Big Plus 1 for Mark! Great PTL and Excellent Job in Neutron! Edgar
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Mark McClain <mark.mccl...@dreamhost.com>wrote: > > Hi- > > I writing to announce my candidacy for the OpenStack Networking (Neutron) > PTL. > > I am the current Neutron PTL. Our team continued to grow during the > Havana cycle and both existing and new contributors worked to deliver > double the number of blueprints than the previous release. Our vibrant > ecosystem makes me excited for the future of Neutron and I would love to > continue as the PTL. > > Qualifications > ------------------- > > I am a Neutron core developer with 13 years of commercial Python > development experience. During my career, I have developed and deployed > network applications based on the same underlying libraries used throughout > Neutron. I started contributing to Neutron project during the Essex > development cycle. In Folsom, I was promoted to core and was the primary > developer of the DHCP implementation and Neutron's network namespace > library. During Grizzly, I worked on the metadata service, database > migrations, and LBaaS reference implementation. > > Havana Accomplishments > ------------------------------------ > > During the Havana cycle, I worked as a developer, core team member, and a > technical lead. > > - Planned and implemented the Quantum to Neutron name change. > - Most active reviewer on the Neutron team ( > http://russellbryant.net/openstack-stats/neutron-reviewers-180.txt) > - Organized the Networking track at the Havana Design Summit. > - Led bug triaging and sub-team assignment. > - Interfaced with vendors new to Neutron and helped in the integration of > their plugins. > - Assisted members of the community to further their understanding of > Neutron and improve Python development best practices. > - Promoted Neutron by delivering presentations at conferences and regional > meet ups worldwide. > > > Icehouse > ------------- > > During the Icehouse development cycle, I'd like to see the team focus on: > > - Continuing to grow the community of contributors and code reviewers. > - Improving documentation for both deployers and developers. > - Build upon the services added in Havana to extend and improve load > balancing, firewalling, and VPN. > - Integrating plugins from vendors new to the community including FWaaS, > LBaaS, ML2, VPNaaS plugins/drivers. > - More efficient Neutron system testing and gating including full Tempest > testing. > - Further work to ease deploying at scale. > - Refactoring the API layer to leverage a common WSGI framework as other > OpenStack projects. > - Improving database resource modeling and extension management. > - Unified network service management framework. > - Continued support of the Horizon team to assist with Neutron integration. > - Defined migration path from nova-network to Quantum. > > I'd love the opportunity to continue as the PTL and work with the Neutron > team to fill in the gaps during the design summit in Hong Kong. > > Thanks, > mark > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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