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On 23/09/14 10:19 AM, Duncan Thomas wrote:
> This is an announcement of my standing for PTL of the Cinder project.
> 
> I've been an active member of the Cinder core team from day one, and
> I've had the pleasure of working closely with John Griffith, the
> incumbent PTL, and a large and varied collection of contributors for
> that period.
> 
> My job is running block storage in HP's public cloud, as well as
> working on our private cloud offering. This has give me a strong
> emphasis on the day to day operational aspects of running Cinder at
> scale, backward compatibility and the challenges of continuous
> deployment of head-of-tree code in production.
> 
> I think Cinder is a project reaching technical maturity; it has a
> strong team behind it, both core and non-core. We work well together,
> and I see the main role of the PTL not as making decisions but in
> enabling this community to progress as smoothly as possible. I've had
> a great deal of success in driving forward the 3rd party CI
> requirements, working with the infra team to work out process and
> where necessary giving engineers the tools and leverage they need to
> overcome roadblocks within their own companies. I feel that some
> gentle shepherding in terms of review focus can help us increase our
> velocity without disrupting the very successful way of working we
> currently have.
> 
> The hugely successful mid-cycle meetup set the main goal of the Kilo
> cycle as stability and paying down technical debt, and there are a
> number of pieces of work started by myself and others that should
> produce significant dividends in that area - state machine, cinder
> agent, decoupling of drivers and connector types.
> 
> I have always encouraged anybody to reach out to me with questions and
> concerns, and continue to do so. I look forward to continuing the
> great work we've been doing.
> 
> 
> Regards
> 


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