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Thanks, Flavio. You did a great job. Many thanks for all your hard work 
to make those happen.

On 11/09/15 23:51, Flavio Percoco wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm sending this email to announce that I wont be running for Zaqar's
> PTL position this cycle.
>
> I've been Zaqar's PTL for two cycles and I believe it is time for me
> to move on. More importantly, I believe it's time for this great,
> still small, project to be led by someone else. The reasons behind
> this belief have nothing to do with neither the previous state of the
> project or even its current success story. If anything, my current
> decision of not running has everything to do with the project's
> current growth.
>
> As many of you know, Zaqar (formerly known as Marconi) went through
> many ups and downs. From great discussions and growth attempts to
> almost being shutdown[0]. This has taugh me a lot but more
> importantly, it's made the team stronger and it's cleared the team's
> goals and path. And to prove that, let me share some of the success
> stories the team has had since Vancouver:
>
> 3 great milestones
> ==================
>
> Let me start by sharing the progress the project has made code-wise.
> While it may not be the most important for many people, I believe it's
> extremly valuable for the project. The reason for this being that
> every single member of this team is not a full-time Zaqar developer.
> That means, every single member of this team has a different full-time
> responsibility and every contribution made to the project has been
> made in their spare working (or free) time. From amazing Outreachy
> mentees (we've mentored participants of the Outrechy program since
> cycle 1) to great contributors from other projects in OpenStack.
>
> In milestone #1[1], we closed several bugs while we discussed the
> features that we wanted to work on during Liberty. In milestone #2[1],
> some of the features we wanted to have in Liberty started to land and
> several bugs were fixed as well. In milestone #3, many bugs were fixed
> due to a heavy testing session. But it doesn't end there. In RC1[4], 3
> FFE were granted - not carelessly, FWIW - to complete all the work
> we've planned for Liberty and, of course, more bug fixes.
>
> We now even have a websocket example in the code base... ZOMG!
>
> In addition to the above, the client library has kept moving forward
> and it's being aligned with the current, maintained, API. This
> progress just makes me happy and happier. Keep reading and you'll know
> why.
>
> Adoption by other projects
> ==========================
>
> If you read the call for adoption thread[0], you probably know how
> important that was for the project to move forward. After many
> discussions in Vancouver, on IRC, conferences, mailing lists, pigeons,
> telegrams, etc. projects started to see[5] the different use-cases for
> Zaqar and we started talking about implementations and steps forward.
> One good example of this is Heat's use of Zaqar for
> software-config[6], which was worked on and implemented.
>
> Things didn't stop there on this front. Other projects, like Sahara,
> are also considering using Zaqar to communicate with guests agents.
> While this is under discussion on Sahara's side, the required features
> for it to happen and be more secure have been implemented in Zaqar[7].
> Other interesting discussions are also on-going that might help with
> Zaqar's adoption[8].
>
> That said, I believe one of the works I'm most excited about right now
> is the puppet-zaqar project, which will make it simpler for
> deployments based on puppet to, well, deploy zaqar[9].
>
> Community Growth
> ================
>
> None of the above would have been possible without a great community
> and especially without growing it. I'm not talking about the core
> reviewers team growth - although we did have an addition[10] - but the
> growth of the community accross OpenStack. Folks from other teams -
> OpenStack Puppet, Sahara, Heat, Trove, cross-project efforts - have
> joined the efforts of pushing Zaqar forward in different ways (like
> the ones I've mentioned before).
>
> Therefore, I owe a huge THANK YOU to each and one of these people that
> helped making this progress possible.
>
> Oh God, please, stop talking
> ============================
>
> Sure, fine! But before I do that, let me share why I've said all the
> above.
>
> The above is not to show off what the team has accomplished. It's
> definitely not to take any credits whatsoever. It's to show exactly
> why the team needs a new PTL.
>
> I believe PTLs should rotate every 2 cycles (if not every cycle). I've
> been the PTL for 2 cycles (or probably even more) and it's time for
> the vision and efforts of other folks to jump in. It's time for folks
> with more OPs knowledge than me to help making Zaqar more
> "maintainable". It's time for new technical issues to come up and for
> us as a community to work together on achieving those. More
> cross-project collaboration, more APIs improvement, more user stories
> is what Zaqar needs right now and I believe there are very capable
> folks in Zaqar's team that would be perfect for this task.
>
> One thing I'd like the whole team to put some efforts on, regardless
> what technical decisions will be taken, is on increasing the diversity
> of the project. Zaqar is not as diverse[11] (company wise) as I'd like
> that worries me A LOT. Growth will, hopefully, bring more people and
> reaching out to other communities remain something important.
>
> It's been an honor to serve as Zaqar's PTL and it'll be an honor for
> me to contribute to the next PTL's future plans and leads.
>
> Sincerely,
> Flavio
>
> P.S: #openstack-zaqar remains the funiest channel ever, just sayin'.
>
> [0] 
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-April/061967.html
> [1] https://launchpad.net/zaqar/+milestone/liberty-1
> [2] https://launchpad.net/zaqar/+milestone/liberty-2
> [3] https://launchpad.net/zaqar/+milestone/liberty-3
> [4] https://launchpad.net/zaqar/+milestone/liberty-rc1
> [5] 
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-May/064739.html
> [6] 
> https://github.com/openstack/heat-specs/blob/master/specs/kilo/software-config-zaqar.rst
> [7] 
> http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/zaqar-specs/specs/liberty/pre-signed-url.html
> [8] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/185822/
> [9] https://github.com/openstack/puppet-zaqar
> [10] 
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-August/072191.html
> [11] http://stackalytics.com/?module=zaqar-group
>
>
>
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