<div dir="auto"><div>+1 !<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Carlos has been passionately working on manila since his first contact with OpenStack back in 2018. It is clear to me that he has stacked up a lot of experience to be an amazing PTL!<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">--<br>Rodrigo Barbieri<br>MSc Computer Scientist<br>OpenStack Manila Core Contributor<br>Federal University of São Carlos</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 14, 2022, 20:29 Carlos Silva <<a href="mailto:ces.eduardo98@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">ces.eduardo98@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_9064411313109380905m_-5551657593198580447m_4110698324844813836m_2446577235848228430gmail-docs-internal-guid-9558fb07-7fff-5a78-ee9a-57cf682f1629"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hello, Zorillas and dear stackers,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br>I would like to submit my candidacy to be the PTL of Manila for the Z cycle.<br><br>I have been a contributor to OpenStack since the Stein release. It has been an<br>awesome experience. During these years, I had the opportunity to contribute<br>with new features, fixes, reviews and other exciting enhancements for Manila.<br>I can tell you that I've faced thrilling challenges, and I learned a lot with<br>the community that made this journey enjoyable day after day. I'm tremendously<br>happy to see the state Manila is at. I'd like to keep the momentum for the<br>project by continuing to focus in some areas we have been focusing, but also<br>start tackling other issues:<br><br>- Continue increasing the number of contributors and active reviewers through<br>  mentoring and engaging them in the community, teaching the OpenStack way and<br>  making it collaboratively as we did in the past cycles, promoting hackatons,<br>  bug squashes and collaborative review sessions.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br>- Encouraging the involvement of Manila contributors in important<br>  programs/events such as GHC, Outreachy and the other opportunities we've been<br>  able to contribute in the past.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br>- Pursue the completion of the Manila implementation on the<br>  openstackclient/openstacksdk;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br>- Continue pushing Manila to cover the tech debt areas we identified over the<br>  past cycles;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br>- Enforcing maintainers to collaboratively cover the lack of documentation we<br>  have on third party CI setups for Manila, helping potential new vendors to<br>  quickly setup up their CI systems;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br>- Continue discussing with community and making the necessary enhancements for<br>  HA and Edge;<br><br>Thank you for your consideration!<br><br>Carlos da Silva<br>IRC: carloss<br></span></p></span></div>
</blockquote></div></div></div>