diff --git a/candidates/victoria/TC/radoslaw.piliszek@gmail.com b/candidates/victoria/TC/radoslaw.piliszek@gmail.com new file mode 100644 index 00000000..121874b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/candidates/victoria/TC/radoslaw.piliszek@gmail.com @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +Dear Fellow OpenStackers, + +I am Radosław Piliszek (yoctozepto) and I am proposing myself as a TC +candidate starting Victoria cycle. +For the record, I have never been in TC nor a PTL... yet. + +I am affiliated with a relatively small Polish university: University of +Białystok, with the local Computing Centre offering services to local +academics. My experience is broad in that this work involves being +a whole IT department at once. :-) + +OpenStack piqued my interest in 2018 when I joined the Foundation as +an individual member. Since then I made myself COA (Certified OpenStack +Administrator), learnt the jump from "administrator" to "operator" while +deploying locally various PoC instances of basic OpenStack services and +finally started contributing upstream via bug reports, patches and +reviews. I was (and am!) really proud to have been recognized Kolla core +due to my work with fellow project members. Later on, DevStack core +nomination followed for which I am grateful as well. + +In the Kolla project I work mostly on ensuring sanity, enhancing testing +and fixing current issues while helping fellow contributors to deliver +their features and fixes. I also managed to deliver a bigger change +in the Train cycle: all-around IPv6-only networking support. + +I enjoyed the cross-project aspect of this and decided to contribute +a bit to the development experience as well and this is how I ended up +DevStack core (true story). + +Nowadays I am wearing multiple hats in the wide community and many of +you probably recognize me from IRC where I try to be helpful but also +ask questions around (often technical ones like: to be or not to be?). +One could say I'm inquisitive (hopefully in the good sense of this word) +and in fact I value highly a deeper insight into the problem at hand +(probably due to bad experience with hasty actions!). I react to issues +quite quickly (bothering infra from time to time - I am really sorry, +you folks are doing great job!) and work on solutions with fellow +OpenStackers (aka you) which brings real joy and makes experience real. + +I have a few, rather broad, goals (or thoughts?) of mine: + +1) To test, test and test. My motto is: "not tested = not working". + Unfortunately, this is actually often the case in reality. :-( + Hence, I encourage thorough testing, especially at the functional + and integration level. + I believe we need to be reliable to be trustworthy. + +2) To make OpenStack easily consumable by small companies, especially + in public academia but not only. Everyone deserves a good private + cloud experience with decent learning curve. This involves prompt + and current documentation but also reliable base for installs. + +(1) and (2) culminate in (3) [1+2=3 - could not have been simpler!] + +3) Who are we? BUILDERS! What do we want? TO BUILD! + (I hope you know the meme!) + Ultimately OpenStack is software built for specific purpose and is + meant to be consumed by cloud operators. We have plenty of ways to + get OpenStack "installed" but officially we still rely on the archaic + assumption that everything is thrown in the same environment. This is + rarely the case nowadays due to various layers of separation being + applied: virtual envs, OCI images. It would be beneficial to be able + to rely on prebuilt official images of OpenStack services and their + prerequisites, also for CI. We don't need to rebuild/reinstall + keystone, glance, nova and swift just to test neutron that one more + time, only to discover pip hangs installing dep of dep of not-even- + neutron due to random networking issue.* Similarly this is wasted + effort in case of multinode testing. Multiply this by the amount + of scenarios and... well, you probably get the picture. I know + we can do better: deliver more reliability via more reliability. + + * Order random for example purposes. + +This is as many relevant bits as I thought necessary to introduce +my candidacy and share my mind with you. + +Thank you for reaching this far. + +Radosław Piliszek (yoctozepto)