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It's time again for the PTL elections, and I'm throwing my hat in the
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ring to lead the Community App Catalog project
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(https://apps.openstack.org).
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During the last election cycle I made a few promises which I believe
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I've delivered on. We've continued to operate entirely in the open
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including holding weekly meetings on IRC along with bringing a few
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issues to the mailing list when I felt we could benefit from opinions
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of a broader audience. Another bit of success is that we've adjusted
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the schema to support additional asset types, and have received our
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first in this category in the form of a TOSCA template[1]. We still
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have work to do on the web site in order to actually show additional
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asset types in addition to adding that capability to the App Catalog
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Horizon plugin, but that work is in progress.
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The other significant effort was to implement a legitimate API, which
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is now showing promise via the work to implement GLARE as the back
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end[2]. In fact we will have a working PoC by the summit in Austin -
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and we'll certainly complete that work before the following summit. I
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will do everything I can to make sure the folks working on this get
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all the support they need.
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Looking ahead to the next cycle, the two biggest things the Community
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App Catalog needs are a clarified mission and a whole lot more
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publicity. I'm guilty of living in my own bubble here, assuming
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everybody must wake up thinking about the catalog after dreaming about
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it all night long (just like me!) But it turns out there are plenty
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of people in the community who haven't even *heard* of the Community
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App Catalog. I realize I need to work a lot harder to bring attention
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to our efforts here. What we've built can benefit most OpenStack
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projects, and should become the standard place to host assets noted in
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our documentation. There are many other ways we can all be using the
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Community App Catalog to benefit OpenStack as a whole, and I'll start
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to discuss and debate my ideas on the mailing lists in the weeks and
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months to come.
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Speaking of clarified mission, I intend to work within our own
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community to build consensus around what we mean when we say "an
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OpenStack App". I believe if we can start to agree on that, and agree
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on the best way(s) to package and distribute such things, the
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Community App Catalog will become much more valuable to a larger
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audience very quickly.
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I think the Community App Catalog has tremendous potential; if you'll
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have me as PTL again I'll keep working my hardest to deliver!
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[1]: https://review.openstack.org/289132
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[2]: https://review.openstack.org/276857
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