From 5ad010c33ed590c5a28dc3aa9add2fe3b20a1a5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Garbutt Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 18:55:59 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Adding John Garbutt (johnthetubaguy) candidacy for TC Change-Id: I6728ff25ac6b2eb65650ac546e4f706d0a9dae8a --- candidates/pike/TC/johnthetubaguy.txt | 82 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 82 insertions(+) create mode 100644 candidates/pike/TC/johnthetubaguy.txt diff --git a/candidates/pike/TC/johnthetubaguy.txt b/candidates/pike/TC/johnthetubaguy.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..eabd4fa3 --- /dev/null +++ b/candidates/pike/TC/johnthetubaguy.txt @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ +Hi Everyone, + +I'd like to submit my candidacy for second term on the OpenStack Technical +Committee. I have been proud to serve the community over this last year. + + +Getting stuff done +------------------ + +I have lots of hope for the new TC vision. I believe it will bring a renewed +sense of urgency and unity in what we as a community need to work on: + +* https://review.openstack.org/453262 + +I look forward to the discussion with the whole community on the proposed +vision, and look forward to working towards turning that vision into +reality. In particular, I think we are getting closer to building consensus +around the question of "What is OpenStack?" + + +A Diverse Global Community +-------------------------- + +I plan not to attend the TC's IRC meetings, at least not at a time ouside +my normal working hours. + +The last year it has been a struggle to attend the 8pm/9pm meeting. I know +many people make bigger sacrifices to regularly attend IRC meetings, but that +should not be normal or acceptable. We need to learn new ways of interacting +that don't require such sacrifices. In a similar way, I believe that people +that don't work full time on OpenStack should still be able to play an active +role in the technical leadership of OpenStack. + +I am proud to be part of a diverse global community. We need to keep working +hard to keep it that way. I hope to help with that. + + +Feedback loops +-------------- + +While speaking to some HPC users in Cambridge recently, we were complimented +on how welcoming the OpenStack community is to users and operators. In +particular, how much better things are now compared to two/three years ago. +I am keen we continue to build on this progress. + +I am working on ways the operator and user communities become more actively +involved in development process. The VM and baremetal working group is a +attempt to try a concept a constellation of projects work together (rather +than individual projects working in isolation) gather feedback from users, +develop proposals on how to fix problems together, and set priorities on what +are the most important things to fix. Seems worth a try. + +I am keen to get specific representatives from the operator and user community +to volunteer to work closely with the development teams on particular features +that interest them. This relationship can help build bridges between the +respective communities, helping keep both communities up to speed on how things +are progressing. I have seen this close collaboration work for some features +in Nova, but I would like to see us make better use of it for wider reaching +problems that affect multiple projects. + +I also believe we need to be clearer about how are users are and which ones +we are in touch with regularly. Some projects actually have users within our +community, but we don't regularly interact. For example, Trove, Heat and +Magnum in some sense are users of the "VM and baremetal" constellation of +projects. We need to work to reach out to all types of "users" and involve +them in the development process, where we can. + +None of this should takeaway from a project's ability to work in isolation. +I expect to see various partly overlapping constellations of projects, +indeed constellations that involve projects that are not part of OpenStack. +They all need to thrive, to meet our users needs. + +I hope these kinds of efforts will compliment the existing release goals +process that works to prioritize things that affect most or all OpenStack +projects. + + +Many thanks for reading and considering my candidacy. + +John Garbutt + +IRC: johnthetubaguy