Open Stack

Confirmed.

On 10/04/2013 01:28 PM, Zane Bitter wrote:
> I would like to propose my candidacy for the OpenStack Technical 
> Committee.
>
> I have been involved with OpenStack since we started the Heat project 
> in early 2012. I'm still a member of the Heat Core team and - 
> according to the semi-official statistics from Bitergia 
> (http://bitergia.com/public/reports/openstack/2013_04_grizzly/), at 
> least - among the more prolific patch contributors to OpenStack.
>
> Over the last year I have often worked closely with the TC, beginning 
> with helping to shepherd Heat through the incubation process. That 
> process involved developing a consensus on the scope of the OpenStack 
> project as a whole, and new procedures and definitions for incubating 
> projects in OpenStack. These changes paved the way for projects like 
> Trove, Marconi and Savanna to be incubated. I hope and expect that 
> more projects will continue to follow in these footsteps.
>
> I remain a reasonably frequent, if irregular, attendee at TC meetings 
> - occasionally as a proxy for the Heat PTL, but more often just 
> because I feel I can contribute. At this stage of its evolution, I 
> think the main responsibility of the TC is to grow the OpenStack 
> project in a responsible, sustainable way, so I take particular 
> interest in discussions around incubation and graduation of new 
> projects. Many new projects also have potential integration points 
> with Heat, so having folks from the Heat core team involved seems 
> valuable.
>
> I also think that the TC could do more to communicate its inner 
> workings (which are public but, I suspect, not widely read). While 
> most decisions eventually come down to a vote and the results are 
> reported, the most important work of the committee is not in voting 
> but in building consensus. I believe the community would benefit from 
> more insight into that process, and to that end I have started 
> blogging about important decisions of the TC - not only the outcomes, 
> but the reasons behind them and the issues that were considered along 
> the way:
>
> http://www.zerobanana.com/archive/2013/09/25#savanna-incubation
> http://www.zerobanana.com/archive/2013/09/04#icehouse-incubation
> http://www.zerobanana.com/archive/2013/08/07#non-relational-trove
>
> These posts appear on Planet OpenStack and are regularly featured in 
> the Community Newsletter, so I like to think that this is helping to 
> bring the workings of the TC in front of an audience who might not 
> otherwise be aware of them.
>
> If elected, I'd like to act as an informal point of contact for 
> projects that are already in incubation or are considering it, to help 
> explain the incubation process and the committee's expectations around 
> it.
>
> I consider myself fortunate that my employer permits me to spend 
> substantially all of my time on OpenStack, and that my colleagues and 
> I have a clear mandate to do what we consider best for the _entire_ 
> OpenStack community, because we know that we succeed only when 
> everyone succeeds.
>
> cheers,
> Zane.
>
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