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Greetings,
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I'd like to raise my hand and send my candidacy for Glance's PTL
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position. If you've heard my name, it's entirely possible that you
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hear it either for my Zaqar's PTL position or my current TC position.
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Before I go forward with my candidacy, allow me to say that I won't be
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running for Zaqar's PTL position and that it's my intention to be
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entirely focused on Glance[0]. I take being a PTL seriously[1] and I
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strongly believe in the importance of focus when it comes to making
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progress, which is what I'd like to base my candidacy on.
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Glance may seem a simple service but it's not as simple as many folks
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think. It's small compared to many other projects but it's still
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exciting to work on. Perhaps, even more important than how exciting it
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is, we should all remember the impact this project has on the rest of
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the community and how it impacts all the OpenStack deployments out
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there. In addition to this, Glance remains one of the projects that
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are considered part of the starting kit and it serves a very important
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task in a cloud deployment.
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The reason I'm bringing the above up is because I believe we've
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derailed a bit from that and that we should bring focus back on what's
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the most important task for Glance, which is to serve cloud images in
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a resilent, consistent and reliable way. This is not to say that
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innovation should be stopped but it certainly shouldn't affect this
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mission.
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I believe these are some of the most important topics that our team
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should focus on are:
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- Collaboration with other projects to migrate OpenStack to use
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- Glance's V2 API Collaborate with the defcore team to define a clear
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view and support of what Glance provides and is.
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- Increase V2 API stability and awareness.
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- Improve Glance's gate story to make sure we cover enough scenarios
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that are representative of existing deployments and use cases.
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By reading the above four points, it's clear that I think that lots of
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our work should go on cross-project collaboration. However, I'd like
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to extend that to cross-team collaboration. One of the things that I
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believe has affected Glance a lot is the lack of interaction with
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other teams, especially with OPs, when it came down to working on new
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features that had an impact on users. Therefore, I'd like to help
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increasing cross-team collaboration in Glance's team.
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As far as my involvement in Glance goes, I've been part of the team
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since I started working on OpenStack. For the upcoming cycle, I'm
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ready to dedicate my PTL duties entirely on the project and completely
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focused on what's important to bring back focus and keep the project
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growing but stable.
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As some of you know already, I'm also part of the Technical Committee
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and I'll be up for election next April, which means I'll be part of
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the TC for, at least, 6 more months. Being part of the TC takes time
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and this is something you should keep in mind (as much as I
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do). However, if I were to be elected as Glance's PTL, I'll dedicate
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all my efforts and time - consider that my current job allows me to be
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full time upstream - to just these to roles.
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It'd be a great honor for me to work together with the Glance team and
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to keep sharing knowledge, experiences and work as I've been doing so
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far but this time as a PTL.
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Thanks for reading thus far and for considering this candidacy,
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Sincerely, Flavio
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[0] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-September/074212.html
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[1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-September/073986.html
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