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Hi everyone,
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I'd like to announce my candidacy for the RPM Packaging for OpenStack PTL. I
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am putting up the candidacy because I would feel honored to continue doing the
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PTL role, but I'm also fine with passing on the torch. At the end of the
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day what matters is that the project becomes successful and relevant and
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I'm happy to contribute my share to that.
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During the Mitaka cycle I've been working closely with our small but motivated
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contributor group to reach a critical mass of package spec files to self-sustain
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the project. While we haven't reached the full goal the trend is up[1] and I still
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very much care about the idea and implementation. We're at least in a
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state where the spec file templates are already in actual production use
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by one of the vendors (SUSE), and both Red Hat and Mirantis are considering it.
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We've reached a lot by diligently working through the various RPM packaging
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vendors packaging requirements and abstracting them in a way that allows
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them to feel "native" to the platform while still sharing the bulk of the
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work on packaging openstack and I'd be happy to work on that further with
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the help from the other contributors.
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Obviously all that I did so far I would like to continue and make sure that
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we build something that everyone can embrace.
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For Newton I would like to focus on:
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* Extend package spec template set to cover the bulk of packages that define
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an OpenStack distribution and are maintained in the OpenStack git/gerrit
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* Foster collaboration with downstream packaging vendors (Mirantis/RDO/SUSE) to
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switch to the common packaging by working through barriers that prevent
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adoption and contributions.
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* Work with downstream packaging vendors to contribute extra CI for their platform,
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as currently only SUSE invested the effort in adding a check CI step.
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Thanks,
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Dirk
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[1] = http://stackalytics.com/?module=rpm-packaging
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