[openstack-dev] [Searchlight] PTL candidacy

[McLellan, Steven]

Hi,

I am announcing my candidacy for election as Searchlight PTL. I've been a
leading contributor and core reviewer since Searchlight's inception as a
standalone project in Vancouver.

Under Travis' very capable guidance Searchlight has reached a 1.0 Newton
release which supports nearly all of the widely-used Openstack services and
makes it easy to add support for others. We've made great improvements to
the way that we index data both in terms of use by clients and in reliability
and performance.

My goals for Ocata are thus based more around incremental improvement than
large numbers of features:

- Increasing ease of use and exploring opportunities afforded to user
  interfaces by Searchlight's querying and aggregation capabilities.
- Continuing to work on improved coordination with other projects around
  notifications to make indexing more reliable.
- Making it easier for developers from other services to write plugins for
  their services for Searchlight to make use of their greater domain knowledge
  and increase community involvement; we've made some steps in this direction
  already with Ironic.
- Integrating architectural improvements to allow pluggable publishers for data
  received via notifications. This was a feature originally planned for Newton
  but that didn't make it in, and allows Searchlight's indexing process to feed
  destinations other than Elasticsearch (for instance, Zaqar).

Unfortunately I will likely not be at the summit in Barcelona, but if elected
will work closely with Travis as part of the hand-off to ensure we take care
of any requests or issues that come up during the summit.

Thanks!

Steve
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[openstack-dev] [searchlight] PTL Candidacy

[Tripp, Travis S]

Hello friends,

We are now going into our first official PTL election for Searchlight and I
would be honored if you’ll allow me to continue serving in the PTL role.

Searchlight became a new project in Liberty after being split out from its
initial experimental days in Glance. Since then we’ve been we’ve been moving
at a relatively fast pace towards fulfilling our mission: To provide advanced
and scalable indexing and search across multi-tenant cloud resources.

It would be a huge understatement to say that accomplishing this mission is
important to me. I believe that search is critical to enabling a better
experience for OpenStack users and operators alike.

In Liberty, we have made tremendous progress thanks to a small, but
passionate team who believes in the vision of Searchlight. At the Mitaka
summit we’ll be able to demonstrate a Horizon panel plugin able to search
across Glance, Nova, and Designate.

I believe that the PTL role is a commitment to the community to act as a
steward for the project. As PTL for an early stage project like searchlight,
I believe that some of these responsibilities are to:

* Evangelize the project across the OpenStack ecosystem
* Provide technical guidance and contribution
* Facilitate collaboration across the community
* Enable all developers to contribute effectively
* Grow a community of potential future project PTLs
* And perhaps most importantly, enable the project to release

I believe software must be developed with a clear demonstration of its
value. With Searchlight, I do believe that a UI is one of the most effective
ways to bring the value of Searchlight to OpenStack users. This is why
from day 1, I have been actively evangelizing Searchlight with Horizon. Once
users are able to actually take advantage of Searchlight, I believe
Searchlight will become a must have component of any OpenStack deployment.

From a feature standpoint, I believe all of the following are great
candidate goals for us to pursue in Mitaka and I look forward to working
with the community as establish priorities.

* (Obviously) Extend search indexing to as many projects as possible
** With a priority on the original integrated release projects
* Provide reference deployment architectures and deployment tooling as needed
* Establish performance testing
* Work towards cross-region search support
* Enable pre-defined quick queries for the most common searches
* Release the horizon search panel either in Horizon master or on its own
* Enable horizon top nav search to become a reality [0]

Thank you for your consideration in allowing me to continue serving as PTL
for the Mitaka cycle.

Thank you,
Travis

[0] https://invis.io/6Z3T72NXW
[1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/223805/
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