confirmed On 25/09/14 02:50 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. > > In my last candidacy email[1], I talked about several things I wanted to > focus on in Swift. > > 1) Storage policies. This is done, and we're currently building on it to > implement erasure code storage in Swift. > > 2) Focus on performance and efficiency. This is an ongoing thing that is > never "done", but we have made improvements here, and there are some other > interesting things in-progress right now (like zero-copy data paths). > > 3) Better QA. We've added a third-party test cluster to the CI system, but > I'd like to improve this further, for example by adding our internal > integration tests (probe tests) to our QA pipeline. > > 4) Better community efficiency. Again, we've made some small improvements > here, but we have a ways to go yet. Our review backlog is large, and it takes > a while for patches to land. We need to continue to improve community > efficiency on these metrics. > > Overall, I want to ensure that Swift continues to provide a stable and robust > object storage engine. Focusing on the areas listed above will help us do > that. We'll continue to build functionality that allows applications to rely > on Swift to take over hard problems of storage so that apps can focus on > adding their value without worrying about storage. > > 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 > > [1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-March/031450.html > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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