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<div>My Peers,</div>
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<div>Liberty for Kolla was fantastically successful! We held our first in person mid-cycle and entered the Big Tent governance process. We successfully released 3 milestone releases within 3 days of deadline with increasing functionality. I believe our Kolla
release of rc1 on September 25th will deliver on the promises I made in my PTL candidacy which was to deliver a container deployment system that could deploy 100 node OpenStack cluster with controller, compute, storage and networking roles. I wouldn’t have
been able to do it alone, or even with the small team we had heading into Liberty. A big thank you goes out to our community for your strong commitment to our success! </div>
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<div>A leader’s job is to take the community on the trip they want to go on. I’ve done a good job of balancing the various interests in Kolla to lead us to where I think people wanted us to be at the end of the cycle. I think we are a bit ahead on all measures
except functional testing.</div>
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<div>For Liberty I wish to directly contribute to or facilitate the following actions:</div>
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<li>Continue to encourage diversity in our Community.</li><li>Obtain real-world production deployments using Kolla.</li><li>Grow out community of developers, reviewers, and operators.</li><li>Execute functional testing of Kolla deployment by using a baby-steps strategy, first executing AIO, then two nodes, growing to ~5 node multi-node deployments.</li><li>Containerize and deliver all Big Tent server projects with our Ansible deployment tooling.</li><li>Radically improve our documentation to match the standards set by mature OpenStack Big Tent projects.</li><li>Make the image building and functional gating voting(!) by delivering mirrors of our upstream software dependencies internally in OpenStack Infrastructure.</li><li>Continue to provide excellent project management and improve our processes so that we may grow to use the release_managed[2] tag in the N release.</li></ul>
<div>I am pleased to accept your vote and serve as your PTL for the Mitaka release cycle. As a Community I am certain we can make Mitaka as successful as Liberty!</div>
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<div>Regards</div>
<div>-steve</div>
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<div>[1] <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-March/058930.html">http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-March/058930.html</a></div>
<div>[2] <a href="https://github.com/openstack/governance/blob/master/reference/tags/release_managed.rst">https://github.com/openstack/governance/blob/master/reference/tags/release_managed.rst</a></div>
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