confirmed On 23/09/14 10:19 AM, Duncan Thomas wrote: > 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 >
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