Hey Zorillas and other interested Stackers,
I took over as Manila PTL prior to the Ussuri cycle and have had fun running the project for 5 cycles. The itch for change hasn't subsided. So, I'd love to hand off the PTL baton and go back to being a maintainer (or whatever else you'll let my pompous behind claim to be). Despair not though, there's someone that has bright ideas and energy to enhance this role that intends to nominate themselves to lead us through the Zorilla (Zed) cycle!
I'm very proud that I had your encouragement and support for the past ~three years. We innovated and incorporated some fun practices that held the community together and grew it over time. We chipped away at tech debt in an organized fashion, created focus teams, added half a dozen core reviewers, mentored 20 (!) interns, squashed bugs, put together hackfests, collaborated on reviews and somehow made the pandemic-caused virtual project team gatherings fun as well. We will do so much more of this with the new PTL and the hyper-charged zorilla spirit :D So I'm very excited.
Thank you for your support!
-- Goutham Pacha Ravi