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On 17-Sep-2016 10:30 am, "Trinath Somanchi" <trinath.somanchi at nxp.com>
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> *From:* Sridhar Ramaswamy <srics.r at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Saturday, September 17, 2016 3:40:18 AM
> *To:* OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> *Subject:* [openstack-dev] [tacker] PTL candidacy
>
> Hi Tackers,
>
> I would like to announce my candidacy to continue as Tacker PTL for the
> Ocata
> dev cycle.
>
> I'm a member of the Tacker community right from its Neutron ServiceVM days.
> I actively participated in its transition into NFV Orchestration area and
> its
> graduation into big-tent. Since becoming an official project our developer
> community has grown and has more diverse [1].
>
> Newton was a packed cycle for us with many stellar achievements from the
> community: VNF Scaling, Audit Events, VNF Forwarding Graph using Neutron
> Networking-SFC (we are almost there!) and External Alarm-based Monitoring
> using Ceilometer. As usual tons of refactoring work happened to continue
> to shed the "Neutronisms" in the project.
>
> Along the way, we have become a better openstack citizen following best
> practices like Reno release-notes, better release processes, and better
> python3 support. We also expanded our core-team with three new members.
>
> My vision for Tacker Ocata is along the following workstreams identified
> in the recent weekly meeting.
>
> * Decomposed VIM drivers:
> We need to enable a healthy ecosystem of VIM drivers beyond the current
> default openstack VIM driver. Our user community has mixed hypervisor/cloud
> technology in their deployments - with some existing pre-openstack systems
> (a.la, VMware), some OpenStack based clouds, and, forward looking into
> Containers and public clouds. All this needs an easy to add VIM driver to
> bolt underneath Tacker. Luckily our architecture is designed with this in
> mind right from day one. We just need to make it easy (a) for developers to
> bring in new VIM drivers and (b) for deployers to quickly add new VIM
> capabilities without requiring a fork-lift upgrade of Tacker for every new
> VIM type.
>
> As part of this workstream, I'd work towards bringing in a Container VIM
> type interfacing with Magnum / Zun.
>
> Lifecycle Features:
> * Finish left over Newton features - VNFC and NSD
> * Better integration with external EM / FCAPS systems
> * Enable support for VNFs leveraging Neutron's latest VLAN aware VM
> feature
>
> Project maintenance:
>  * Doc: API reference guide
>  * Pecan API framework
>  * OSC support
>  * Finish python3x TC goal
>
> Tons of fun things to do! However, Ocata is going to be a short cycle.
> So, over next few weeks, I'll help to continue to groom these topics and
> zoom in on those that are implementable in one dev cycle and clearly
> identify some tracks that would carry over to the next cycle.
>
> In Ocata, given an opportunity to serve as your PTL, I'll continue my role
> as the "chief enabler" for this amazing community of developers that I'm so
> proud to lead over the last two cycles.
>
> - Sridhar Ramaswamy (irc: sridhar_ram)
>
> [1] http://stackalytics.com/?module=tacker-group&metric=commits
>
>
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