Hello! I have been the de-facto PTL for Manila from the conception of the project up to now. Since Manila is an officially incubated OpenStack program, I have the opportunity to run for election and hopefully become the officially elected PTL for the Manila project.
I'm running because I feel that the vision of the Manila project is still not achieved, even though we've made tremendous strides in the last year, and I want to see the project mature and become part of core OpenStack. Some of you may remember the roots of the Manila project, when we proposed shared file system management as an extension to the then-nascent Cinder project during the Folsom release. It's taken a lot of attempts and failures to arrive at the current Manila project, and it's been an exciting and humbling journey, where along the way I've had the opportunity to work with many great individuals. My vision for the future of the Manila includes: * Getting more integrated with the rest of OpenStack. We have Devstack, Tempest, and Horizon integration, and I'd like to get that code into the right places where it can be maintained. We also need to add Heat integration, and more complete documentation. * Working with distributions on issues related to packaging and installation to make Manila as easy to use as possible. This includes work with Chef and Puppet. * Making Manila usable in more environments. Manila's design center has been large-scale public clouds, but we haven't spent enough time on small/medium scale environments -- the kind the developers typically have and the kind that users typically start out with. * Taking good ideas from the rest of OpenStack. We're a small team and we can't do everything ourselves. The OpenStack ecosystem is full of excellent technology and I want to make sure we take the best ideas and apply them to Manila. In particular, there are some features I'd like to copy from the Cinder project. * A focus on quality. I want to make sure we keep test coverage high as we add new features, and increase test coverage on existing features. I also want to try to start vendor CI similar to what Cinder has. * Lastly, I expect to work with vendors to get more drivers contributed to expand Manila's hardware support. I am very interested in smoothing out some of the networking complexities that make it difficult to write drivers today. I hope you will support my candidacy so I can continue to lead Manila towards eventual integration with OpenStack and realize my dream of shared file system management in the cloud. Thank you, Ben Swartzlander Manila PTL, NetApp Architect _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev