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On 04/15/2014 08:45 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I’d like to announce my candidacy for the Technical Committee election.
> 
> I was one of the original authors of the Nova project and served as
> its PTL for the first two years that the position existed. I have also
> been on the Technical Comittee since its inception. I was also recently
> elected to the OpenStack Board. In my day job I am  the Chief Technical
> Officer for Nebula, a startup focused on bringing OpenStack to the
> Enterprise.
> 
> My role in OpenStack has changed over time from being one of the top
> code contributors to more leadership and planning. I helped start both
> Cinder and Devstack. I’m on the stable-backports committee, and I’m
> currently working on an effort to bring Hierarchical Multitenancy to
> all of the OpenStack Projects. I also spend a lot of my time dealing
> with my companies customers, which are real operators and users of
> OpenStack.
> 
> I think there are two major governance issues that need to be addressed
> in OpenStack. We’ve started having these discussions in both the Board
> and the Technical Committee, but some more effort is needed to drive
> them home.
> 
> 1. Stop the kitchen-sink approach. We are adding new projects like mad
> and in order to keep the quality of the integrated release high, we have
> to raise the bar to be come integrated. We made some changes over the
> past few months here.
> 2. Better product management. This was a topic of discussion at the
> last board meeting and one we hope to continue at the joint meeting in
> Atlanta. We have a bit of a whole across openstack that is filled in
> most organizations by a product management team. We need to be more
> conscious of release quality and addressing customer issues. It isn’t
> exactly clear how something like this should happen in Open Source,
> but it is something we should try to address.
> 
> I hope to be able to continue to address these issues on the Technical
> Committee and provide some much-needed understanding from the “old-days”
> of OpenStack. It is often helpful to know where you came from in order
> see the best direction to go next.
> 
> Thanks,
> Vish Ishaya
> 
> 
> 
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