Open Stack

I'm interested in serving on the OpenStack TC.

# About me

I've been working on OpenStack for only a year now, since joining
Monty's merry gang of reprobates<wink/> at HP. However I've been
entirely focused on networking and distributed systems since ~2000 -
having as highlights -core membership in the squid HTTP cache team,
one of the founders of the Bazaar DVCS project, and a huge mix of
testing and development efficiency thrown into the mix :). Earlier
this year I was privileged to become a Python Software Foundation
member, and I'm keen to see us collaborating more with upstream,
particularly around testing.

I live in New Zealand, giving me overlap with the US and with a lot of
Asia, but talking with Europe requires planning :)

# Platform

At the recent TripleO sprint in Seattle I was told I should apply for
the TC; after some soul searching, I think yes, I should :).

Three key things occurred to me:

All of our joint hard work to develop OpenStack is wasted if users
can't actually obtain and deploy it. This is why we're working on
making deployment a systematic, rigorous and repeatable upstream
activity: we need to know as part of the CI gate that what we're
developing is usable, in real world scenarios. This is a
multi-component problem: we can't bolt 'be deployable' on after all
the code is written : and thats why during the last two cycles I've
been talking about the problems deploying from trunk at the summits,
and will continue to do so. This cross-program, cross-project effort
ties into the core of what we do, and it's imperative we have folk on
the TC that are actually deploying OpenStack (TripleO is running a
live cloud -https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TripleO/TripleOCloud- all
TripleO devs are helping deploy a production cloud).

I have a -lot- of testing experience, and ongoing unit and functional
testing evolution will continue to play a significant role in
OpenStack quality; the TC can help advise across all projects about
automated testing; I'd be delighted to assist with that.

Finally, and I'm going to quote Monty here: "As a TC member, I will
place OpenStack's interests over the interests of any individual
project if a conflict between the project and OpenStack, or a project
with another project should a arise." - I think this is a key attitude
we should all hold: we're building an industry changing platform, and
we need to think of the success of the whole platform as being *the*
primary thing to aim for.

Thank you for your consideration,
Rob
-- 
Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com>
Distinguished Technologist
HP Converged Cloud