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On 24/09/14 04:37 PM, Swartzlander, Ben wrote:
> Hello! I have been the de-facto PTL for Manila from the conception of
> the project up to now. Since Manila is an officially incubated OpenStack
> program, I have the opportunity to run for election and hopefully become
> the officially elected PTL for the Manila project.
> 
> I'm running because I feel that the vision of the Manila project is
> still not achieved, even though we've made tremendous strides in the
> last year, and I want to see the project mature and become part of
> core OpenStack.
> 
> Some of you may remember the roots of the Manila project, when we
> proposed shared file system management as an extension to the
> then-nascent Cinder project during the Folsom release. It's taken a lot
> of attempts and failures to arrive at the current Manila project, and
> it's been an exciting and humbling journey, where along the way I've
> had the opportunity to work with many great individuals.
> 
> My vision for the future of the Manila includes:
> * Getting more integrated with the rest of OpenStack. We have Devstack,
>   Tempest, and Horizon integration, and I'd like to get that code into
>   the right places where it can be maintained. We also need to add Heat
>   integration, and more complete documentation.
> * Working with distributions on issues related to packaging and
>   installation to make Manila as easy to use as possible. This includes
>   work with Chef and Puppet.
> * Making Manila usable in more environments. Manila's design center has
>   been large-scale public clouds, but we haven't spent enough time on
>   small/medium scale environments -- the kind the developers typically
>   have and the kind that users typically start out with.
> * Taking good ideas from the rest of OpenStack. We're a small team and
>   we can't do everything ourselves. The OpenStack ecosystem is full of
>   excellent technology and I want to make sure we take the best ideas
>   and apply them to Manila. In particular, there are some features I'd
>   like to copy from the Cinder project.
> * A focus on quality. I want to make sure we keep test coverage high
>   as we add new features, and increase test coverage on existing
>   features. I also want to try to start vendor CI similar to what
>   Cinder has.
> * Lastly, I expect to work with vendors to get more drivers contributed
>   to expand Manila's hardware support. I am very interested in
>   smoothing out some of the networking complexities that make it
>   difficult to write drivers today.
> 
> I hope you will support my candidacy so I can continue to lead Manila
> towards eventual integration with OpenStack and realize my dream of
> shared file system management in the cloud.
> 
> Thank you,
> Ben Swartzlander
> Manila PTL, NetApp Architect
> 
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