Hi All,
I would like to announce my candidacy for OpenStack Technical Committee position.
First of all, thanks for giving me the opportunity as the technical committee in the previous term. It has been a learning process for me to understand the community and its technicality in a much broader way. There are a lot of things to do for me which I targetted last year but not finished.
I am fortunate to work in this community which help me to learn a lot on daily basis. While being a TC, I got more opportunities to talk and work with multiple projects and awesome contributors. Thank you everyone for your support and hardwork.
Along with my QA and Nova role, I tried to target broader and cross projects work as my TC responsibility. Migrating the OpenStack CI/CD from Xenial to Bionic, updating the python testing, a current ongoing community goal of IPv6 deployment and testing are the main work as part of this. Obviously it is not necessary to be a TC to do community-wide work but as TC it gives more understanding and actual benefits as overall.
For those who do not know, let me introduce myself. I have joined the OpenStack community since 2012 as operator and started as a full-time upstream contributor since 2014 during mid of Ice-House release. Currently, I am PTL for the QA Program since the Rocky cycle and active contributor in QA projects and Nova. Also, I have been randomly contributing in many other projects for example, to Tempest plugins for bug fix and tempest compatibility changes.
Along with that, I am actively involved in programs helping new contributors in OpenStack. 1. As a mentor in the Upstream Institute Training since Barcelona Summit (Oct 2016)[1]. 2. FirstContact SIG [2] to help new contributors to onboard in OpenStack. It's always a great experience to introduce OpenStack upstream workflow to new contributors and encourage them to start contribution. I feel that is very much needed in OpenStack. Hosting Upstream Training in Tokyo was a great experience.
TC direction has always been valuable and helps to keep the common standards in OpenStack. There are always room for improvements and so does in TC. In the last cycle, TC started an effort to ask the community about "what they expect from TC" but I think we did not get much feedback from the community. But these kind of effort are really great and I think making these practice in every cycle or year is needed.
This is my personal interest or opinion. As TC, which is there to set and govern the technical direction and common standard in OpenStack, I think we should also participate in doing more coding. Every TC members are from some projects and contribute a lot of code there. But as TC let's make a practice to do more coding for community-wide efforts. Getting the use case or common problem from users and try to fix them by themselves if no one there. There is no restriction of doing that currently but making this as practice will help the community.
Let me list down the area I want to work in my second TC term as well (few are continue from my last term target and few new):
* Share Project teams work for Common Goals: This is very important for me as TC and I tried to do this at some extent. I helped on OpenStack gate testing migration from Xenial to Bionic and also I am doing the IPv6 community goal in Train cycle. My strategy is always to do the things by myself if there is no one there instead of keeping things in the backlog. I will be continuing this effort as much as possible.
* Users/Operators and Developers interaction: Users and Operators are the most important part of any product and improving the users and developers interaction is much needed for any software. I still feel we are lacking in this area. There are few projects which get user feedback from time to time. Nova is great example to see many users or operators engaged with developers as direct contribution or meetup or ML etc. There are many other projects which are doing good in this area. But there are many projects who do not have much interaction or feedback from users. I would like to try a few ideas to improve this. Not just project-wise but as overall OpenStack.
* TC and Developers interaction: There is good amount of effort to improve the interaction between PTL and TC in last couple of years. Health tracker was a good example and now TC Liasion. I would like to extend this interaction to each developer, not just PTL. We need some practical mechanism to have frequent discussions between TC and developers. At this stage, I do not know how to do that but I will be working on this in my next term. One way is to help them in term of coding, user feedback etc and then encourage them to take part in TC engagements.
Thank you for reading and considerating my candidacy.
Refernce: * Blogs: https://ghanshyammann.com * Review: http://stackalytics.com/?release=all&metric=marks&user_id=ghanshyamm... * Commit: http://stackalytics.com/?release=all&metric=commits&user_id=ghanshya... * Foundation Profile: https://www.openstack.org/community/members/profile/6461 * IRC (Freenode): gmann
[1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OpenStack_Upstream_Institute_Occasions https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OpenStack_Upstream_Institute [2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/First_Contact_SIG
- Ghanshyam Mann (gmann)