This is an announcement of my standing for PTL of the Cinder project. I've been an active member of the Cinder core team from day one, and I've had the pleasure of working closely with John Griffith, the incumbent PTL, and a large and varied collection of contributors for that period.
My job is running block storage in HP's public cloud, as well as working on our private cloud offering. This has give me a strong emphasis on the day to day operational aspects of running Cinder at scale, backward compatibility and the challenges of continuous deployment of head-of-tree code in production. I think Cinder is a project reaching technical maturity; it has a strong team behind it, both core and non-core. We work well together, and I see the main role of the PTL not as making decisions but in enabling this community to progress as smoothly as possible. I've had a great deal of success in driving forward the 3rd party CI requirements, working with the infra team to work out process and where necessary giving engineers the tools and leverage they need to overcome roadblocks within their own companies. I feel that some gentle shepherding in terms of review focus can help us increase our velocity without disrupting the very successful way of working we currently have. The hugely successful mid-cycle meetup set the main goal of the Kilo cycle as stability and paying down technical debt, and there are a number of pieces of work started by myself and others that should produce significant dividends in that area - state machine, cinder agent, decoupling of drivers and connector types. I have always encouraged anybody to reach out to me with questions and concerns, and continue to do so. I look forward to continuing the great work we've been doing. Regards -- Duncan Thomas Cinder Core, and HP Cloud _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
