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Fantastic news! I had hoped you'd run again.

While I haven't been around Nova all that long, I've really enjoyed
the approachable & jovial tone you bring to #openstack-nova.

And your work ethic speaks for itself. Thanks Matt!

--diana

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Matt Riedemann
<mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> This is my self-nomination to continue running as Nova PTL for the Ocata cycle.
>
> Looking back at Newton, the Nova team accomplished a lot. Random things that
> stick out for me:
>
> * Cells v2 in a single-cell deployment plus CI jobs.
> * Placement API for tracking quantitative resources on compute nodes.
> * Dedicated voting live migration CI job.
> * os-vif integration for libvirt (linuxbridge and OVS backends).
> * Glance v2 integration.
> * nova-network deprecation (for real this time!)
> * Server tags support (v2.26).
> * Virtual device tags for libvirt and hyper-v (v2.32).
> * Proxy API deprecation (v2.36).
> * Get me a network (v2.37).
> * API policy defaults in code.
> * api-ref docs in tree and massively cleaned up.
> * Continued cleanup and documentation of the configuration options.
> * Ironic multiple compute host support.
> * Ironic multiple tenant networking support.
> * Libvirt live migration post-copy mode.
> * Vendordata (version 2) API for the metadata service.
> * Several notifications are now versioned.
> * os-brick + oslo.privsep support.
> * Improved third party CI for NFV (Intel and Mellanox).
> * Deferred fixed IP allocation for Neutron ports.
> * gate-tempest-dsvm-lvm job in the experimental queue.
> * plus a lot more (100 approved blueprints, 64 complete or partially complete)
>
> I think we have some momentum going into Ocata, which is a shorter release, to
> continue some of the work from Newton. My personal priorities for Ocata are:
>
> * Continue work on cells v2, specifically around multi-cell support and making
>   cells v2 required in Nova deployments for the Ocata release.
> * Continue work on the placement API, including making it required for Nova
>   deployments by the Ocata release. There will also be work on modeling
>   capabilities for the placement service.
> * The libvirt imagebackend refactor which is a prerequisite for implementing
>   libvirt storage pools is going to need focus in Ocata. This was the one
>   priority from Newton that did not really "make it" and I want to come up with
>   a plan to push that forward, which probably includes dedicated review focus,
>   improved test coverage (non-Tempest integration testing), and milestones to
>   make sure we are staying on track.
> * Discoverable API support which builds off the policy in code and capabilities
>   modeling work.
> * There were several blueprints which were close in Newton but missed the cut
>   due to the non-priority feature freeze and I think we can get those in early
>   in Ocata.
> * Python 3 support since that's a cross-project OpenStack effort for Ocata.
> * We will need to start taking a deeper look at improving workflows between
>   Nova/Cinder and Nova/Neutron. For Cinder this means the simplified API stack
>   that John Griffith has been POCing which is a prerequisite for volume
>   multiattach support. For Neutron this means improved coordination of tasks
>   like during live migration. John Garbutt has already started working with the
>   Neutron team on this.
>
> Like in Newton, I would like to restrict spec reviews mainly to re-approvals
> early so that we can close out things that are nearly already ready to go
> before accepting new work, especially with the shorter cycle.
>
> I will continue to foster the subteams that are working and holding meetings in
> Nova. I think that has been going well and helps focus efforts which do not
> have a dedicated core involved on a daily basis. I want to also continue doing
> regular status checks in the mailing list and recaps of events, be those
> summit sessions or even hangout sessions, so that the entire team is on the
> same page and we have clear communication.
>
> This is definitely not a one person show and I owe a lot to the people working
> in Nova every day. As I said in my Newton nomination I want to be PTL to help
> manage the project forward in Ocata and keep the development team focused on
> getting work done, but I definitely can not and will not do that alone.
>
> Thanks for your consideration.
>
> --
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt Riedemann
>
>
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