Hi All,
I would like to announce my candidacy for PTL of the Cinder project for the Z cycle.
Since this is the first time I'm proposing my candidacy, I would like to briefly introduce myself. I started contributing to OpenStack back in the Queens release (although not very actively) and started focusing on the Cinder project in the Rocky release. I became a core reviewer in Cinder in the mid of the Stein release and since then I've been actively contributing to the Cinder project in terms of features, bug fixes, reviews etc. I'm also a part of Cinder's core security group and a stable core and currently serving as release liaison for Cinder for the past 3 releases.
Coming to the focus for the Z release, Cinder receives an abundance of commits every cycle in terms of new drivers, driver features, core cinder features, bug fixes, improvements etc and we've always faced a shortage in reviews. It is not due to fewer people working actively but more of a priority issue in their respective roles. I would like to encourage contributors to discuss with their managers about the importance of code review in opensource and how it is helpful for the community and the individuals as well.
Apart from that, I would like to revisit the security issues backlog since that hasn't been looked upon in quite some time and if we encounter something that needs attention, we can also hold core security meetings from time to time to address the issues.
We are also getting active driver contributions every cycle which is a good thing, but sadly the driver implementation patches seem to have a lot of mistakes which are well documented in the driver contribution docs and something I would like to highlight in the Z PTG (as most of the vendors join it and propose their driver ideas). Again, the documentation is not perfect as we discussed in Yoga PTG. Following up upon this and improving it is another focus I support for Cinder.
Lastly, I would like to put more emphasis upon the 3rd Party CI compliance check which we haven't done in a while and it would be good to know how many vendors are actually maintaining their CI consistently.
There are some new ideas started by Brian in the past releases which I would like to continue. Some examples include the last cinder meeting being a video+IRC meeting and every third Friday of the month, we have a festival of XS reviews which significantly reduced the backlog of open patches.
In the end, I would like to say, I want to continue the good trends set in the Cinder community and improve on certain areas where there is not much attention being given. I will do my best to address the above mentioned items during my time as PTL. Thanks for considering me.
Rajat Dhasmana (whoami-rajat)