requirement)
to
make
this
the
same
as
your
login
account
name
on
your
workstation.
Then
click
“Select
Username”

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Then,
add
your
SSH
public
key.
If
you
don’t
have
one
you
can
generate
one
by
running
ssh-­‐
keygen
on
your
Ubuntu
VM.
Then
paste
the
SSH
public
key
(typically
the
contents
of
~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
on
your
Ubuntu
VM)
into
the
“Add
SSH
Public
Key”
box
and
click
“Add”

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Next
click
“New
Contributor
Agreement”
at
the
bottom

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Select
which
contributor
agreement
you
will
complete.
For
most
users
this
is
the
ICLA
On
the
agreement
page,
fill
out
all
fields
and
then
click
“Submit
Agreement”

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It
should
then
show
a
“Verified”
Status

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