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On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 2:53 PM, John Dickinson <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm announcing my candidacy for OpenStack Swift PTL for the Liberty cycle. > > Swift was originally written to provide large-scale, multi-user, > highly-available, durable object storage. Why do we need that? Because the > way people produce and consume data is changing, and, therefore, the > requirements that applications put on storage infrastructure is also changing. > > When Swift was released way back in the Austin release of OpenStack (5 years > ago!), it already met these goals. And during the last 5 years, we've seen > that base functionality improve and important new functionality added. In the > last two years alone, we've added global cluster support, storage policies, > and we're just now finishing up erasure code support. These kind of things > are crucial for enabling Swift to be the storage system used for all > unstructured data. > > As I've said many times before, my vision for Swift is that everyone, > everywhere will use it every day, even if they don't realize it. We're well > on our way there, with Swift being used today from everything from backups, > to games, CDNs, financial institutions, websites, mobile apps, and beyond. > > During the next six months (the OpenStack Liberty cycle), we've got some > important work to do. We'll be finishing up the erasure code work, we're > working on on-disk encryption, and we've got a lot of work to do to improve > existing areas of the code. For example, I'd like to see improvements in > object server and replication performance, and I'd like to see fruit come > from the ongoing discussions about large container support. These sorts of > things are important to ensure Swift's success for the next five years of > it's life. > > Longer term (beyond the Liberty cycle), there are some other things I think > are pretty important. First, and this is one of the more exciting things > going on in Swift right now, many different media vendors are coming to the > Swift community asking how they can ensure that Swift natively supports their > media. There's a company that has written a tape library connector for Swift > and is open-sourcing it. Hard drive vendors are developing new technology > (like SMR drives) and new protocols (like Kinetic), and Swift needs to work > with these natively. And on the flash side, I want to see Swift directly > support the nuances of flash so that we can be well-positioned for any use > case that people need. > > In addition to native media support, I want to ensure that we are supportive > of the application developers who are using Swift. This means encouraging and > promoting work on SDKs and ensuring that application developers use Swift as > their first choice for cloud storage. > > An important part of the PTL role is supporting the developer community. As > PTL I want to continue working on making sure the tools we have as a > community are the best for the job we need to do--the best ways to track > what's going on, coordinate with each other, and get stuff done. > > It's been a privilege to work with the incredible Swift contributors, and I'm > proud to be a part of Swift. I'd be honored to continue as your OpenStack > Swift PTL. > > Thank you, > > > John > > > > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > -- Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2 __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
