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Mark has done a phenomenal job as Neutron PTL


On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Mark McClain <mark.mcclain at dreamhost.com>wrote:

>
> Hi-
>
> I writing to announce my candidacy for the OpenStack Networking (Neutron)
> PTL.
>
> I am the current Neutron PTL.  Our team continued to grow during the
> Havana cycle and both existing and new contributors worked to deliver
> double the number of blueprints than the previous release.  Our vibrant
> ecosystem makes me excited for the future of Neutron and I would love to
> continue as the PTL.
>
> Qualifications
> -------------------
>
> I am a Neutron 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 used throughout
> Neutron.  I started contributing to Neutron project during the Essex
> development cycle.  In Folsom, I was promoted to core and was the primary
> developer of the DHCP implementation and Neutron's network namespace
> library.  During Grizzly, I worked on the metadata service, database
> migrations, and LBaaS reference implementation.
>
> Havana Accomplishments
> ------------------------------------
>
> During the Havana cycle, I worked as a developer, core team member, and a
> technical lead.
>
> - Planned and implemented the Quantum to Neutron name change.
> - Most active reviewer on the Neutron team (
> http://russellbryant.net/openstack-stats/neutron-reviewers-180.txt)
> - Organized the Networking track at the Havana Design Summit.
> - Led bug triaging and sub-team assignment.
> - Interfaced with vendors new to Neutron and helped in the integration of
> their plugins.
> - Assisted members of the community to further their understanding of
> Neutron and improve Python development best practices.
> - Promoted Neutron by delivering presentations at conferences and regional
> meet ups worldwide.
>
>
> Icehouse
> -------------
>
> During the Icehouse 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.
> - Build upon the services added in Havana to extend and improve load
> balancing, firewalling, and VPN.
> - Integrating plugins from vendors new to the community including FWaaS,
> LBaaS, ML2, VPNaaS plugins/drivers.
> - More efficient Neutron system testing and gating including full Tempest
> testing.
> - Further work to ease deploying at scale.
> - Refactoring the API layer to leverage a common WSGI framework as other
> OpenStack projects.
> - Improving database resource modeling and extension management.
> - Unified network service management framework.
> - Continued support of the Horizon team to assist with Neutron integration.
> - Defined migration path from nova-network to Quantum.
>
> I'd love the opportunity to continue as the PTL and work with the Neutron
> team to fill in the gaps during the design summit in Hong Kong.
>
> Thanks,
> mark
>
>
>
>
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