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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Sridhar Ramaswamy [mailto:srics.r@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 16, 2016 3:10 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [openstack-dev] [tacker] PTL candidacy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Tackers,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I would like to announce my candidacy to continue as Tacker PTL for the Ocata <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">dev cycle.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm a member of the Tacker community right from its Neutron ServiceVM days.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I actively participated in its transition into NFV Orchestration area and its <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">graduation into big-tent. Since becoming an official project our developer <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">community has grown and has more diverse [1].<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Newton was a packed cycle for us with many stellar achievements from the <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">community: VNF Scaling, Audit Events, VNF Forwarding Graph using Neutron<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Networking-SFC (we are almost there!) and External Alarm-based Monitoring<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">using Ceilometer. As usual tons of refactoring work happened to continue <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">to shed the "Neutronisms" in the project. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Along the way, we have become a better openstack citizen following best<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">practices like Reno release-notes, better release processes, and better<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">python3 support. We also expanded our core-team with three new members. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My vision for Tacker Ocata is along the following workstreams identified <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">in the recent weekly meeting. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">* Decomposed VIM drivers:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We need to enable a healthy ecosystem of VIM drivers beyond the current <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">default openstack VIM driver. Our user community has mixed hypervisor/cloud<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">technology in their deployments - with some existing pre-openstack systems <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(<a href="http://a.la">a.la</a>, VMware), some OpenStack based clouds, and, forward looking into <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Containers and public clouds. All this needs an easy to add VIM driver to<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">bolt underneath Tacker. Luckily our architecture is designed with this in<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">mind right from day one. We just need to make it easy (a) for developers to<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">bring in new VIM drivers and (b) for deployers to quickly add new VIM <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">capabilities without requiring a fork-lift upgrade of Tacker for every new <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">VIM type.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As part of this workstream, I'd work towards bringing in a Container VIM <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">type interfacing with Magnum / Zun.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Lifecycle Features:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">* Finish left over Newton features - VNFC and NSD <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">* Better integration with external EM / FCAPS systems<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">* Enable support for VNFs leveraging Neutron's latest VLAN aware VM feature <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Project maintenance:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * Doc: API reference guide<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * Pecan API framework<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * OSC support<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> * Finish python3x TC goal<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tons of fun things to do! However, Ocata is going to be a short cycle.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So, over next few weeks, I'll help to continue to groom these topics and<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">zoom in on those that are implementable in one dev cycle and clearly<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">identify some tracks that would carry over to the next cycle.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In Ocata, given an opportunity to serve as your PTL, I'll continue my role<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">as the "chief enabler" for this amazing community of developers that I'm so<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">proud to lead over the last two cycles.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">- Sridhar Ramaswamy (irc: sridhar_ram)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">[1] <a href="http://stackalytics.com/?module=tacker-group&metric=commits"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"helvetica neue","serif"">http://stackalytics.com/?module=tacker-group&metric=commits</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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