<div dir="ltr">Hi All,<div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I'd like to announce my candidacy for the Technical Committee election.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

</div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">About Me</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">--------------</span></div>

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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I work full time on OpenStack on behalf of HP. And am part of nova-core, nova-specs-core, hacking-core and elastic-recheck-core. Some of my more visible accomplishments outside my involvement in nova are:</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Creating hacking [0][1] to more efficiently use reviewers time by automating the tedious job of checking style. </span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Starting elastic-recheck [2][3] to help us better track and triage race conditions. </span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Helping Unwedge the gate right before the release of Havana [4].</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Writing several gating jobs: large-ops, neutron-large-ops and nova’s partial-ncpu. partial-ncpu is nova’s gating test to make sure we support  doing a rolling upgrade of compute nodes (so a Havana nova-compute should work with an Icehouse cloud).</span></p>

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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">My Platform</span></p>

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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> <p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:14.949999809265137px;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="Arial">I think the Icehouse TC has done a wonderful job and has an impressive list of accomplishments [4], and I would like to see the TC do more of the same at an accelerated pace. Given the scale of OpenStack today I don’t think sitting on the TC should be a two hour a week job. Note: I am not pushing for more frequent meetings, but rather more ‘homework.’  Two hours a week was fine when OpenStack had 3 integrated projects, but not so much now that we are at 11 integrated projects.

Besides just doing more of the same, here are a few specific areas where I think the TC can be improved:<p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:14.949999809265137px;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="Arial">- Make the mid-cycle incubation status reviews [6] more thorough, and extend them to projects that are planning on filing for incubation.  We don’t want a repeat of what happened this past cycle where a project passed its mid-cycle incubation status review [6], only to hit significant issues in its graduation request [7].

- TC members who are not too familiar with the project in question should do the gap analysis instead of a member of that project. A fresh pair of eyes is always a good thing, and this will help increase cross project feedback.</font></span><span style="line-height:1.15;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">

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<font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you for your consideration.</span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br>

</span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Best,</span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Joe</span></font></p>

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<span style="line-height:14.949999809265137px">[0] <a href="http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-dev/hacking">http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-dev/hacking</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">

<span style="line-height:14.949999809265137px">[1] <a href="http://docs.openstack.org/developer/hacking/">http://docs.openstack.org/developer/hacking/</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="line-height:14.949999809265137px">[2] <a href="http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/elastic-recheck/">http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/elastic-recheck/</a> </span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="line-height:14.949999809265137px">[3] <a href="http://status.openstack.org/elastic-recheck/">http://status.openstack.org/elastic-recheck/</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">

<span style="line-height:14.949999809265137px">[4] <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-November/020280.html">http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-November/020280.html</a></span></p>

<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">[5] <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-April/032576.html">http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-April/032576.html</a>

[6] <a href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/tc/2014/tc.2014-01-21-20.03.html">http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/tc/2014/tc.2014-01-21-20.03.html</a> 

[7] <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-March/030638.html">http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-March/030638.html</a> </span></font></span></div></span></div></div>