From e6be6844f04e6e0504ee940ea034e70ea761af1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Harlow Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 16:41:25 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Adding 'Joshua Harlow' candidacy for for 'oslo' Change-Id: Ic0b93b5a6be324bf362ceb051f6348c94bbe736e --- candidates/mitaka/Oslo/joshua_harlow.txt | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 61 insertions(+) create mode 100644 candidates/mitaka/Oslo/joshua_harlow.txt diff --git a/candidates/mitaka/Oslo/joshua_harlow.txt b/candidates/mitaka/Oslo/joshua_harlow.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a90e28ce --- /dev/null +++ b/candidates/mitaka/Oslo/joshua_harlow.txt @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +Howdy folks, + +I'd like to propose myself for oslo PTL for the mitaka cycle, + +For those that don't know me I've been involved in openstack for ~4 years, + +Have worked at yahoo! for ~7 years, ~4 of the last years have been getting openstack adopted in +yahoo! (where it is now used by everyone, and is a common word/name/project all employees know +about, quite a change from when 3 other engineers and myself started investigating it 4 years ago). +It has been quite the journey (for myself, others and yahoo! in general) and I've been pretty +active in oslo for ~2 years so I thought it might be a good time to try to run and see how I can +help in a PTL role (this also ensures nobody else in oslo-core burns out). + +I contribute to many projects (inside and outside of openstack): + +- http://stackalytics.com/report/users/harlowja + +Created/maintain/co-maintain/contributor/core to the following: + +(not directly openstack, generally useful to all) +- https://kazoo.readthedocs.org +- https://redis-py.readthedocs.org +- https://cloudinit.readthedocs.org +- https://fasteners.readthedocs.org +- https://pymemcache.readthedocs.org +- https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zake +- https://pypi.python.org/pypi/doc8 +- https://pypi.python.org/pypi/retrying +(mainly created for usage by openstack, but not limited to) +- https://anvil.readthedocs.org +- http://docs.openstack.org/developer/futurist/ +- http://docs.openstack.org/developer/automaton/ +- http://docs.openstack.org/developer/debtcollector/ +- http://docs.openstack.org/developer/taskflow/ +- http://docs.openstack.org/developer/tooz/ +(created for usage by openstack) +- oslo.messaging +- oslo.utils +- oslo.serialization +- oslo.service +- (all the other 'oslo.*' libraries) +(and more...) + +I feel I can help bring a unique viewpoint to oslo and openstack in general; one of increasing +exposure and general usefulness of oslo libraries outside of openstack; fostering community inside +and outside and continuing to make oslo and openstack the best it can be. + +Some of the things that I would like to focus on (not inclusive of all the things): + +- Increasing outreach to consuming projects so that they can benefit from the oslo libraries, code and +knowledge (and patterns) that have been built up by these libraries; perhaps some kind of bi-weekly blog +about oslo? +- Improving our outreach to others in the wider world (even ones not in the big tent); the python community +is a big world and it'd be great to make sure we do our part there as well. +- Being jolly. +- Asking the hard questions. + +Thanks for considering me, + +-Joshua Harlow +