Hello Takashi,

Thank for all your work and effort into this! I would love to see you run for
another cycle.

Best regards
Tobias

> On 30 Aug 2022, at 08:38, Takashi Kajinami <tkajinam@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
> I'd like to announce my candidacy for the PTL role in Puppet OpenStack, to
> continue my PTL role for the Antelope cycle.
>
> Over the past two cycles, we've successfully improved feature coverage,
> platform coverage and simplicity of our modules. I'd like to list up a few
> items which would be our priorities during the next cycle.
>
> * Add Ubuntu 22.04 support
> This would be the next major change after we've completed implementation of
> CentOS 9 Stream support. We already adapted to Ruby 3 as part of C9S support
> so I'm not aware of any huge challenges at this moment.
>
> * Complete migration to Puppet 7
> Currently our modules still support both Puppet 6 and 7. However once we
> complete migration to Ubuntu 22.04, we complete migration from Ruby 2.x to 3.x.
> As Puppet officially supports Ruby 3.x since 7.7, this means we no longer
> maintain test coverage with Puppet 6. It's time to consider again complete
> migration to Puppet 7.
>
> * Improve scenario/component coverage by CI
> During Zed cycle we added OVN and Octavia to the integration jobs. We'll review
> a few remaining modules like Manila and will continue extending the component
> coverage.
>
> * Review unmaintained/unused modules
> In Puppet OpenStack projects we maintain number of modules to support multiple
> OpenStack components. However, some modules have not been really active and
> attracted no interest. In the past few cycles we have retired several modules
> but I'd like to continue reviewing our modules to consider retiring inactive ones.
>
> * Keep each module up to date and simple
> It's always important that we add support for the new features/parameters
> timely so that users can leverage the new capability via our modules.
>
>
> Thank you for your consideration.
>
> Thank you,
> Takashi