Hi, I'd like to announce my candidacy for re-election to the TC.
About Me ======== I am the PTL for the OpenStack Infrastructure Program, which I have been helping to build for nearly four years. I have also served on the TC since the Icehouse cycle. I am responsible for a significant portion of our project infrastructure and developer workflow including setting up gerrit and helping to write git-review. All of that is to say that I've given a lot of thought and action to helping scale OpenStack to the number of projects and developers it has today. I also wrote zuul, nodepool, and devstack-gate to make sure that we are able to test that the different componensts of OpenStack work together as a cohesive whole. A good deal of my technical work is focused on achieving that and ensuring that all of the projects that make up OpenStack have the ability to test themselves in such a complex system. Throughout my time working on OpenStack I have always put the needs of the whole project first, above those of any individual contributor, organization, or program. I also believe in the values we have established as a project: open source, design, development, and community. To that end, I have worked hard to ensure that the project infrastructure is run just like an OpenStack project, using the same tools and processes, and I think we've succeeding in creating one of the most open operational project infrastructures ever. My Platform =========== I am very excited about the big tent. The infrastructure team has been involved in operating stackforge for some time, and so the big tent idea seems like a natural progression to me. We have a lot of folks who are participating in our community and it is time that we accept them in. At the same time we can strengthen the core of our project by acknowledging that there are a lot of components that can be a part of OpenStack, but not all of them need to be deployed in every installation. And so the layered approach helps us make sense of how a system should be constructed. As part of the move into the big tent, all of the cross-project efforts will need to change the way they operate to accomodate the scale we are dealing with. Most of that work is well underway, but the TC itself will need to change as well. Just as any other horizontal effort, the TC will need to provide the tools and processes for projects to be effective members of our community on their own. Part of the motivation for adopting the big tent strategy is to get the TC out of the business of doing detailed review of projects so that it can provide technical leadership for OpenStack as a whole. I believe we have made a great start on the work that is needed to build the big tent. There is still more work that needs to be done, I would like to continue to help the TC evolve into its new role and so I would appreciate your vote. Thanks for your consideration, Jim __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev