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Yes, Mark is a great candidate, and as a bonus it would mean we have two
PTLs who are "Mark Mc"... which is sure to make life fun for ttx :)

Dan

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Shiv Haris <sharis at brocade.com> wrote:

> +1
>
> Mike is thorough, thoughtful and makes people think.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark McClain [mailto:mark.mcclain at dreamhost.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 12:00 PM
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List
> Subject: [openstack-dev] Quantum PTL Candidacy
>
> Hi-
>
> I'm writing to announce my candidacy for the Quantum PTL.  The Quantum
> team has done a great job during the Grizzly cycle and I'm excited about
> what's ahead for the Havana cycle.  My work at DreamHost provides me a
> unique perspective of deploying Quantum at scale using both IPv4 and IPv6.
>  Working for a deployer also reinforces my desire for a vibrant,
> multi-vendor ecosystem within Quantum.
>
> Qualifications
> -------------------
>
> I am a Quantum core developer with 13 years of commercial Python
> development experience.  During my career, I have developed and deployed
> network applications based on the same underlying libraries as Quantum.  I
> started contributing to Quantum during the Essex development cycle.  In
> Folsom, I was promoted to core and was the primary developer of the DHCP
> implementation and Quantum's network namespace library.
>
> Grizzly Accomplishments
> ----------------------------------
>
> In the Grizzly cycle,  I worked both as a developer and a core team member.
>
> Grizzly Development:
> - Added Metadata Service Support to Quantum. (Quantum High Priority)
> - Developed database migration framework for Quantum to support all
> plugins. (Quantum Essential Priority)
> - Developed the LBaaS Agent Reference Implementation. (Quantum High
> Priority)
> - Added support for preserving NIC ordering when booting an instance
> attached to Quantum. (Nova High Priority Bug)
>
> Grizzly Core Team:
> - Second most active reviewer on the Quantum team.
> - Leader of the L3/IPAM/DHCP and Database sub teams.
> - Led triaging and sub-team assignment of bugs.
> - Assisted members of the community to further their understanding of
> Quantum and improve Python development best practices.
> - Interfaced with vendors new to Quantum and helped in the integration of
> their plugins.
>         (core reviewer on 4 of the new vendor plugins included with
> Grizzly)
> - Worked to promote Quantum by presenting at regional OpenStack Meetups in
> both Atlanta and Los Angeles.
>
>
> Havana
> -----------
>
> During the Havana development cycle, I'd like to see the team focus on:
>
> - Continuing to grow the community of contributors and code reviewers.
> - Improving documentation for both deployers and developers.
> - Improving database resource modeling and extension management.
> - Collaborating with the Nova team to make Quantum the default network
> implementation.
> - Leveraging the service insertion framework to add new services (i.e.
> VPN).
> - Modularization of L2 and L3.
> - L3 improvements (ACLs, better IPv6, pluggable IPAM).
> - Integrating plugins from vendors new to the community including LBaaS
> plugins/drivers.
> - Further work to ease deploying at scale.
> - More efficient Quantum system testing and gating.
> - Supporting the Horizon team for better Quantum integration.
>
>
> I'd love the chance to be the PTL and work with the Quantum team to fill
> in gaps in this list during the summit in Portland.
>
> Thanks,
>
> mark
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