diff --git a/candidates/train/Keystone/colleen@gazlene.net b/candidates/train/Keystone/colleen@gazlene.net new file mode 100644 index 00000000..29411f70 --- /dev/null +++ b/candidates/train/Keystone/colleen@gazlene.net @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +Please consider my candidacy for the role of keystone PTL. + +I have been involved with keystone for a little over three years and have loved +it from the beginning. My first introduction to keystone was from the +perspective of a deployer project contributor, while I was working on getting +the Puppet-OpenStack modules to work with the keystone v3 API. I found the +problem space fascinating and the people warm and welcoming. Given free reign +at the time to work on anything that interested me, I chose to jump into +keystone. I currently work at SUSE as a cloud engineer specializing in the +keystone component. + +I see keystone as being in a unique position in the OpenStack ecosystem as a +sort of backbone of OpenStack. As such, the challenges we face as a team are +somewhat self-imposed: we don't have vendors pressuring us to get features in, +but rather we push ourselves to add features to make OpenStack as a whole +better. Deficiencies in keystone means hardship for nearly all OpenStack +operators and difficulties for other OpenStack developers. It's a tough burden +to bear and yet it's what makes keystone the most fun to work on. + +As PTL, my top technical focus will be in continuing the great work Lance has +done around improving the policy and RBAC experience for operators, and helping +to drive the changes needed in the rest of the OpenStack to fulfill this +long-overdue goal. We will work to envision and fulfill the TC's technical +vision for OpenStack[1][2], striving for true multitenancy and enabling a +completely self-service solution. + +Aside from that, I will not plan to drive many features. Instead I will work to +empower other developers to drive feature work and grow into maintainers, by +taking a step back to clean up technical debt, fix longstanding bugs, and +enhance our CI test coverage and performance measuring. I will invest heavily +in our contributor documentation, digging up and writing down the team's tribal +knowledge, and I'd like to start building out and documenting reference +architectures for keystone in conjunction with operators and working groups. + +As a team, we need to continue to encourage and recruit new contributors and +grow them into the core team. We do that by continuing to participate in +mentoring programs like Outreachy or in university capstone classes, by +reaching out to users and operators and helping them contribute back, by +creating bite-sized chunks of work that a new person can tackle quickly (Lance +did a great job of this by breaking up the system scope and reader role work +into separate tasks), and by continuing to be ourselves: friendly and +welcoming, non-nitpicky, helpful and responsive. In the last few months we've +already seen a pickup in long-term maintainers and it's been a welcome sight. + +I want to thank Lance for doing an amazing job as PTL for the last few years +and for everything he's accomplished, and I can only hope to live up to the +example he's set. + +Thank you for your consideration. + +Colleen Murphy (cmurphy) + +[1] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/technical-vision.html +[2] https://review.openstack.org/641374