<div dir="ltr">Hi friends,<br><br><br>I’d like to raise my hand to send my candidacy for Fuel PTL position for next cycle.<br><br>Before I go forward with my candidacy, I will remind some facts we’ve been focuses as a team for last six months:<br><br>- Synchronisation with upstream modules. As a result we have a nice mechanist to synchronise upstream manifests<br><br>- Plugin system improvements. We extended our plugin system to allow to detach components. These changes creates a flexible mechanism for plugin developers.<br><br>- HA Improvements. Fuel team polished OCF scripts. QA engineers automated a lot of scenarios of our high availability architecture.<br><br>- Breaking Fuel to components. fuel-qa, fuel-agent and other components were moved to own repositories. That increased the velocity of component development.<br><br>- Fuel repositories. Fuel team implemented online repositories for distribution system it supports. This allowed to speed up the update delivery.<br><br>- Granular deployment. Instead of single ‘puppet apply’ fuel has a lot of small applies. This step speed up the development process as the developer doesn’t need to wait for whole deployment. He may apply only ‘required’ task. This flexibility gives a lot of room for plugin developers.<div><br><br>I believe there are some of the most important topics that our team should focus on:<br><br><p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)">With my deployer/operator hat on:</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><br></p>- Continue breaking Fuel monolith to components. This will allow to increase the velocity of product development. A good candidate is fuel-web. There are some other projects that can be moved to own repositories. <br><br>- Switching to fuel2 CLI. We should finally deprecate first version of CLI. fuel2 which is based on cliff should be a main tool for operator.<br><br>- Implement integration testing. Fuel is suffering from lack of integration testing. This means that state of processes are not ensured after deployment. Also, I am going to spend time to introduce code coverage metrics that will be used for analysing if coverage is getting better or not.<br><br>- CI improvements. Fuel is suffering from slow gates. ISO compilation, master node deployment, openstack deployment require more and more time. Reducing CI time will speed up the development process. I believe we should start with metrics so we’ll know how much time is required from code to deployed openstack. So, we’ll iteratively improve the bottle necks. In the end, Developer will require less time for CI.<br><br>- Improve collaboration with Puppet OpenStack community. This part was started as simple synchronisation of community manifests. A couple of cycles we contributed a lot of bug fixes. In the end, Fuel team implemented a nice mechanism that allows us to consume openstack-puppet modules without any modifications. However, we are still in process of migration. It should be done within next 6 months.<br><br>- Documentation improvements. I believe that documentation improvement will allow to minimise the barrier for new contributors. I am going to add more samples and details to our development documentation. A good sample is puppetlabs-stdlib [1]<br><br>[1] <a href="https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib">https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib</a><br><br>From other hand, Fuelers have a lot of knowledge in OpenStack which should be contributed back to upstream. I believe HA experience should contributed back to upstream.<br><br>- Lifecycle improvements. I am going to make a paradigm shift that Fuel is not only deployment tool. It’s very useful for lifecycle management.<br><br>With my leader hat on:<br><br>- Implementing lieutenant based model. Fuel Core developers are overloaded with reviews. Switching to lieutenant model should free up their time that can be spent on some R&D. [2]<br><br>[2] <a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org/msg62229.html">https://www.mail-archive.com/openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org/msg62229.html</a><br><br>- The last but not least. I’ll do all my the best to get Fuel under Big Tent.<br><br>I have many many things in my backlog. However, I believe the above are the most important. I believe that resolving these issues will speed up the velocity of development and make a cultural shift with many external contributions.<br><br>Sincerely yours,<br><br>Sergii Golovatiuk
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