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<div>Thanks you very much for the great job you did. Your cool while doing a tough job was noteworthy.</div>
<div>You will be missed.</div>
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<div>-Shiv</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Kyle Mestery <<a href="mailto:mestery@mestery.com">mestery@mestery.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>OpenStack List <<a href="mailto:openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org">openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Friday, September 11, 2015 at 2:12 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>OpenStack List <<a href="mailto:openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org">openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[openstack-dev] [neutron] PTL Non-Candidacy<br>
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<div>I'm writing to let everyone know that I do not plan to run for Neutron PTL for a fourth cycle. Being a PTL is a rewarding but difficult job, as Morgan recently put it in his non-candidacy email [1]. But it goes further than that for me. As Flavio put it
in his post about "Being a PTL" [2], it's a full time job. In the case of Neutron, it's more than a full time job, it's literally an always on job.<br>
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I've tried really hard over my three cycles as PTL to build a stronger web of trust so the project can grow, and I feel that's been accomplished. We have a strong bench of future PTLs and leaders ready to go, I'm excited to watch them lead and help them in
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As was said by Zane in a recent email [3], while Heat may have pioneered the concept of rotating PTL duties with each cycle, I'd like to highly encourage Neutron and other projects to do the same. Having a deep bench of leaders supporting each other is important
for the future of all projects.<br>
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See you all in Tokyo!<br>
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Kyle<br>
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[1] <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-September/074157.html">
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-September/074157.html</a><br>
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<div>[1] <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-September/073986.html">
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-September/073986.html</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-September/074242.html">
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-September/074242.html</a><br>
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