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From: Rodolfo Alonso Hernandez <ralonsoh@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 10:31:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add Rodolfo Alonso candidacy for Neutron PTL (Bobcat/2023.2
 release)

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+Hello all:
+
+I would like to announce my candidacy for the role of PTL of Neutron for
+the Bobcat/2023.2 cycle.
+
+Let me introduce myself first. I started contributing to OpenStack in
+Liberty release (2015). I've contributed to several projects, mainly
+Neutron, neutron-lib, os-ken and os-vif, in addition to Nova and
+devstack. During the last two years I've been focused on the ML2/OVN
+integration, QoS and Placement related features and helping on the
+Neutron CI improvement and stabilization.
+
+For this new release, those are the main goals I would like to focus
+on:
+
+* Continue with the improvement of CI stability. This has been a very high
+  time consuming task for the Neutron community, but the improvements can
+  be seen in the number of rechecks and CI time used by Neutron. We must
+  continue with this effort during the next release.
+
+* Keep working on the smart NIC / hardware offload testing. This is
+  something I personally started during the last cycle but with little
+  success, but we should continue with this effort.
+
+* Keep working on the approved (or active) specs with active developments:
+** Metadata rate limit (LP#1989199)
+** Expose backend hints in the port API, hint ovs-tx-steering (LP#1990842)
+** ML2/OVN IPv6 Distributed routing (LP#1998609)
+** Active-active L3 Gateway with Multihoming (LP#2002687)
+** Configurable Security Group rules added by default to the new Security
+   Groups (LP#1983053)
+
+Apart from those main goals, we should always keep an eye on:
+
+* The SQLAlchemy 2.0 migration and any possible issue detected. During the
+  last two releases we found and solved several issues related to the
+  migration to SQLAlchemy 2.0. We need to keep watching for new possible
+  issues.
+
+* The Neutron's stadium ecosystem is alive and healthy: this is a
+  permanent goal in any release. The Neutron ecosystem is wide and diverse
+  and it is maintained with few resources. We should focus on those active
+  projects and communities that support their respective repositories.
+
+* Still closing (or surpassing) the ML2/OVS - ML2/OVN feature gap.
+
+* The spec tracking and review, in order to continue adding new
+  functionalities.
+
+
+Thank you in advance.
+
+Rodolfo Alonso Hernandez (ralonsoh, ralonsoh@redhat.com)