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Thanks Robert. I share most of your views on this. The project will
certainly miss your reviews. I'll go ahead and remove you from the
permissions and stats.

Excerpts from Robert Collins's message of 2015-02-15 13:40:02 -0800:
> Hi, I've really not been pulling my weight as a core reviewer in
> TripleO since late last year when personal issues really threw me for
> a while. While those are behind me now, and I had a good break over
> the christmas and new year period, I'm sufficiently out of touch with
> the current (fantastic) progress being made that I don't feel
> comfortable +2'ing anything except the most trivial things.
> 
> Now the answer to that is to get stuck back in, page in the current
> blueprints and charge ahead - but...
> 
> One of the things I found myself reflecting on during my break was the
> extreme fragility of the things we were deploying in TripleO - most of
> our time is spent fixing fallout from unintended, unexpected
> consequences in the system. I think its time to put some effort
> directly in on that in a proactive fashion rather than just reacting
> to whichever failure du jour is breaking deployments / scale /
> performance.
> 
> So for the last couple of weeks I've been digging into the Nova
> (initially) bugtracker and code with an eye to 'how did we get this
> bug in the first place', and refreshing my paranoid
> distributed-systems-ops mindset: I'll be writing more about that
> separately, but its clear to me that there's enough meat there - both
> analysis, discussion, and hopefully execution - that it would be
> self-deceptive for me to think I'll be able to meaningfully contribute
> to TripleO in the short term.
> 
> I'm super excited by Kolla - I think that containers really address
> the big set of hurdles we had with image based deployments, and if we
> can one-way-or-another get cinder and Ironic running out of
> containers, we should have a pretty lovely deployment story. But I
> still think helping on the upstream stuff more is more important for
> now. We'll see where we're at in a cycle or two :)
> 
> -Rob
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