[openstack-dev] [magnum][kolla] Stepping down as a Magnum core reviewer

Jay Lau jay.lau.513 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 29 11:55:49 UTC 2015


Hi Steve,

It is really a big loss to Magnum and thanks very much for your help in my
Magnum journey. Wish you good luck in Kolla!


On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 2:29 PM, 大塚元央 <yuanying at oeilvert.org> wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> I'm very sad about your stepping down from Magnum core. Without your help,
> I couldn't contribute to magnum project.
> But kolla is also fantastic project.
> I wish you the best of luck in kolla.
>
> Best regards.
> - Yuanying Otsuka
>
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 00:39 Baohua Yang <yangbaohua at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Really a pity!
>>
>> We need more resources on the container part in OpenStack indeed, as so
>> many new projects are just initiated.
>>
>> Community is not only about putting technologies together, but also
>> putting technical guys together.
>>
>> Happy to see so many guys in the Tokyo Summit this afternoon.
>>
>> Let's take care of the opportunities to make good communications with
>> each other.
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Steven Dake (stdake) <stdake at cisco.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey folks,
>>>
>>> It is with sadness that I find myself under the situation to have to
>>> write this message.  I have the privilege of being involved in two of the
>>> most successful and growing projects (Magnum, Kolla) in OpenStack.  I chose
>>> getting involved in two major initiatives on purpose, to see if I could do
>>> the job; to see if  I could deliver two major initiatives at the same
>>> time.  I also wanted it to be a length of time that was significant – 1+
>>> year.  I found indeed I was able to deliver both Magnum and Kolla, however,
>>> the impact on my personal life has not been ideal.
>>>
>>> The Magnum engineering team is truly a world class example of how an
>>> Open Source project should be constructed and organized.  I hope some young
>>> academic writes a case study on it some day but until then, my gratitude to
>>> the Magnum core reviewer team is warranted by the level of  their sheer
>>> commitment.
>>>
>>> I am officially focusing all of my energy on Kolla going forward.  The
>>> Kolla core team elected me as PTL (or more accurately didn’t elect anyone
>>> else;) and I really want to be effective for them, especially in what I
>>> feel is Kolla’s most critical phase of growth.
>>>
>>> I will continue to fight  for engineering resources for Magnum
>>> internally in Cisco.  Some of these have born fruit already including the
>>> Heat resources, the Horizon plugin, and of course the Networking plugin
>>> system.  I will also continue to support Magnum from a resources POV where
>>> I can do so (like the fedora image storage for example).  What I won’t be
>>> doing is reviewing Magnum code (serving as a gate), or likely making much
>>> technical contribution to Magnum in the future.  On the plus side I’ve
>>> replaced myself with many many more engineers from Cisco who should be much
>>> more productive combined then I could have been alone ;)
>>>
>>> Just to be clear, I am not abandoning Magnum because I dislike the
>>> people or the technology.  I think the people are fantastic! And the
>>> technology – well I helped design the entire architecture!  I am letting
>>> Magnum grow up without me as I have other children that need more direct
>>> attention.  I think this viewpoint shows trust in the core reviewer team,
>>> but feel free to make your own judgements ;)
>>>
>>> Finally I want to thank Perry Myers for influencing me to excel at
>>> multiple disciplines at once.  Without Perry as a role model, Magnum may
>>> have never happened (or would certainly be much different then it is
>>> today). Being a solid hybrid engineer has a long ramp up time and is really
>>> difficult, but also very rewarding.  The community has Perry to blame for
>>> that ;)
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> -steve
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Best wishes!
>> Baohua
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Thanks,

Jay Lau (Guangya Liu)
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