<div dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-120bcd29-a3f9-ee5e-0cc5-e1ffebd3b730"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17px;white-space:pre-wrap">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 </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17px;white-space:pre-wrap">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: <a href="http://stackalytics.com/?release=havana&metric=commits&project_type=core">http://stackalytics.com/?release=havana&metric=commits&project_type=core</a>
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.
<br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17px;white-space:pre-wrap">Next Monday, in collaboration with our colleagues from Bluehost and IBM, we are going to release the first version of Rally. </span></font></p>
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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 </span></font><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17px;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial"><a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Rally">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Rally</a></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17px;white-space:pre-wrap">2. Rally Launchpad </span></font><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17px;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial"><a href="https://launchpad.net/rally">https://launchpad.net/rally</a></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17px;white-space:pre-wrap">3. Example of Rally results: <a href="https://docs.google.com/a/mirantis.com/file/d/0B7XIUFtx6EISTEpPb0tRSTFIaFk/edit?usp=drive_web">https://docs.google.com/a/mirantis.com/file/d/0B7XIUFtx6EISTEpPb0tRSTFIaFk/edit?usp=drive_web</a>
3. My Launchpad <a href="https://launchpad.net/~boris-42">https://launchpad.net/~boris-42</a>
4. My Contribution <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/q/owner:boris-42+status:merged,n,z">https://review.openstack.org/#/q/owner:boris-42+status:merged,n,z</a>
5. My Contribution statistics: <a href="http://stackalytics.com/?release=all&metric=commits&project_type=All&user_id=boris-42">http://stackalytics.com/?release=all&metric=commits&project_type=All&user_id=boris-42</a>
<br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:17px;white-space:pre-wrap">Best regards,
Boris Pavlovic
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Mirantis Inc. </span><br></font></p></span></div>