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I confirm that John is eligible to be a PTL candidate for Cinder.

On 03/05/2013 05:31 PM, John Griffith wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
> 
> For those that don't know me, I'm a senior software engineer employed by
> SolidFire Inc, who's full time job is OpenSource and more specifically
> OpenStack, and even more specifically Cinder.
> 
> 
>     Contributions over the last six months:
> 
>     This spring will mark one year since we decided to spin out
>     Nova-Volume in to Cinder while at the Summit in San Francisco 
>      During Folsom, I lead the efforts to build Cinder and get a
>     functional replacement for Nova-Volume ready and available.  At the
>     end of Folsom Cinder was voted in as what we then called  a Core
>     project and I was elected as the PTL.  Since then, we've continued
>     to build the core team as well as continuing to attract new
>     developers and vendors who want to be a part of OpenStack/Cinder.
>      Grizzly has been a big release cycle for us, lots of useful new
>     features like Fibre Channel support, backups, filter scheduling,
>     multi-backends, API versioning, better boot from volume, cloning,
>     LVM mirroring and LVM Thin Provisioning, not to mention all of the
>     new back-end drivers that have been added.
> 
>     My focus has continued to be on contributing code to the Cinder core
>     project, not only in terms of code submissions but also in terms of
>     evangelism to the outside user community and being available to help
>     new-comers who want to participate and get involved.
> 
> Most critical aspects for Cinder in the next 6 months:
> 
>     There are a number of things that I see as vital for Cinder over the
>     next six months.  The common theme for Havanna though comes down to
>     one word "quality".  I'd like to spend the first Havanna milestone
>     focusing on Cinder quality.  This includes more active involvement
>     in Tempest to improve the work that's already been done there and
>     more importantly to add to it.  
> 
>     This also includes seemingly simple things like standardizing and
>     improving logging and exception handling.  Some other pieces include
>     things like introducing states for Volumes, and just a good scrub of
>     the code we have.
> 
>     Further down the line we have a number of topics to discuss at the
>     summit including Volume migration, improvements to features we
>     introduced in Grizzly and better testing/integration methods for
>     third party drivers.
> 
> Concerns going forward:
> 
>     Features for features sake in Cinder, what I mean by this is I'd
>     like to avoid making Cinder any more complex than it has to be just
>     in order to put in any feature that anybody can think of and find
>     useful in to the code base.  
> 
>     Drifting back to Nova for block storage related code.  With all the
>     discussions about encryption in Nova for attached volumes etc and
>     some other patches that I've seen over the months I'd like to get
>     folks to come up with a strategy of where functionality belongs and
>     what project it should reside in.  There's a risk of features added
>     in another project inhibiting features in Cinder or even worse
>     conflicting with them, and I think one task for the PTL is to
>     communicate with the other project teams to flush these sorts of
>     things out.
> 
> 
> If you have any questions for me, please feel free to ask.  Also
> hopefully folks on the Cinder team that I've been working with
> throughout the Grizzly release would be willing to offer up their
> opinion/thoughts about me fulfilling the role of PTL, so feel free to
> hit them up on IRC as well to get their input (assuming they're willing).
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
> 
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