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On 04/07/2015 04:43 AM, Flavio Percoco wrote:
> Obviously, where I said Juno, I meant Kilo :)

You sure you're not burned out? :P

-jay

> On 07/04/15 11:35 +0200, Flavio Percoco wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> You read it right, you've not burned out yet - I probably will. Here's
>> a crazy idea, what if I run for 2 PTL positions on the projects I've
>> been putting my focus on lately? Hopefully, by sending this out now,
>> I'll be able to answer all your questions in time before the candidacy
>> period closes.
>>
>> Before you jump out of your chair, pull your hair off and start
>> asking: "Is that even possible?" Let me tell you that, as far as I can
>> tell by reading our governance repo[0], it seems to be entirely
>> "legal". If you think it is not, please do let me know.
>>
>> Now, to my candidacy. During the Juno development cycle, I had the
>> pleasure to be Zaqar's PTL. During this cycle, we managed to kick of
>> complete - at least in an experimental version - some exciting
>> features and we've also kicked off others - you can read more about
>> that here[1]. We did that with a small team of old and new
>> contributors, if it doesn't seem much to you, I'd love to invite you
>> to our team and help us out. :D
>>
>> That said, I think our most important goal during Juno was
>> incorporating the feedback we got from the community, after our last
>> incubation attempt, in a way that doesn't compromise the project's
>> goals but still brings in way more flexibility to the project. This
>> will allow for the community (Zaqar's and OpenStack's) to finally
>> adopt the project wherever it might be needed.
>>
>> Based on the above results and the fact that I believe the community
>> hasn't seen enough (anything) of Zaqar yet, I'd like to throw my hat
>> out there to be Zaqar's PTL for another cycle. Here are some things
>> that I'd like us to do during this cycle:
>>
>> 1. Spread the word and improve our interaction with the overall
>> community. We've spent lot of time heads down coding new features and
>> working out the best way to deliver this project. I believe it's time
>> to throw it out there and let it crash (if you know what I mean).
>>
>> 2. Restore/Improve our community activities by improving our
>> communications through the openstack mailing list, restoring our
>> weekly meetings and contributing back to other projects.
>>
>> 3. Keep improving our deployment story/tools. We've a draft of a
>> puppet manifest that we need to complete, we've devstack support but
>> we ought to bring it into our code base and extend it with other
>> features that have been developed.
>>
>> 4. Keep our amazing mentoring story alive by helping new mentees to
>> integrate with OpenStack, open source and obviously, Zaqar. Something
>> this team should be proud of is that it's mentored new contributors
>> since it was created.
>>
>> The above and more, I'd be honored to do together with the rest of the
>> team.
>>
>> Now, to the obvious natural question: How will I be the PTL of 2
>> projects and get to the end of the  cycle?
>>
>> Well, this definitely will require some changes from my side and my
>> current focus that you'll see happen if I have the honor to be elected
>> for both projects. Will I be burned out at the end of the cycle?
>> Probably, but that's a price I'm willing to pay for these 2 projects
>> and more importantly for OpenStack because I truly believe these
>> projects play (or will play in the case of Zaqar) and important role
>> in our ecosystem.
>>
>> In addition to the above, I must say that, thankfully enough, Zaqar is
>> still not such a time consuming project from a PTL perspective and
>> it's entirely feasible to be the PTL of these 2 projects and still do
>> a good job - last famous words.
>>
>> In all seriousness, I'd be honored to serve for both projects and I
>> hope you'll join me in this experiment.
>>
>> [0]
>> https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/charter.rst
>>
>> [1]
>> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-April/060446.html
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Flavio
>>
>> --
>> @flaper87
>> Flavio Percoco
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