Hi all, I would like to announce my candidacy for Watcher PTL for the 2026.2 (Hibiscus) cycle. I started contributing to OpenStack during the Stein cycle in Manila project where I still assist with patch reviews, depending on the demand. Starting at 2025.1 release, I have been a Watcher contributor and maintainer, working with other contributors to revive the project and tackle many of the existing technical debts. In 2025.2 I started the effort to remove Eventlet from Watcher and in 2026.1, working as tact-sig, have been refactoring our CI, including our stable branches, to properly test patches in both check and gate pipelines. For the 2026.2 cycle, these are some of the priorities that I plan to focus on: Testing and CI/CD Coverage Improvements: * Support the implementation of new integration test in Watcher Dashboard * Expand test coverage for features, datasources, and/or integrations that remain untested in CI (e.g.: Audit Scope feature) * Start the effort on adding functional tests to Watcher * Continue improvements to check/gate pipelines for master and stable branches Scalability and Availability: * Support for osprofiler in Watcher to enable performance analysis at scale * Performance analysis in Action Plan parallelization OpenStack SDK Migration: * Support the migration effort started in 2026.1 to modernize the remaining integrations Eventlet Removal: * Make native threads the default thread mode in 2026.2 * Address performance gaps when running with native threading * Prepare for Eventlet deprecation in 2027.1 Thank you for your consideration. Douglas Viroel IRC: dviroel