Hi, I'm announcing my candidacy [1] for Placement PTL for Train. I've been working on the Placement service from the start. Helping it become a straightforward HTTP API for managing resources and their inventories, qualities, and use. I believe the primary focus of the project should be to fulfill the promise of the service — to make any variety of workload placement more reasonable-to-manage and correct-to-use — while keeping the straightforwardness. Just as important is making sure the project, being newly independent, settles in well. We will need time, attention and patience to find our way. What we do as a group should be decided by the group. The role of the PTL should be to help the group reach decisions smoothly and make sure the information needed to make decisions is shared broadly. To help understand how I think about Placement, here are some ideas on areas we may wish to focus (if we agree): * Get the house in order. Get bug and feature tracking systems in place and properly documented. Prepare the Forum and PTG. * Help other projects use Placement. Adding features to Placement is often easier than taking advantage of those new features. A lot of features exist that are not yet used to their full potential. * Attend to maintenance. Bug fixing, documentation, performance, refactoring, gate management, and keeping clients up to date need to have equal or greater attention than feature development. * Do what matters. Only add features that have clear customers and use cases, and have committed owners responsible for long-term maintenance. * Experiment. Contrary to the above, some of our time should be spent discovering what may matter in the future and sharing those discoveries: "Placement can help with that." Edge and multi-cloud related use cases have plenty of potential. * Document. Fill in the gaps in documentation for users and contributors. There's a lot of power in Placement and using it most effectively is not as well-documented as it could be. * Be welcoming, fun, nice, and encouraging to everyone. I hope my history with the project is solid evidence for my commitment to its success. I'm extremely proud of the work we've done and optimistic about the positive impact we will have in the future. Thanks. [1] https://review.openstack.org/641339 -- Chris Dent ٩◔̯◔۶ https://anticdent.org/ freenode: cdent tw: @anticdent