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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Hi sdake (or steak? whatever)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Thank you very much for your effort driving Kolla to good shape and building leadership pipeline.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Wish you can work with Kolla team as long as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Steven Dake (stdake) [mailto:stdake@cisco.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 13, 2016 12:05 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [openstack-dev] [kolla][ptl] Self non-nomination for Kolla PTL for Ocata cycle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">To the OpenStack Community,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">Consider this email my self non-nomination for PTL of Kolla for<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">the coming Ocata release. I let the team know in our IRC team meeting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">several months ago I was passing the on baton at the conclusion of Newton,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">but I thought the broader OpenStack community would appreciate the information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">I am super proud of what our tiny struggling community produced starting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">3 years ago with only 3 people to the strongly emergent system that is Kolla<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">with over 467 total contributors [1] since inception and closing in on 5,000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">commits today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">In my opinion, the Kolla community is well on its way to conquering the last<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">great challenge OpenStack faces: Making operational deployment management (ODM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">of OpenStack cloud platforms straight-forward, easy, and most importantly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">cost effective for the long term management of OpenStack.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">The original objective the Kolla community set out to accomplish, deploying<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">OpenStack in containers at 100 node scale has been achieved as proven by this<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">review [2]. In these 12 scenarios, we were able to deploy with 3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">controllers, 100 compute nodes, and 20 storage nodes using Ceph for all<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">storage and run rally as well as tempest against the deployment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">Kolla is _No_Longer_a_Toy_ and _has_not_been_ since Liberty 1.1.0.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">I have developed a strong leadership pipeline and expect several candidates<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">to self-nominate. I wish all of them the best in the future PTL elections.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">Finally, I would like to thank all of the folks that have supported Kolla’s<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">objectives. If I listed the folks individually this email would be far too<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">long, but you know who you are
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:black">J</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black"> Thank you for placing trust in my judgement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">It has been a pleasure to serve as your leader.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">-steak<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">[1]
<a href="http://stackalytics.com/report/contribution/kolla-group/2000">http://stackalytics.com/report/contribution/kolla-group/2000</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black">[2]
<a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/352101/">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/352101/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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