Thanks, Nikhil, for offering to take on this responsibility. I know you've had a lot of experience with Glance in the past and I feel comfortable knowing that you'll be around to keep the project moving forwards!
Cheers! On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Nikhil Komawar < nikhil.koma...@rackspace.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to take this opportunity and announce my candidacy for the > role of Glance PTL. > > I have been part of this program since Folsom release and have had > opportunity > to work with an awesome team. There have been really challenging changes in > the way Glance works and it has been a pleasure to contribute my reviews > and code to many of those changes. > > With the change in mission statement [1], that now provides a direction > for other services to upload and discover data assets using Glance, it > would be my focus to enable new features like 'Artifacts' to merge smoothly > into master. This is a paradigm change in the way Glance is consumed and > would be my priority to see this through. In addition, Glance is supporting a > few new features like async workers and metadef, as of Juno that could be > improved in terms of bugs and their maintainability. Seeing this through > would be my next priority. > > In addition to these, there are a few other challenges which Glance > project faces - review/feedback time, triaging ever growing bug list, BP > 'validation and followup' etc. I have some ideas to develop more momentum > in each of these processes. With the advent of the Artifacts feature, new > developers would be contributing to Glance. I would like to encourage and > work with them become core members sooner than later. Also, there are many > merge propositions which become stale due to lack of reviews from > core-reviewers. My plan is to have bi-weekly sync-ups with the core and > driver members to keep the review cycle active. As a good learning lesson > from Juno, I would like to work closely with all the developers and > involved core reviewers to know their sincere intent of accomplishing a > feature within the scope of release timeline. There are some really > talented people involved in Glance and I would like to keep synthesizing > the ecosystem to enable everyone involved to do their best. > > Lastly, my salutations to Mark. He has provided great direction and > leadership to this project. I would like to keep his strategy of rotation > of weekly meeting times to accommodate the convenience of people from > various time zones. > > Thanks for reading and I hope you will support my candidacy! > > [1] > https://github.com/openstack/governance/blob/master/reference/programs.yaml#L26 > > -Nikhil Komawar > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > >
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