I would like to run for election as Cinder PTL for the upcoming Icehouse release.
I've been involved with Openstack for more than 2 years, I've been an active and vocal member of the Cinder core team since cinder was formed and have contributed to variously to debates, reviews, designs and code. Before that I've been involved with high-performance compute clusters and networking both as a developer and from an ops prospective. I think Cinder is a strong and healthy project, and I'd like to continue to build on the great work John Griffith has been doing as PTL. We have at least 16 different back-ends supported, and have been very successful in allowing many levels of contribution and involvement. If elected, my main drives for the Icehouse release will be: - Cross project coordination - several features have suffered somewhat from the fact that coordination is needed between cinder and other projects, particularly nova and horizon. I'd like to work with the PTL and core team of those projects to see what we can do to better align expectations and synchronisation between projects, so that features like volume encryption, read-only volumes, ACLs etc. can be landed more smoothly - Deployment issues - several large companies now deploy code from trunk between releases, and perform regular rolling releases. I'd like to focus on what makes that difficult and what we can do in terms of reviews, testing and design to make that a smoother progress. This includes tying into OSLO and other projects that are working on this. Task-flow is a good example of a project that made significant useful progress by working with cinder as a first user before moving out to otehr projects. - Grow the cinder community, and encourage new contributes in form of testing and validation as well as new features. Generally keep the fantastic inclusive nature of the cinder project going, and encourage the healthy debates that have allowed us to come up with great solutions. - Blueprint management - Many blueprints are currently very thin indeed, often no more than a sentence or two. I'd like to see more push-back blueprints that do not provide a reasonable amount of detail before the code comes along, in order to allow discussion and debate earlier in the development cycle. There are many other sub-projects within cinder, such as driver validation, that I support and intend to do my best to see succeed. -- Duncan Thomas -- Duncan Thomas _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev