Confirmed.
On 10/04/2013 01:28 PM, Zane Bitter wrote:
I would like to propose my candidacy for the OpenStack Technical
Committee.
I have been involved with OpenStack since we started the Heat project
in early 2012. I'm still a member of the Heat Core team and -
according to the semi-official statistics from Bitergia
(http://bitergia.com/public/reports/openstack/2013_04_grizzly/), at
least - among the more prolific patch contributors to OpenStack.
Over the last year I have often worked closely with the TC, beginning
with helping to shepherd Heat through the incubation process. That
process involved developing a consensus on the scope of the OpenStack
project as a whole, and new procedures and definitions for incubating
projects in OpenStack. These changes paved the way for projects like
Trove, Marconi and Savanna to be incubated. I hope and expect that
more projects will continue to follow in these footsteps.
I remain a reasonably frequent, if irregular, attendee at TC meetings
- occasionally as a proxy for the Heat PTL, but more often just
because I feel I can contribute. At this stage of its evolution, I
think the main responsibility of the TC is to grow the OpenStack
project in a responsible, sustainable way, so I take particular
interest in discussions around incubation and graduation of new
projects. Many new projects also have potential integration points
with Heat, so having folks from the Heat core team involved seems
valuable.
I also think that the TC could do more to communicate its inner
workings (which are public but, I suspect, not widely read). While
most decisions eventually come down to a vote and the results are
reported, the most important work of the committee is not in voting
but in building consensus. I believe the community would benefit from
more insight into that process, and to that end I have started
blogging about important decisions of the TC - not only the outcomes,
but the reasons behind them and the issues that were considered along
the way:
http://www.zerobanana.com/archive/2013/09/25#savanna-incubation
http://www.zerobanana.com/archive/2013/09/04#icehouse-incubation
http://www.zerobanana.com/archive/2013/08/07#non-relational-trove
These posts appear on Planet OpenStack and are regularly featured in
the Community Newsletter, so I like to think that this is helping to
bring the workings of the TC in front of an audience who might not
otherwise be aware of them.
If elected, I'd like to act as an informal point of contact for
projects that are already in incubation or are considering it, to help
explain the incubation process and the committee's expectations around
it.
I consider myself fortunate that my employer permits me to spend
substantially all of my time on OpenStack, and that my colleagues and
I have a clear mandate to do what we consider best for the _entire_
OpenStack community, because we know that we succeed only when
everyone succeeds.
cheers,
Zane.
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