<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My name is Renat Akhmerov. I decided to run for Mistral PTL for Newton release cycle.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I've been working on the project since its initiation. I've been driving it, designing</div><div class="">architecture and did a lot of coding, especially in the first year. I try to review all</div><div class="">the patches coming in. I've also been presenting the project at lots of conferences</div><div class="">including OpenStack summits for more than two years. I think we've done a great work</div><div class="">together with the team to put Mistral to where it is now. Thanks to everyone who worked</div><div class="">with us. Special thanks to folks from Mirantis, StackStorm, Huawei, Catalyst IT, Nokia,</div><div class="">Alcatel-Lucent, 99Cloud, RedHat and Nec.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mitaka was really the first cycle when I felt huge growth of interest to the project</div><div class="">in the community. The number of emails and people coming to our IRC channel became</div><div class="">really impressive. I'm now completely convinced that what we're doing is demanded.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As far as technical contribution, I should admit that Mitaka was not the best cycle</div><div class="">for us. And I'm taking responsibility for it. I didn't have a chance to work on the</div><div class="">project significant part of my time, hence not so many things were done in the project</div><div class="">from what we planned in Tokyo. Despite that, we were able to fix a number of important</div><div class="">issues and added several important new features as "Resource sharing between tenants"</div><div class="">and new actions for some of the OpenStack projects that we didn't support: Barbican,</div><div class="">Swift, Trove etc. Now Mistral is integrated natively with almost all core OpenStack</div><div class="">services. As far as my personal contribution, I again have an opportunity to spend</div><div class="">significant time working on Mistral. I'm still passionate about the technology we're</div><div class="">making, have lots of ideas that I'm willing to get implemented and I feel hunger to</div><div class="">work on all of that. I'm still seeing that one of the most important pieces of work</div><div class="">is making Mistral work in HA mode reliably. We now have a certain plan for it and</div><div class="">started working on its implementation.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Other things that I'd love to address during the Newton cycle are:</div><div class="">* Implement RESTful API and CLI of version 3 that would fix all visible downsides of</div><div class=""> version 2</div><div class="">* Significantly improve Mistral usability when using both CLI and UI</div><div class="">* Significantly improve Mistral documentation</div><div class="">* Provide clear guidance and tooling for developing custom actions</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What I am already proud of is the workflow language that we've designed. I don't</div><div class="">see many ways how we should be improving it. In my opinion, it balances simplicity</div><div class="">with power very well and for that reason it is perceived by users very positively.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My goal is still to build a really useful and beutiful technology.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The corresponding commit to openstack/election repo is [1].</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">[1] <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/292815/1" class="">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/292815/1</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
<div class="">Renat Akhmerov</div><div class="">@ Mirantis Inc.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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