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Thanks, Nikhil, for offering to take on this responsibility.

I know you've had a lot of experience with Glance in the past and I feel
comfortable knowing that you'll be around to keep the project moving
forwards!

Cheers!

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Nikhil Komawar <
nikhil.komawar at rackspace.com> wrote:

>   Hi,
>
>  I would like to take this opportunity and announce my candidacy for the
> role of Glance PTL.
>
>  I have been part of this program since Folsom release and have had opportunity
> to work with an awesome team. There have been really challenging changes in
> the way Glance works and it has been a pleasure to contribute my reviews
> and code to many of those changes.
>
>  With the change in mission statement [1], that now provides a direction
> for other services to upload and discover data assets using Glance, it
> would be my focus to enable new features like 'Artifacts' to merge smoothly
> into master. This is a paradigm change in the way Glance is consumed and
> would be my priority to see this through. In addition, Glance is supporting a
> few new features like async workers and metadef, as of Juno that could be
> improved in terms of bugs and their maintainability. Seeing this through
> would be my next priority.
>
>  In addition to these, there are a few other challenges which Glance
> project faces - review/feedback time, triaging ever growing bug list, BP
> 'validation and followup' etc. I have some ideas to develop more momentum
> in each of these processes. With the advent of the Artifacts feature, new
> developers would be contributing to Glance. I would like to encourage and
> work with them become core members sooner than later. Also, there are many
> merge propositions which become stale due to lack of reviews from
> core-reviewers. My plan is to have bi-weekly sync-ups with the core and
> driver members to keep the review cycle active. As a good learning lesson
> from Juno, I would like to work closely with all the developers and
> involved core reviewers to know their sincere intent of accomplishing a
> feature within the scope of release timeline. There are some really
> talented people involved in Glance and I would like to keep synthesizing
> the ecosystem to enable everyone involved to do their best.
>
>  Lastly, my salutations to Mark. He has provided great direction and
> leadership to this project. I would like to keep his strategy of rotation
> of weekly meeting times to accommodate the convenience of people from
> various time zones.
>
>  Thanks for reading and I hope you will support my candidacy!
>
>  [1]
> https://github.com/openstack/governance/blob/master/reference/programs.yaml#L26
>
>  -Nikhil Komawar
>
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