[openstack-dev] Keystone PTL Candidacy

Monty Taylor mordred at inaugust.com
Tue Mar 5 18:42:32 UTC 2013


I confirm that Dolph is eligible to be a PTL candidate for keystone.

On 03/05/2013 11:06 AM, Dolph Mathews wrote:
> After contributing to keystone regularly since mid-diablo, I think it's
> time to offer myself as a candidate for PTL.
> 
> I've consistently been the most active contributor to keystone for the
> past 4 releases [1], and regularly appear as one of the top contributors
> to OpenStack overall [2][3]. I imagine I'm one of the most frequent code
> reviewers to boot. Allow me to explain my motivation...
> 
> As the architectural foundation of OpenStack, keystone tends to be the
> first project that users work with, and we either win them or lose them
> in the process... often before they get a chance to play with the power
> of OpenStack. As a result, my focus is generally on user experience at
> all levels -- intuitive API's, solid docs, readable code, helpful error
> messages on failure, well tested code paths, etc. I believe that getting
> these things right is what makes or breaks a project in terms of
> community contributions and forward momentum. We have to keep winning
> over new users.
> 
> With a long list of supporters & contributors, I spent the majority of
> Folsom and Grizzly development refreshing the Identity API [4] and it's
> client and server side implementations. As a result, we've been able to
> introduce an impressive number of awesome API-level features including
> domains, user groups, user-to-user delegation, user impersonation, and
> multifactor authentication (a big thank you to everyone!).
> 
> With so many varied use cases, there's always room for improvement in
> keystone and I'm always looking forward to making that happen.. Thanks
> for your support!
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/openstack/keystone/contributors
> [2]: https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg17006.html
> [3]: https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg09650.html
> [4]: https://github.com/openstack/identity-api/blob/master/openstack-identity-api/src/markdown/identity-api-v3.md
> 
> -Dolph
> 
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