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+Hello Nova (and Placement) fellows,
+
+That's been some time I started to work on OpenStack and Nova in particular
+(I leave you guessing it [1]) but I feel this is time for me to run for the
+Nova PTL election and ask you to accept me for this hot seat (which is not a
+Yoga mat).
+
+First and foremost, I'd like to thank gibi for the hard work he did on the
+previous cycles, especially during this (hopefully) transient situation we
+currently face which challenges us in terms of teamwork. Running our team
+gatherings virtually twice is awfully exhausting and I also thank you all
+for supporting this situation. Hopefully our next PTG will be the last virtual
+one but who knows.
+
+I personally feel Nova now entered a period of quiet but productive pace. We
+accepted a solid amount of blueprints over the past cycles but we also
+delivered a decent ratio of them. That said, many challenges occur as of now
+which as a PTL I have the intention to continue to stress on and engage
+discussions between us how to solve them :
+
+ - CI stability : We recently faced a couple of bugs that prevented us to merge
+   code and I have the feeling that some of them are intertwined. I'd like us
+   to identify all the stressing bits so we could prioritize any kind of tech
+   debt fix that would help to gain better stability and not treat them as
+   just standard bugs that we only look after our feature delivery duties.
+
+ - Upgrades : I'm very happy to say we solved the long-running problem of
+   version-to-next upgrades which are now painless. We have a couple of tools
+   for helping operators to gain confidence before upgrades and we also have CI
+   jobs that prove their stability. That said, I personally feel we now have
+   another dimension of upgrades we barely scratched to define and I would like
+   us to think about them. Placement reshapes and fast-forward-upgrades are for
+   example two new features that Nova supports but I'd like us to take a second
+   and identify all the improvements we could make for those (and prioritize
+   efforts accordingly)
+
+ - Contributors diversity : I don't think there is any surprise if I say that
+   our Nova community is smaller than before. I don't think it's a problem and
+   as I already said, we're productive. No, the concern that I have is that I'd
+   love to have a way to help contributors that are maybe not having time to
+   develop on Nova as a primary day-to-day job. We started to discuss on ways
+   to define review priorities and I would like to pursue this direction by
+   wondering what and how we could do for those contributors.
+
+
+Either way, I truly respect the ideal of Open Design. Whatever Nova becomes or
+evolves in the future, every single contributor is part of it and my role will
+be to make sure we have a consensus.
+
+Thanks,
+-Sylvain
+
+[1] 0x7DD