confirmed On 04/22/2015 09:32 PM, Michael Krotscheck wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I'd like to announce my own candidacy for the OpenStack Technical > Committee. My TL/DR platform is: "Represent Front-End Engineering". It's > what I do, it's what I love, it's what I've been doing for the last 15 > years, and it's what I want to keep doing for years to come. > > Would you like some details? Of course you would! > > *First: Represent Front-End Engineering on the TC.* > > To me, this means being an advocate to everyone who touches the things > which people use to interact with OpenStack; CLI, Web UI, etc. From the > engineers working on upstream projects such as Fuel, Refstack, Ironic-UI, > Horizon, and StoryBoard, to the UI Developers downstream who are developing > their own tools, I strongly feel this branch of our profession should be > represented, and I would like to be that representative. > > *Second: Advocate ease-of-use across OpenStack.* > > I don't only mean pretty buttons - I also mean how easy the CLI clients > are, how intuitive the API's are, and how easy it is to onboard and/or > support your own engineering efforts. You can have all the feature support > in the world, but if it's not easy to use, you're doomed out of the gate. > > *Third: Make JavaScript a first-class citizen.* > > Yep, _this_ can of worms! Between the projects mentioned above, it's pretty > clear that JavaScript is here to stay. With that in mind there remain many > problems with the tooling, and we need to be conscious of those > shortcomings as we start to draft policies that support the needs of all > stakeholders: OpenStack's components, Engineers both downstream and > upstream, Package Maintainers, and most importantly Operators and their > Customers. > > *My qualifications:* > > I've been active in the OpenStack community for about 18 months now, > working on Monty Taylor's team here at HP on trying to get StoryBoard to > the point where it can replace Launchpad. I'm more-or-less responsible for > all things NodeJS, NPM, Selenium, and Browser on infra, basically > everything you need to build and test a Web UI. I've recently landed > supporting technologies (such as CORS) that will greatly assist in > unleashing downstream UI developers post-liberty, and am trying to teach > Infra how to publish javascript libraries much like it does for python. > Also, I've got 15 years of experience as a UI engineer, and a scant year of > experience as a UX researcher. > > Michael Krotscheck > > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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