Hi everybody! I've been trying to justify why you should all select me as PTL for Stable branch maintenance. As part of that I've looked at my self-nomination platforms for Ocata[1] and Pike[2]. 1. Work with project teams to understand how decisions taken on master will impact their stable branches. Specifically projects with a driver model. 2. Work with project teams to implement constraints support 3. Growing the project specific, and stable-maint teams 4. Re-establishing regular team meetings and presence in #openstack-stable 5. Producing tooling to aid projects teams, release managers and the stable team to keep stable branches current and released with a regular cadence 6. Producing tooling and procedures to help retire projects as required Some tools are better, some process is clearer but I haven't completed any of those items, I could make excuses based on things that have happened in the last 6 months but I feel the bottom line is I don't know *how* to do those items. I'm better at the technical stuff than I am at the helping people grow. So if y'all will have me I promise to: * Work on the items in the list above[3] * Lean on the community and TC to help be achieve the parts I can't do on my own. * Give it all I can [1] https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/election/plain/candidates/ocata/Stable_Branch_Maintenance/tonyb.txt [2] https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/election/plain/candidates/pike/Stable_Branch_Maintenance/tonyb.txt [3] Except 4. we decided that wasn't working and dropped it altogether. :p