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Adding my candidacy for OpenStack TC. Change-Id: I135e911ccfc4610c088ec950931f92c6ad0a57d2
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I would like to announce my candidacy for election to the OpenStack
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Technical Committee.
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By way of introduction, I am[1] a relatively recent arrival to
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OpenStack; I've been working on Trove since just before Icehouse. I
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was the PTL of the project for the Newton cycle, and was recently
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elected to a second term as the PTL for the Ocata cycle. I am also
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active in the Stewardship Working Group (SWG)[2].
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I believe that a place on the TC is an opportunity to serve the
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OpenStack community. An important aspect of leadership is something
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called 'servant leadership', the notion that leaders are there to
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serve the rest of their constituents. This is also a concept central
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to the SWG which I am a part of. If elected to the TC, it would be my
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privilege to serve all of you.
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What does that mean?
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The charter of the OpenStack Technical Committee[3] charges the TC
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with providing 'technical leadership'.
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There are however a number of questions that must be answered such as
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"What is OpenStack", and I submit to you that these are not
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necessarily just 'technical'. The TC has been spending a lot of time
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trying to answer some of these.
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Some of this makes total sense, but then there are are questions about
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what 'maturity' is, and who an 'active reviewer' is. The TC has been
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spending an inordinate of time trying to decide what metrics or
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attributes of a contributor it can measure, and then proceeding to
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define activity and maturity in terms of those things.
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I submit to you that these latter things are a huge distraction.
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In the process, I believe that there are significant 'technical'
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issues that have paid the penalty, for example the notion of cross
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project goals (series goals [4]), one that I strongly believe are
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meaningful and within the scope of the TC.
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If elected to the TC, I would like to use my position to urge the TC
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to spend more time on the important things like "How do we make
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OpenStack better for users", and "How can we make a cross-project goal
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for python3 work", and less of its time on the distractions that have
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been numerous of late.
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In a nutshell, I'd like to put more of the "technical" back into the
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"Technical Committee", and re-focus it on serving the OpenStack
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community, the very essence of Stewardship.
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Thank you for your reading, and I appreciate your support, and giving
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me the opportunity to SERVE YOU on the Technical Committee.
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-amrith
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[1] http://www.openstack.org/community/members/profile/15733
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[2] https://governance.openstack.org/resolutions/20160705-stewardship.html
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[3] https://governance.openstack.org/reference/charter.html
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[4] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/349068/
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