[openstack-dev] [Cinder] PTL Candidacy

Tom Barron whuisit at gmail.com
Tue Mar 15 01:49:57 UTC 2016



On 03/11/2016 01:41 PM, Sean McGinnis wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> Wow, how six months flies! I'd like to announce my candidacy to continue on as
> Cinder PTL for the Newton release cycle.
> 
> A lot has been accomplished in the Mitaka cycle. After a lot of work by many
> folks, over a couple development cycles, we now have what we consider a "tech
> preview" of rolling upgrades. It just hasn't had enough runtime and testing for
> us to say it's "official". We will likely need to fix a few minor things in the
> Newton timeframe before it's fully baked and reliable. But it has come a long
> way and I'm really happy with the progress that has been made.
> 
> Another priority we had identified for Mitaka was active/active high
> availability of the c-vol service. We were not able to complete that work, but
> many pieces have been put in place to support that in Newton. We fixed several
> API races and added the ability to use something like tooz for locking. These
> are foundation pieces for us to be able to start breaking out things and
> running in a reliable active/active configuration.
> 
> Microversion support has been added and there is now a new v3 API endpoint.
> This was a bit of a controversy as we really had just started to get folks to
> move off of v1 to v2. To be safe though I decided it would protect end users
> better to have a clearly separate new API endpoint for the microversion
> compatibility. And now hopefully it is our last.
> 
> Replication was another slightly controversial feature implemented. Late in
> Liberty we finally agreed on a spec for a v2 version of replication. The v2
> spec was approved so late that no one actually had time to implement it for
> that release. As we started to implement it for Mitaka we found that a lot of
> compromises had crept in during the spec review that it had the risk of being
> too complex and having some of the issues we were trying to get rid of by
> moving away from replication v1. At our midcycle we had a lot of discussion on
> replication and finally decided to change course before it was too late.
> Whether that ends up being the best choice when we look back a year from now or
> not, I'm proud of the team that we were willing to put on the brakes and make
> changes - even though it was more work for us - before we released something
> out to end users that would have caused problems or a poor experience.
> 
> Other than that, there's mostly been a lot of good bug fixes. Eight new drivers
> have been added from (I think) five different vendors. The os-brick library is
> now 1.0 (actually 1.1.0) and is in use by both Cinder and Nova for common
> storage management operations so there is not a duplication and disconnect of
> code between the two projects. We were also able to add a Brick cinder client
> extension to be able to perform storage management on nodes without Nova (bare
> metal, etc.).
> 
> None of this goodness was from me.
> 
> We have a bunch of smart and active members of the Cinder community. They are
> the ones that are making a difference, working across the community, and
> making sure Cinder is a solid component in an OpenStack cloud.
> 
> Being part of the Cinder community has been one of the best and most engaging
> parts of my career. I am lucky enough to have support from my company to be
> able to devote time to being a part of this. I would love the opportunity to
> continue as PTL to not just contribute where I can, but to make sure the folks
> doing the heavy lifting have the support and project organization they need to
> avoid distractions and be able to focus on getting the important stuff done.
> 
> I think in Newton we need to continue the momentum and get Active/Active Cinder
> volume service support implemented. We need to continue to work closely with
> the Nova team to make sure our interaction is correct and solid. But also work
> to make Cinder a useful storage management interface in environments without
> Nova. I will continue to encourage developer involvement and vendor support.
> We need to improve the user experience with better error reporting when things
> go wrong. And last, but definitely not least, we need to continue to expand our
> testing - unit, functional, and tempest - to make sure we can avoid those
> errors and deliver a high quality and solid solution.
> 
> I really feel I'm just getting into the swing of things. I would love the
> opportunity to serve as PTL for the Newton release.

FWIW, you have my support.  Thanks for your service!

-- Tom

> 
> Thank you for your consideration.
> 
> Sean McGinnis (smcginnis)
> 
> 
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