[openstack-dev] [openstack-ansible] PTL Non-Candidacy
Jesse Pretorius
jesse.pretorius at gmail.com
Tue Sep 15 09:58:42 UTC 2015
On 14 September 2015 at 22:02, Kevin Carter <kevin.carter at rackspace.com>
wrote:
>
> TL;DR - I'm sending this out to announce that I won't be running for PTL
> of the OpenStack-Ansible project in the upcoming cycle. Although I won't be
> running for PTL, with community support, I intend to remain an active
> contributor just with more time spent more cross project and in other
> upstream communities.
>
> Being a PTL has been difficult, fun, and rewarding and is something I
> think everyone should strive to do at least once. In the the upcoming cycle
> I believe our project has reached the point of maturity where its time for
> the leadership to change. OpenStack-Ansible was recently moved into the
> "big-tent" and I consider this to be the perfect juncture for me to step
> aside and allow the community to evolve under the guidance of a new team
> lead. I share the opinions of current and former PTLs that having a
> revolving door of leadership is key to the success of any project [0].
> While OpenStack-Ansible has only recently been moved out of Stackforge and
> into the OpenStack namespace as a governed project (I'm really excited
> about that) I've had the privileged of working as the project technical
> lead ever since it's inception at Rackspace with the initial proof of
> concept known as "Ansible-LXC-RPC". It's been an amazing journey so far and
> I'd like to thank everyone that's helped make OpenStack-Ansible (formally
> OSAD) possible; none of this would have happened without the contributions
> made by our devout and ever growing community of deployers and developers.
>
> Thank you again and I look forward to seeing you all online and in Tokyo.
>
> [0] -
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-September/074242.html
>
Thank you Kevin for your leadership through the journey thus far! It's been
fantastic to work with you driving the vision and execution of being Open
[1].
[1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Open
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