confirmed On 04/07/2015 05:35 AM, Flavio Percoco wrote: > Greetings, > > You read it right, you've not burned out yet - I probably will. Here's > a crazy idea, what if I run for 2 PTL positions on the projects I've > been putting my focus on lately? Hopefully, by sending this out now, > I'll be able to answer all your questions in time before the candidacy > period closes. > > Before you jump out of your chair, pull your hair off and start > asking: "Is that even possible?" Let me tell you that, as far as I can > tell by reading our governance repo[0], it seems to be entirely > "legal". If you think it is not, please do let me know. > > Now, to my candidacy. During the Juno development cycle, I had the > pleasure to be Zaqar's PTL. During this cycle, we managed to kick of > complete - at least in an experimental version - some exciting > features and we've also kicked off others - you can read more about > that here[1]. We did that with a small team of old and new > contributors, if it doesn't seem much to you, I'd love to invite you > to our team and help us out. :D > > That said, I think our most important goal during Juno was > incorporating the feedback we got from the community, after our last > incubation attempt, in a way that doesn't compromise the project's > goals but still brings in way more flexibility to the project. This > will allow for the community (Zaqar's and OpenStack's) to finally > adopt the project wherever it might be needed. > > Based on the above results and the fact that I believe the community > hasn't seen enough (anything) of Zaqar yet, I'd like to throw my hat > out there to be Zaqar's PTL for another cycle. Here are some things > that I'd like us to do during this cycle: > > 1. Spread the word and improve our interaction with the overall > community. We've spent lot of time heads down coding new features and > working out the best way to deliver this project. I believe it's time > to throw it out there and let it crash (if you know what I mean). > > 2. Restore/Improve our community activities by improving our > communications through the openstack mailing list, restoring our > weekly meetings and contributing back to other projects. > > 3. Keep improving our deployment story/tools. We've a draft of a > puppet manifest that we need to complete, we've devstack support but > we ought to bring it into our code base and extend it with other > features that have been developed. > > 4. Keep our amazing mentoring story alive by helping new mentees to > integrate with OpenStack, open source and obviously, Zaqar. Something > this team should be proud of is that it's mentored new contributors > since it was created. > > The above and more, I'd be honored to do together with the rest of the > team. > > Now, to the obvious natural question: How will I be the PTL of 2 > projects and get to the end of the cycle? > > Well, this definitely will require some changes from my side and my > current focus that you'll see happen if I have the honor to be elected > for both projects. Will I be burned out at the end of the cycle? > Probably, but that's a price I'm willing to pay for these 2 projects > and more importantly for OpenStack because I truly believe these > projects play (or will play in the case of Zaqar) and important role > in our ecosystem. > > In addition to the above, I must say that, thankfully enough, Zaqar is > still not such a time consuming project from a PTL perspective and > it's entirely feasible to be the PTL of these 2 projects and still do > a good job - last famous words. > > In all seriousness, I'd be honored to serve for both projects and I > hope you'll join me in this experiment. > > [0] > https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/charter.rst > > [1] > http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-April/060446.html > > Cheers, > Flavio > > -- > @flaper87 > Flavio Percoco > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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