Hello everyone, I would like to announce my candidacy for Cinder PTL for the Victoria cycle. Given that I'm the current PTL, you already have a pretty good idea of what things will be like on the Cinder project with me in that role and whether or not it would be a good idea for me to continue. So instead of bribing you with campaign promises, I'd like to take this opportunity to look at the current state of the project and what things look like for the Victoria cycle. The Cinder community remained fairly stable from Train to Ussuri, which was great in these downsizing times. Some of the drivers that were marked 'unsupported' for the Train release have been restored to 'supported' status during the Ussuri cycle. Some, however, have not. We relaxed the removal policy to give vendors more time to address CI issues and to make it easier for operators using such drivers. We'll see during the Victoria cycle whether this actually encourages the vendors of drivers that have been declared 'unsupported' to get their third-party CIs running again and having the drivers reinstated. During Ussuri, the team gained more testing expertise, particularly around creating more scenario tests, though this hasn't been reflected yet in committed code. As we get more scenario tests into the cinder-tempest-plugin, we'll be able to catch more bugs that affect multiple drivers, whereas now what mostly happens is that driver maintainers fix these piecemeal as they become aware that they affect their drivers. Thus, increasing the scnario test coverage will continue to be a focus in Victoria. The virtual PTG that we held as a follow-up to the Shanghai PTG was productive, as were the two virtual mid-cycle meetings we had this cycle. So I think we're in good shape to make the most of the fully virtual Victoria PTG. I think as a community, we're all doing good work on the Cinder project. We've got cinderlib to keep us relevant in a container-oriented world, and I think we're doing a solid job keeping the software stable and reliable. I'm sure the driver maintainers would like to see faster review turnaround (as would we all), so it will be a priority early in the cycle to identify contributors interested in becoming members of the cinder-core team and mentoring them along so that we can eventually increase the size of the core team during the cycle. In short, things are good, they could be better, and I'd like the opportunity to help drive the project as Victoria PTL. Thank you for your consideration, Brian Rosmaita (rosmaita)