Hello all, I will not be running for Cinder PTL this next cycle. Each cycle I ran was for a reason [1][2], and the Cinder team should feel proud of our accomplishments: * Spearheading the Oslo work to allow *all* OpenStack projects to have their database being independent of services during upgrades. * Providing quality to OpenStack operators and distributors with over 60 accepted block storage vendor drivers with reviews and enforced CI [3]. * Helping other projects with third party CI for their needs. * Being a welcoming group to new contributors. As a result we grew greatly [4]! * Providing documentation for our work! We did it for Kilo [5], and I was very proud to see the team has already started doing this on their own to prepare for Liberty. I would like to thank this community for making me feel accepted in 2010. I would like to thank John Griffith for starting the Cinder project, and empowering me to lead the project through these couple of cycles. With the community's continued support I do plan on continuing my efforts, but focusing cross project instead of just Cinder. The accomplishments above are just some of the things I would like to help others with to make OpenStack as a whole better. [1] - http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-September/046788.html [2] - http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-April/060530.html [3] - http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/what-you-need-to-know-about-openstack-cinder [4] - http://thing.ee/cinder/active_contribs.png [5] - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/ReleaseNotes/Kilo#Key_New_Features_7 -- Mike Perez
