diff --git a/candidates/victoria/Neutron/skaplons@redhat.com b/candidates/victoria/Neutron/skaplons@redhat.com new file mode 100644 index 00000000..687f6240 --- /dev/null +++ b/candidates/victoria/Neutron/skaplons@redhat.com @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +I want to propose my candidacy for Neutron PTL in the Victoria cycle. + +I have been serving this great team as PTL in the Ussuri cycle already and I +would love to continue this in the next cycle as well. Ussuri was my first time +as PTL and I learned a lot during this cycle. I think that this new experience +and knowledge which I now have will help me serve as PTL in this next cycle as +well. + +In Ussuri I proposed a couple major goals which I wanted to focus on: + +* merge networking-ovn driver into main Neutron repository - in Ussuri we + actually merged networking-ovn code into neutron and made ovn driver as one of + the main in-tree drivers for ML2. We also merged the networking-ovn core team + into the neutron core team. + +* Improve overall stability of our CI - we are continuously working to improve + CI stability: during this cycle we added couple OVN related jobs to Neutron + CI, and we also removed some unnecessary jobs. Unfortunately we didn’t make + enough progress with our CI and some jobs still need a lot of work to improve + their stability. I think that this is a continuous effort and we will need + to focus on it in the next cycle as well. + +* Improve test coverage for existing features - we introduced many new test + cases in the neutron-tempest-plugin repository. Many of them are covering some + additional scenarios and advanced functionality: multicast traffic, TCP + and UDP port forwarding, and others. I think that this is a continuous + effort and we will need to focus on that one in the next cycle as well. + +* Finish the transition to the new engine facade - this is something which we + didn’t make enough progress so far and I would like to treat it as a priority + in Victoria. + +* Improve the stability of Neutron when it is running under uWSGI - recently we + promoted our uWSGI jobs to be voting. Those jobs are now pretty stable. + I think that in the next cycle we need to finally focus on making uwsgi as + the default in Devstack, so that it will be used in most Neutron CI job. + +In addition to that I wanted to continue Miguel’s way of mentoring potential +new core reviewers and contributors, and I think that this has been working +pretty fine. In addition to the networking-ovn core team which is now part of +neutron core, we also have new core reviewer Lajos Katona and new member of +drivers team: Nate Johnston. +Our team is now in good shape and we have many active core reviewers and +contributors. + +That’s my summary of what we actually achieved in the Ussuri cycle. Now let’s +talk about what are my goals for the Victoria cycle. + +* Continue adoption of the OVN driver in Neutron - now that the OVN is in-tree, + we need to think about making it the default in Devstack. + +* Finish adoption of new engine facade - it’s unfinished goal from the Ussuri + cycle and I think that we should treat it as a priority now, + +* Metadata over IPv6 - we still have not finished the RFE about support for + Metadata service in IPv6 only networks. In the Ussuri cycle we made some + progress with the spec [1], and we also had some discussions about it with + cloud-init developers. Now I think it’s time to finally get this spec merged + and implement it in Neutron, + +* Continue work on test coverage and CI stability - this is a never ending + story and I think that it should be treated with high priority all the time. + +It is my continuing desire to do my best to help our outstanding team to +deliver better software and to grow. + +[1] https://review.opendev.org/#/c/315604/