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I'd like to announce my candidacy for Swift PTL.
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Within the Swift community, we have established traditions that ensure
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we move carefully, and with purpose. Somewhere out there, there is an
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out-of-date-node with data scribbled down in a legacy format that we
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must still make durable, or an old client written against a years-old
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version of Swift that continues to perform its business-critical
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function. By keeping these realities in mind, we have (out of necessity)
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featured rolling-upgrades since our first release.
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This is not to say that we must therefore move slowly (though we often
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do, particularly now that the hype wave has crested, crashed, and begun
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to ebb). Despite our conservatism, there are few signs of ossification:
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new use-cases and new workloads bring new demands, and Swift evolves to
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satisfy them with new features.
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We now approach a new transition: John, our long-serving PTL, is
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stepping down. I have no worries, however; the Swift community is
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accustomed to dealing with (and thinking in terms of) an array of
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mostly-independent actors, working to improve the state of the system.
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The Swift developers are among the best I've had the pleasure to work
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alongside, and I have no doubt that Swift will continue to improve.
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I believe the best way I can further that improvement is to serve as PTL;
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to listen to users; to engage with operators; to enable developers. We
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are working on great, ambitious projects:
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* Pete from Red Hat is driving us supporting Python 3. We've known for
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a while that this would be necessary; it's good to see it finally
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happening.
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* Alex and Romain from OVH are upstreaming their (already running in
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production!) alternate diskfile format to support small objects.
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* Clay at SwiftStack continues to make replication and
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reconstruction better.
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* Kazuhiro at NTT is reworking the object-expirer queue, turning it
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into a general task queue.
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There is a lot going on in Swift. I can't wait to see what we build.
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