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John,

You are awesome! There are very few PTL who answer queries like you.

Thanks!

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 1:46 AM, Tristan Cacqueray <
tristan.cacqueray at enovance.com> wrote:

> confirmed
>
> On 25/09/14 02:50 PM, John Dickinson wrote:
> > I'm announcing my candidacy for Swift PTL. I've been involved with Swift
> specifically and OpenStack in general since the beginning. I'd like to
> continue to serve in the role as Swift PTL.
> >
> > In my last candidacy email[1], I talked about several things I wanted to
> focus on in Swift.
> >
> > 1) Storage policies. This is done, and we're currently building on it to
> implement erasure code storage in Swift.
> >
> > 2) Focus on performance and efficiency. This is an ongoing thing that is
> never "done", but we have made improvements here, and there are some other
> interesting things in-progress right now (like zero-copy data paths).
> >
> > 3) Better QA. We've added a third-party test cluster to the CI system,
> but I'd like to improve this further, for example by adding our internal
> integration tests (probe tests) to our QA pipeline.
> >
> > 4) Better community efficiency. Again, we've made some small
> improvements here, but we have a ways to go yet. Our review backlog is
> large, and it takes a while for patches to land. We need to continue to
> improve community efficiency on these metrics.
> >
> > Overall, I want to ensure that Swift continues to provide a stable and
> robust object storage engine. Focusing on the areas listed above will help
> us do that. We'll continue to build functionality that allows applications
> to rely on Swift to take over hard problems of storage so that apps can
> focus on adding their value without worrying about storage.
> >
> > My vision for Swift is that everyone will use it every day, even if they
> don't realize it. Together we can make it happen.
> >
> > --John
> >
> > [1]
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-March/031450.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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