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<div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Hi everyone,<br><br>I would like to announce my PTL candidacy of the Quality Assurance for Rocky cycle.<br><br>I am glad and lucky to work in OpenStack community and would like to thank all the contributors who supported me to explore new things and ideas.<br>You might know me as gmann on IRC. I have joined the OpenStack since 2012 and 100% in upstream development since Ice-house release.<div>Currently i am contributing in QA, Nova & sometimes other projects too and a core member in QA projects like Tempest, Patrole etc. Along with that, I volunteered as mentor in the upstream institute and help to bring new contributor onboard.<br><br>QA program always play a key role in smooth upstream development and its quality. Also help production clouds for their testing and stability. QA responsibilities are always challenging and need lot of coordination and collaboration with each projects team. Till now we have been doing good job which is not just because of QA team but it's all together a combined effort from all projects.<br><br>Keep having regular ideas from different contributors to improve QA is phenomenal and I truly appreciate. Those ideas helped QA program to grow more in last couple of years. One example is extreme testing of OpenStack which is in discussion since previous summits/PTG with PoC and will add strength to QA program. other example is Patrole for RBAC testing which is really important for cloud security. My concentration as PTL will be to make good progress in extreme testing or any other new initiatives and make Patrole more stable and feature-rich so that we can see their tests running in respective projects gate.<br><br>We have plugins framework approach for Tempest/Devstack/Grenade and their plugins exist across almost all the OpenStack projects, I feel that collaboration with projects team is the key role of QA team. Even though, we have been helping and fixing plugins whenever needed but I would like to improve more in this area. My objective is to make each plugin owners to use the QA services and interfaces in more better and easy way. I would like to improve the relationship and coverage of help in every possible way.<br><br>Bug Triage and gate stability is the another important area for QA team. We have been doing good in bug triage since couple of years with target of 0 un-triaged bug. I would like to make sure we continue the focus in both area in next cycle too.<br><br>Along with that let me summarize me the areas I am planning to focus on in Rocky Cycle.<br><br>* Improvement and new Ideas in QA program as overall:<br> - Improve the testing coverage for key features.<br><br> - Improve QA process and tracking in more better way for planned deliverable.<br><br> - New ideas and their progress to convert into a running software.<br><br>* Collaboration and Help:<br> - Cross community collaboration on tool, idea sharing etc, opnfv, k8s are best example as of now.<br><br> - Help the other Projects' developments with test writing/improvement and gate stability<br><br> - Plugin improvement and helping them on daily basis by defining doable process and goal.<br><br>* Bring on more contributor and core reviewers.<br><br>Following are my contribution activities:<br>*<span> </span><a href="http://stackalytics.com/?release=all&metric=marks&user_id=ghanshyammann&project_type=all" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://stackalytics.com/?<wbr>release=all&metric=marks&user_<wbr>id=ghanshyammann&project_type=<wbr>all</a><br>*<span> </span><a href="http://stackalytics.com/?release=all&metric=commits&user_id=ghanshyammann&project_type=all" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://stackalytics.com/?<wbr>release=all&metric=commits&<wbr>user_id=ghanshyammann&project_<wbr>type=all</a><br><br>Thanks for reading and consideration my candidacy.</div><div><br></div><div>-gmann</div></div><div class="gmail-yj6qo" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">
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