Open Stack

Confirmed.

On 10/07/2013 06:19 AM, Sean Dague wrote:
> I'd like to announce my candidacy for the TC.
>
> About me
> --------
> I've been involved in OpenStack since early 2012. I'm currently the 
> PTL for the OpenStack QA program, and a core reviewer on Tempest, 
> Devstack, Nova, Grenade, and a myriad of smaller pieces of OpenStack 
> infrastructure (including hacking and elastic-recheck). [1][2]
>
> My focus in OpenStack has been about making OpenStack work as a 
> consistent whole, both from a runtime and development perspective. I 
> believe this consistency, and the idea of OpenStack being one project 
> (with many moving parts) is important to the long term health of the 
> community. This has let me to focus on the projects that integrate us, 
> the QA Program, Devstack, and parts of the gate infrastructure, and 
> things like the wsgi log filter on logs.openstack.org.
>
> Beyond OpenStack I've had a long history of contributing to Open 
> Source projects both as part of my day job and on my own time. [3][4]
>
> I've been involved in organizing communities for over a decade, 
> creating and leading our local Linux & Open Source users group back in 
> 2003 and running it ever since. [5]
>
>
> Platform
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> This view of OpenStack as a single whole is the reason I've focussed 
> on the QA Program, as I feel that our gate infrastructure, and the 
> integration tests that we choose to run there, is an incredibly 
> important lens that ensures OpenStack hangs together as a whole.
>
> This one OpenStack POV has also manifested itself in efforts like the 
> global-requirements testing, one of my top projects this summer, where 
> we now ensure all our projects actually are gating with a shared 
> global list of requirements, so we know they all work together in a 
> consistent way.
>
> I'm excited by the growth of projects applying for incubation, but as 
> the global requirements exercise showed, the more moving parts 
> OpenStack, the more important we prove they integrate well with each 
> other before they are graduated to integrated status. I think it's 
> important that this remains expressed in code, which has always been 
> the currency of OpenStack. Today that implementation lens for 
> integration is devstack/tempest, tomorrow this may be something 
> different, to meet the growing needs of the projects, but I still 
> think it's important that we've got a single lens that brings all of 
> Integrated OpenStack together, and that we can demonstrate it really is.
>
> Integration is important, and ensuring that existing integrated 
> projects remain integrated, and future ones really are integrated 
> before we promote them, is my primary concern.
>
> I'm incredibly excited by OpenStack's growth (in people, code, scope), 
> which I attribute to an incredibly welcoming and constructive 
> community, and the velocity we get out of our preemptive integration 
> system. As a TC member I'd do my best to ensure those conditions 
> remain. I think we've only just begun to see what OpenStack will 
> become, and I'd be honored to be elected to the TC to help in all ways 
> I can with it.
>
>     -Sean
>
> [1] - contribution list to OpenStack - 
> https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:merged+owner:sean%2540dague.net,n,z
> [2] - review list for OpenStack - 
> https://review.openstack.org/#/q/reviewer:sean%2540dague.net,n,z
> [3] - https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/sdague
> [4] - https://github.com/sdague/
> [5] - http://mhvlug.org
>