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+Hi,
+
+I would like to announce my candidacy for Octavia PTL for the Caracal release.
+I have been PTL since the Xena cycle and I want to continue to contribute to
+this role.
+
+For Caracal I would like that we continue our progress on new features such as
+DPDK support, SR-IOV support, Active/Active support with BGP.
+Internally, I would like to improve our DB-related code, I think we can have
+more efficient DB queries.
+
+Thanks for your consideration,
+
+Gregory Thiemonge (gthiemonge)