<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Hello everyone!</span><span class="" style="display:block;height:0.5rem;color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><i class="" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:baseline;height:0px;font-size:0px;color:transparent;float:left;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat"><br style=""></i></span><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">I'd like to announce my candidacy for PTL position of the Data</span><br style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Processing program (Sahara).</span><span class="" style="display:block;height:0.5rem;color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><i class="" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:baseline;height:0px;font-size:0px;color:transparent;float:left;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat"><br style=""></i></span><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">I'm working on Sahara project since Juno release, and since Mitaka release</span><br style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">I'm the member of the Sahara core reviewer team.</span><span class="" style="display:block;height:0.5rem;color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><i class="" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:baseline;height:0px;font-size:0px;color:transparent;float:left;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat"><br style=""></i></span><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">In Mitaka release Sahara team did the great job:</span><span class="" style="display:block;height:0.5rem;color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><i class="" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:baseline;height:0px;font-size:0px;color:transparent;float:left;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat"><br style=""></i></span><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">* important improvements are done in Sahara Dashboard side;</span><br style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">* sahara scenario framework was moved outside of Sahara repository;</span><br style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">* finally Sahara moved to use Heat as a default provisioning engine;</span><br style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">* secret storage improved using castellan implementation;</span><br style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">* OpenStack Client integration added;</span><br style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">* health checks for clusters and so on.</span><span class="" style="display:block;height:0.5rem;color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><i class="" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:baseline;height:0px;font-size:0px;color:transparent;float:left;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat"><br style=""></i></span><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Also Sahara community continues growing, new folks from Intel, Mirantis,</span><br style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Red Hat and other companies joined us and it's great! New folks from Outreachy program</span><br style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">joined us, and it's also important!</span><span class="" style="display:block;height:0.5rem;color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><i class="" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:baseline;height:0px;font-size:0px;color:transparent;float:left;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat"><br style=""></i></span><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">For Newton cycle our team should keep going:</span><br style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><br style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">* continue improvements in our user interface;</span><br style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">* make important features in security for Sahara itself and in Hadoop;</span><br style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">* more flexible and stable CI, improve our integration tests coverage;</span><br style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">* continue efforts in implementing API v2;</span><br style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">* collect user experience about Sahara and start implementing features</span><br style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">  based on this experience;</span><br style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">* prepare new tasks for the Outreachy program, so that new folks who</span><br style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">  join us will have an interesting task to pick up.</span><span class="" style="display:block;height:0.5rem;color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><i class="" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:baseline;height:0px;font-size:0px;color:transparent;float:left;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat"><br style=""></i></span><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">My focus as a PTL will be coordination of all work above, managing</span><br style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Sahara releases, and tracking all activities related to new features</span><br style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">in Sahara.</span><span class="" style="display:block;height:0.5rem;color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><i class="" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:baseline;height:0px;font-size:0px;color:transparent;float:left;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat"><br style=""></i></span><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Also I'd like to thank the previous Sahara PTL Sergey Lukjanov, who did</span><br style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">the great job in managing and improving Sahara! I think that together with</span><br style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Sahara team we can make Newton release great as we did in the previous</span><br style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">release cycles.</span><span class="" style="display:block;height:0.5rem;color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><i class="" style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:baseline;height:0px;font-size:0px;color:transparent;float:left;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat"><br style=""></i></span><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Best regards, Vitaly Gridnev</span><br style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">e-mail: </span><a href="mailto:vgridnev@mirantis.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(42,128,185);text-decoration:none;font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">vgridnev@mirantis.com</a><br style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">IRC: </span><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,243,184);color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">vgridnev</span><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">, Launchpad: </span><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,243,184);color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">vgridnev</span><span style="color:rgb(44,45,48);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px">.</span><br clear="all"><div><br></div>
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