+1 Duncan has always been helpful and insightful as well as seeming keen to maintain good standards within the project and while the competition is strong I am happy to support Duncan's candidacy.
On 26/09/13 16:44, Duncan Thomas wrote: > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
