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On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:33 AM, Dan Wendlandt <dan at nicira.com> wrote:

> 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
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> 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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