confirmed On 03/31/2014 08:01 PM, John Dickinson wrote: > I'm announcing my candidacy for Swift PTL. I've been involved with Swift > specifically and OpenStack in general since the beginning. I'd like to > continue to serve in the role as Swift PTL. > > Swift has grown quite a bit over the last 4 years. In this past year, we've > added major new features refactored significant areas of the code to improve > efficiency and extensibility. We've added support for global clusters. We've > significantly refactored replication to be more efficient. We've cleaned up > the volume interface to make it much simpler to extend. Swift is a great > storage engine, powering some of the world's largest storage clouds. Let's > keep making it better. > > Going forward, I'd like to address four things in Swift in the next year: > > 1) Finish storage policies, including erasure code support. In my opinion, > this is the biggest feature in Swift since it was open-sourced, and I'm > really excited by the opportunities it enables. I sent an email earlier this > month about our current plan on getting storage policies finished up: > http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-March/030937.html > > 2) Focus on performance and efficiency rather than on a "feature train". > We've started on several things here, including the "ssync" replication > improvements and some profiling middleware. I'd also like to see improvement > in replication bandwidth efficiency (especially with global clusters), > time-to-first-byte latency improvement, better support of very dense storage, > and support higher concurrency with less resources. > > 3) Better QA. Swift has always been a very stable system. We need to ensure > that it remains stable, especially as new feature go in and other parts of > the codebase change. Examples here include better functional test coverage, > testing against real clusters, more end-to-end testing of workflows, running > probetests automatically against submitted changes, and tracking performance > metrics against patches. > > 4) Better community efficiency. As the community has grown, we need to get > better at offering feedback channels from production deployments, especially > from non-developers. We need to get better at reducing the patch review time > and encouraging newer developers to jump in and offer patches. > > These are the things that I want to focus on as PTL in the next 6 to 12 > months. My vision for Swift is that everyone will use it every day, even if > they don't realize it. Together we can make it happen. > > --John > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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