Hi All, I would like to announce my candidacy for PTL of the Cinder project for the 2024.2 cycle. I think Rajat has done an excellent job serving the project and I would like to carry existing efforts forward while continuing to focus maintaining a healthy and productive community around the Cinder project. I've been contributing to the Cinder project in varying capacity for close to 10 years. I've worked on migration and replication at the driver layer, mentored new contributors from the outreachy project, and provided bug fixes and reviews wherever possible. I'm a core reviewer and also a stable core. I have served as the release liaison for the last 2 cycles and run a weekly bug squashing meeting to help maintain our launchpad backog. We continue to face review bandwidth pressure. Emphasis should be placed on encouraging contributors to do code reviews and to recognize the efforts of those currently participating. There are several potential core reviewers and I feel that empowering the community is one way to increase engagement and the quality of our releases. 3rd party CI continues to be crucial resource for evaluating driver-specific changes. Maintaining good 3rd party CI for the drivers supported in Cinder by providing clear documentation and requirements will be a focus. Additionally, we have room for improvement in our backup and restore use case. My goal is to improve the entire backup/restore situation so that it can be leveraged by users in production environments. Our customers are using 3rd party backup products to backup workloads and volumes and I think this is one are where improvements here can directly benefit users. In summary, I would like to continue the efforts made by Rajat and continue to focus the areas most in need of attention for the 2024.2 cycle. I will do my best to make a positive contribution to both the technical and community aspects of Cinder during my time as PTL. Thank you for your consideration. -- Jon Bernard (jbernard)