[openstack-dev] TC Candidacy

Doug Hellmann doug.hellmann at dreamhost.com
Tue Oct 8 00:24:56 UTC 2013


I am announcing my candidacy for a position on the OpenStack Technical
Committee.

I have been programming in Python professionally for 15 years, in a variety
of application areas, and am currently the development lead for DreamHost's
OpenStack-based public cloud project, DreamCompute. I am a member of the
Python Software Foundation, have been on the PyCon Program Committee, and
was Editor in Chief of Python Magazine. In June of 2011, I published "The
Python Standard Library by Example".

I started contributing to OpenStack in 2012, just before the Folsom summit.
I am a core reviewer and one of the founding members of the Ceilometer
project, and a core reviewer for the requirements and unified command line
interface projects. I am on the stable release maintenance team for
Grizzly, am part of the team working on the Python 3 transition, and have
contributed to several of the infrastructure projects. I will be the PTL
for the Oslo project starting with the Icehouse release.

These development activities, combined with our deployment work at
DreamHost, have given me a unique cross-project perspective into OpenStack,
and reinforced for me the importance of consistency across our components.
One of the roles of the technical committee is to encourage projects to
find commonalities and adopt consistent approaches or tools to make the
project run more smoothly for all contributors and users. Using consistent
libraries, coding style, and implementation patterns helps integrate new
developers with our community more quickly and encourages existing
developers to participate in more than one project. Using consistent tools
helps our infrastructure team create and maintain the automated systems
that have made OpenStack's impressive development velocity possible.
Consistent configuration tools also help packagers and deployers consume
what we are producing, making adoption easier. Consistent APIs and UIs make
it easier for end users to choose OpenStack clouds, either public or
private, over other options.

In addition to my code contributions, I am especially proud of the work
over the last year that went into bringing Ceilometer through incubation to
become an integrated project. Because we were one of the earliest projects
to go through formal incubation, much of the process was still being
developed as we were navigating it. I learned a lot while contributing to
that discussion. There are still some open questions about how mature a
project must be to enter incubation, and what level of integration is
needed before graduation. I look forward to addressing those questions as
we continue to grow as a community.

I share the view of many of the other candidates that OpenStack should not
limit itself to today's definition of IaaS. The history of computing is a
progression of different levels of abstraction, and what we consider
"platform" today may become "infrastructure" tomorrow.

I have found the OpenStack community to be the most welcoming group I have
interacted with in more than 20 years of contributing to open source. I'm
excited to be a part of OpenStack, and look forward to continuing to
contribute in whatever way I am able.

Doug


My commit history:
https://review.openstack.org/#/q/owner:doug.hellmann%2540dreamhost.com,n,z

My review history:
https://review.openstack.org/#/q/reviewer:doug.hellmann%2540dreamhost.com,n,z

My Ohloh account: https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/doughellmann

My blog: http://doughellmann.com/
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