Open Stack

Confirmed.

On 10/10/2013 10:14 PM, Boris Pavlovic wrote:
>
> Dear Stackers, I would like to put my candidacy for a position on the 
> OpenStack Technical Committee. I have been an active OpenStack 
> contributor for over a year, my work mostly concentrated around 
> improving existing OpenStack code (unifying common parts of OpenStack 
> projects and putting them to oslo, improving performance and test 
> coverage, fixing bugs). In the previous cycles I have been focusing on 
> improving OpenStack Database code, improving its performance, fixing a 
> lot of nasty bugs, making it more maintainable, durable and backward 
> compatible. I lead the community effort across all core projects to 
> centralize database
>
> code into oslo-incubator (others will be switched in IceHouse). In 
> addition to being an active contributor, I spend a lot of time helping 
> newcomers to OpenStack to become better Open Source citizens. During 
> Havana I coordinated the activies of 16 of my team members across 
> several projects (nova, oslo, cinder and glance) which helped Mirantis 
> to make a meaningful contribution to OpenStack: 
> http://stackalytics.com/?release=havana&metric=commits&project_type=core 
> Currently I am focusing on the goal of consistently improving 
> OpenStack performance at scale, arguably one of the biggest challenges 
> across all of OpenStack. I believe that the problem with scale and 
> performance could be solved easily by the community. The main problem 
> is that contributors don't have an easy way to see how their commits 
> affect performance at scale. This is why two months ago (with the help 
> of four of my colleagues) I started work on project Rally (The 
> OpenStack Benchmark System). Rally allows everyone to see, close to 
> real life, the performance of the OpenStack cloud at scale. This 
> system will be closely integrated with the existing OpenStack CI, 
> making the process of tuning OpenStack scalability and performance 
> simple and transparent for everybody.
>
> Next Monday, in collaboration with our colleagues from Bluehost and 
> IBM, we are going to release the first version of Rally.
>
> I believe that at this point in time, the focus of the community ought 
> to shift to enabling our customers to adopt OpenStack in real 
> production use cases. This means that such issues as performance, 
> quality, reliability, maintainability and scalability should get a 
> higher priority, and as a member of the OpenStack TC, I would like to 
> become a strong advocate for making OpenStack production ready. Links: 
> 1. Rally Wiki https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Rally
>
> 2. Rally Launchpad https://launchpad.net/rally
>
> 3. Example of Rally results: 
> https://docs.google.com/a/mirantis.com/file/d/0B7XIUFtx6EISTEpPb0tRSTFIaFk/edit?usp=drive_web 
> 3. My Launchpad https://launchpad.net/~boris-42 
> <https://launchpad.net/%7Eboris-42> 4. My Contribution 
> https://review.openstack.org/#/q/owner:boris-42+status:merged,n,z 5. 
> My Contribution statistics: 
> http://stackalytics.com/?release=all&metric=commits&project_type=All&user_id=boris-42 
>
>
> Best regards, Boris Pavlovic --- Mirantis Inc.
>
>
>
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