Greetings Zorillas & other Stackers, This is my candidacy to be the PTL for the OpenStack Manila team through the Xena cycle. I've had the great privilege of leading this unique team for the past three releases. During this time, we've had an enviable momentum and some fantastic achievements while building impactful software. I have enjoyed being a catalyst and an advocate for this motivated team, and I wish to do this a bit longer. In Wallaby, we harnessed our diverse strengths to mentor five new contributors through our student project internships, two of who were sponsored through Outreachy funding. They have all expressed their desire to become long term contributors. I am very proud of the manila team for their sincerity and enthusiasm in aiding new Stackers. I seek to further this outreach through the Xena release cycle. Testing and project quality will remain a top personal priority. The team was able to get new interop guidelines published last cycle, and we will focus on adding more test coverage under these guidelines, alongside addressing test gaps and innovating on more test scenarios. We have continued to implement the pro-active backport policy to get bug fixes back to stable branches and request timely releases of these stable branches. In the Xena cycle, I intend to codify this policy based on our learning and spread the release responsibility and know-how around the team. We split project maintenance into sub-teams during the Wallaby cycle, and recruited sub-team core reviewers. An increase in focus and velocity ensued across project code repositories. I intend to propose more additions to these sub-teams in the Xena cycle and encourage more contributors to take on project maintenance responsibilities. So, if you will have me, I wish to serve you through Xena and get things done. Thank you for your support, Goutham Pacha Ravi <gouthampravi@gmail.com> IRC: gouthamr