confirmed On 03/31/2014 05:11 PM, Zane Bitter wrote: > Greetings, fellow Heatists. My name is not Steve and I would like to > announce my candidacy for the position of Orchestration PTL. > > Most of you, I hope, already know me. I've been working on Heat > full-time essentially since the project started, and I've been a member > of the core team since before that was a thing. I'm pretty familiar with > both the Heat code and the strategic direction of the program. I've also > regularly filled in for past PTLs in various capacities (e.g. on the > Technical Committee, in project meetings, and chairing Heat team > meetings), so I feel as prepared as one could for being an OpenStack PTL > without actually having been one. > > Heat has always been a project where the core team members make > decisions by consensus, the PTL does *not* have the last word on any > decision, and the role is rotated through the core team. I'd like to > keep it that way. The term "Program Technical Lead" is a misnomer to me, > because we expect leadership from everyone in the team, and especially > the core team. (And, not incidentally, because the responsibilities of > the PTL are not primarily technical.) > > With the move to a directly-elected Technical Committee, I think it's > time to revisit the role of the PTLs in OpenStack, and understanding > that role from the inside will help me to give better input into that > process. So the main change I want to make to the project is to make > sure that the _next_ PTL has less work to do. > > PTLs exist primarily to ensure that the program remains accountable to > the wider OpenStack community, and I am happy to take on that > accountability because I have complete faith in the core team. > > If elected, it would be my intention to serve for only a single > development cycle, as previous Heat PTLs have done. I think that has > proven to be a successful model for building leadership depth, > maintaining team culture, avoiding burnout and maintaining long-term > productivity. I'd also like to encourage anyone thinking of running next > time to consider bringing forward their plans and stepping up now, > because choice is healthy :) > > Finally, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the Steves - Dake, > Hardy and Baker - for all their hard work in this role over the past > three release cycles. Great work guys! > > cheers, > Zane. > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > >
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