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+Hello everyone,
+
+I’m Sampath Priyankara. I would like to announce my candidacy to
+continue as PTL of Masakari for the Stein development cycle. In
+Rocky, we mainly focused on add new features such as Recovery method
+customization, Introspective Instance Monitoring, mutable
+configuration, and started work on Ansible support, masakari
+dashboard.
+
+For Stein, I would like to continue to focus on:
+- Ironic Bare Metal instance HA support
+- Masakari integration with Mistral
+- Complete OpenStack Ansible support for Masakari
+- Complete Masakari Dashboard (Horizon plugin for Masakari)
+- Continue to work with OpenStack HA team to develop OpenStack
+  resource agents as an alternative for masakari-monitors.
+
+ While working on above development, I think it is equally important
+to focus on raising awareness and adoption of Masakari, improve
+diversity of the team, and improve cross project/community
+communication and support. I will make my best effort to find more
+users, more reviewers and more developers for Masakari.
+
+Finally, I would like to thank you all Masakari contributors for your
+hard work over past cycles, and all OpenStack community members for
+your valuable comments, opportunities, and all the help you
+gave. Also, thank you for considering my candidacy.
+
+- Sampath Priyankara (samP)