confirmed On 24/09/14 04:37 PM, Swartzlander, Ben wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > >
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