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Hi,
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I would like to announce my candidacy for the PTL position of Solum for Mitaka.
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In my view the challenges in front of us are twofold, which I have outlined below.
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I believe that I will be able to help us take concrete steps
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towards addressing these challenges in this cycle.
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Our first challenge is to continue developing and evolving Solum's feature set
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so that the project becomes a valuable option for operators to offer
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it in their OpenStack installations.
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Particularly, in my opinion, following features need to be completed in this regard:
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(a) Consistency between API and CLI:
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Currently Solum API and CLI have slightly different abstractions preventing
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consistency of usage when using CLI vs. directly using the REST API.
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We have started working on changing this[1], which needs to be completed.
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(b) Ability to scale application instances:
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For this, we need to investigate how we can use Magnum for satisfying
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Solum's application-instance scaling and scheduling requirements.
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(c) Insight into application building and deployment process:
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This includes, collecting fine-grained logs in various Solum services,
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ability to correlate logs across Solum services,
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collecting and maintaining historical information about user actions
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to build and deploy applications on Solum.
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(d) Ability to build and deploy multi-tier applications:
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One idea here is to investigate if something like Magnum's Pod abstraction
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can be leveraged for this.
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As PTL, I will work towards helping the team move the story forward on these features.
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Also, whenever required, I will work closely with other OpenStack projects, particularly Magnum,
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to ensure that our team's requirements are adequately represented in their forum.
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The second challenge for us is to increase community involvement in and around Solum.
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Some ideas that I have in this regard are as follows:
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(1) Bug squash days:
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My involvement with OpenStack started three years ago when I participated
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in a bug squash day organized by Anne Gentle at Rackspace Austin [2].
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I believe we could organize similar bug squash days for Solum to attract new contributors.
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Also, there could be experienced Solum contributors whose current priorities might
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not be allowing them to participate in Solum development,
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but who might still like to continue contributing to Solum.
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Bug squash days would provide them a dedicated time and place to participate again in Solum development.
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(2) Increasing project visibility:
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Some of the actionable items here are:
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- Periodic emails to openstack-dev mailing list giving updates on project's status, achievements, etc.
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- Periodic blog posts
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- Presentations at meetup events
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(3) Growing community:
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- Reaching out to folks who are interested in application build and deployment story on OpenStack,
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and inviting them to join Solum IRC meetings and mailing list discussions.
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- Reviving mid-cycle meetups
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As PTL, I will take actions on some of the above ideas towards helping build and grow our community.
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About my background -- I have been involved with Solum since the beginning of the project.
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In this period, I have contributed to the project in several ways including,
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designing and implementing different features, fixing bugs, performing code reviews,
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helping debug gate issues, helping maintain a working Vagrant environment,
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maintaining community engagement through various avenues (IRC channel, IRC meetings, emails), and so on.
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More details about my participation and involvement in the project can be found here:
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http://stackalytics.com/?module=solum
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http://stackalytics.com/?module=python-solumclient
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I hope you will give me an opportunity to serve as Solum's PTL for Mitaka.
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Best regards,
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Devdatta Kulkarni
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[1] https://github.com/openstack/solum-specs/blob/master/specs/liberty/app-resource.rst
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[2] http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Austin/events/48406252/
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