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<div class="">Thanks so much for your contributions to Magnum. You have played a critically important role for us, and we are saddened to hear the news of your departure. You are welcome to return at any time.</div>
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<div class="">Cheers,</div>
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<div class="">Adrian</div>
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<div class="">On Oct 26, 2015, at 9:17 AM, Steven Dake (stdake) <<a href="mailto:stdake@cisco.com" class="">stdake@cisco.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">It is with sadness that I find myself under the situation to have to write this message. I have the privilege of being involved in two of the most successful and growing projects (Magnum, Kolla) in OpenStack. I chose getting involved in two
major initiatives on purpose, to see if I could do the job; to see if I could deliver two major initiatives at the same time. I also wanted it to be a length of time that was significant – 1+ year. I found indeed I was able to deliver both Magnum and Kolla,
however, the impact on my personal life has not been ideal.</div>
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<div class="">The Magnum engineering team is truly a world class example of how an Open Source project should be constructed and organized. I hope some young academic writes a case study on it some day but until then, my gratitude to the Magnum core reviewer
team is warranted by the level of their sheer commitment.</div>
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<div class="">I am officially focusing all of my energy on Kolla going forward. The Kolla core team elected me as PTL (or more accurately didn’t elect anyone else;) and I really want to be effective for them, especially in what I feel is Kolla’s most critical
phase of growth.</div>
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<div class="">I will continue to fight for engineering resources for Magnum internally in Cisco. Some of these have born fruit already including the Heat resources, the Horizon plugin, and of course the Networking plugin system. I will also continue to support
Magnum from a resources POV where I can do so (like the fedora image storage for example). What I won’t be doing is reviewing Magnum code (serving as a gate), or likely making much technical contribution to Magnum in the future. On the plus side I’ve replaced
myself with many many more engineers from Cisco who should be much more productive combined then I could have been alone ;)</div>
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<div class="">Just to be clear, I am not abandoning Magnum because I dislike the people or the technology. I think the people are fantastic! And the technology – well I helped design the entire architecture! I am letting Magnum grow up without me as I have
other children that need more direct attention. I think this viewpoint shows trust in the core reviewer team, but feel free to make your own judgements ;)</div>
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<div class="">Finally I want to thank Perry Myers for influencing me to excel at multiple disciplines at once. Without Perry as a role model, Magnum may have never happened (or would certainly be much different then it is today). Being a solid hybrid engineer
has a long ramp up time and is really difficult, but also very rewarding. The community has Perry to blame for that ;)</div>
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<div class="">-steve</div>
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