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+I'd like to nominate myself to serve as the Trove PTL for 2025.1 cycle.
+
+I have been PTL for the last several cycles, and would like the
+opportunity continue to lead the team.
+
+In the comming cycle, I will focus on the postgres's datastore and improve
+the tempest tests for postgres datastore.