[openstack-dev] Quantum PTL Candidacy

Gary Kotton gkotton at redhat.com
Thu Mar 7 07:43:33 UTC 2013


+1

I personally think that Mark will do a great job as PTL

On 03/04/2013 09:59 PM, Mark McClain wrote:
> Hi-
>
> I'm writing to announce my candidacy for the Quantum PTL.  The Quantum team has done a great job during the Grizzly cycle and I'm excited about what's ahead for the Havana cycle.  My work at DreamHost provides me a unique perspective of deploying Quantum at scale using both IPv4 and IPv6.  Working for a deployer also reinforces my desire for a vibrant, multi-vendor ecosystem within Quantum.
>
> Qualifications
> -------------------
>
> I am a Quantum core developer with 13 years of commercial Python development experience.  During my career, I have developed and deployed network applications based on the same underlying libraries as Quantum.  I started contributing to Quantum during the Essex development cycle.  In Folsom, I was promoted to core and was the primary developer of the DHCP implementation and Quantum's network namespace library.
>
> Grizzly Accomplishments
> ----------------------------------
>
> In the Grizzly cycle,  I worked both as a developer and a core team member.
>
> Grizzly Development:
> - Added Metadata Service Support to Quantum. (Quantum High Priority)
> - Developed database migration framework for Quantum to support all plugins. (Quantum Essential Priority)
> - Developed the LBaaS Agent Reference Implementation. (Quantum High Priority)
> - Added support for preserving NIC ordering when booting an instance attached to Quantum. (Nova High Priority Bug)
>
> Grizzly Core Team:
> - Second most active reviewer on the Quantum team.
> - Leader of the L3/IPAM/DHCP and Database sub teams.
> - Led triaging and sub-team assignment of bugs.
> - Assisted members of the community to further their understanding of Quantum and improve Python development best practices.
> - Interfaced with vendors new to Quantum and helped in the integration of their plugins.
> 	(core reviewer on 4 of the new vendor plugins included with Grizzly)
> - Worked to promote Quantum by presenting at regional OpenStack Meetups in both Atlanta and Los Angeles.
>
>
> Havana
> -----------
>
> During the Havana development cycle, I'd like to see the team focus on:
>
> - Continuing to grow the community of contributors and code reviewers.
> - Improving documentation for both deployers and developers.
> - Improving database resource modeling and extension management.
> - Collaborating with the Nova team to make Quantum the default network implementation.
> - Leveraging the service insertion framework to add new services (i.e. VPN).
> - Modularization of L2 and L3.
> - L3 improvements (ACLs, better IPv6, pluggable IPAM).
> - Integrating plugins from vendors new to the community including LBaaS plugins/drivers.
> - Further work to ease deploying at scale.
> - More efficient Quantum system testing and gating.
> - Supporting the Horizon team for better Quantum integration.
>
>
> I'd love the chance to be the PTL and work with the Quantum team to fill in gaps in this list during the summit in Portland.
>
> Thanks,
>
> mark
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