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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Perez [mailto:thingee at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 14, 2015 6:16 PM
> 
> 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]!

As someone who started to contribute to Cinder just after Mike took the PTL role I can say that  this is true and it felt really great to participate in the project from just the beginning. Thanks!

> * 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.