diff --git a/candidates/rocky/Quality_Assurance/gmann.txt b/candidates/rocky/Quality_Assurance/gmann.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c3a1a95c --- /dev/null +++ b/candidates/rocky/Quality_Assurance/gmann.txt @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +Hi everyone, + +I would like to announce my PTL candidacy of the Quality Assurance for +Rocky cycle. + +I am glad and lucky to work in OpenStack community and would like to +thank all the contributors who supported me to explore new things and +ideas. +You might know me as gmann on IRC. I have joined the OpenStack since +2012 and 100% in upstream development since Ice-house release. +Currently i am contributing in QA, Nova & sometimes other projects too +and a core member in QA projects like Tempest, Patrole etc. Along with +that, I volunteered as mentor in the upstream institute and help to +bring new contributor onboard. + +QA program always play a key role in smooth upstream development and +its quality. Also help production clouds for their testing and +stability. QA responsibilities are always challenging and need lot of +coordination and collaboration with each projects team. Till now we +have been doing good job which is not just because of QA team but it's +all together a combined effort from all projects. + +Keep having regular ideas from different contributors to improve QA +is phenomenal and I truly appreciate. Those ideas helped QA program to +grow more in last couple of years. One example is extreme testing of +OpenStack which is in discussion since previous summits/PTG with PoC +and will add strength to QA program. other example is Patrole for RBAC +testing which is really important for cloud security. My concentration +as PTL will be to make good progress in extreme testing or any other +new initiatives and make Patrole more stable and feature-rich so that +we can see their tests running in respective projects gate. + +We have plugins framework approach for Tempest/Devstack/Grenade and +their plugins exist across almost all the OpenStack projects, I feel +that collaboration with projects team is the key role of QA team. Even +though, we have been helping and fixing plugins whenever needed but I +would like to improve more in this area. My objective is to make each +plugin owners to use the QA services and interfaces in more better and +easy way. I would like to improve the relationship and coverage of +help in every possible way. + +Bug Triage and gate stability is the another important area for QA +team. We have been doing good in bug triage since couple of years with +target of 0 un-triaged bug. I would like to make sure we continue the +focus in both area in next cycle too. + +Along with that let me summarize me the areas I am planning to focus +on in Rocky Cycle. + +* Improvement and new Ideas in QA program as overall: + - Improve the testing coverage for key features. + + - Improve QA process and tracking in more better way for planned + deliverable. + + - New ideas and their progress to convert into a running software. + +* Collaboration and Help: + - Cross community collaboration on tool, idea sharing etc, opnfv, + k8s are best example as of now. + + - Help the other Projects' developments with test writing/improvement + and gate stability + + - Plugin improvement and helping them on daily basis by defining doable + process and goal. + +* Bring on more contributor and core reviewers. + +Following are my contribution activities: +* http://stackalytics.com/?release=all&metric=marks&user_id=ghanshyammann&project_type=all +* http://stackalytics.com/?release=all&metric=commits&user_id=ghanshyammann&project_type=all + +Thanks for reading and consideration my candidacy. + +-gmann