I would like to propose my candidacy for Dragonflow PTL position.

Dragonflow has recently joined OpenStack big-tent but i have been working
on it from the start even before the Kilo release.
Leading the open design/architecture of the project and doing most of the
implementation in the first stages of the project.

Recently many new people joined to work on this project both internally
and externally and i am making sure the project runs transparently while
constantly receiving community feedback.

My goal for Dragonflow is to make it a reference architecture to implement
networking and distributed networking services in an easy and simple manner
while supporting production grade and large scale requirements.

I think that Dragonflow pluggable architecture is proving to be a strong
choice we made and is even being considered at other OpenStack networking
projects.
I also believe that our simplicity can be very appealing to users that
want a simple network virtualization solution part of OpenStack.

An important goal is to keep Dragonflow an integral part of OpenStack
and make sure to address the various use cases of OpenStack deployments
in terms of networking.

My missions for the next release:

* Stability and Scale testing, making sure what we have and the road we picked
  actually address the milestones we set for our self.

* Work with the community to define testing standards for both control and
  data plane testing and measurements that can help OpenStack users pick the
  best fit solution for their networking.
  I would also like to work on defining quality standards for DB consistency and
  correct solution and feature sets definition for the various different plugins.

* Work with a wider OpenStack community and additional different users, i personally see
  Dragonflow as a community effort and put a strong emphasise on diversity and
  solutions to more different use cases the wider community has.

* Service Injection and Chaining - this topic describe our extension model and how
  different users can use external applications and even controllers to work hand
  in hand with Dragonflow and be able to insert logic to our pipeline.
  This concept is very important to keep Dragonflow simple but also be able to easily
  extend it and be able to address various different use cases.

* Containers networking and close integration with project Kuryr, making sure
  Dragonflow can be used as a solution for nested containers and bare metal.

* More advance distributed networking services like IGMP, Load balancer, DNS
  service and more that can be reference architecture for building distributed
  networking services on one infrastructure.

* Keep writing blogs and conducting meetups for new contributors and users, enhance
  our project documentation and best practices and sharing our experience with the
  wider community.


As you can see i am planning a very challenging release but i believe that we can
do it and i would like to help this happen.

Thanks
Gal.