Open Stack

I would like to be the PTL of the shade project for another cycle.

Over the past few years the shade project has grown from a utility 
library containing some logic needed by the Infrastructure team and 
Ansible for interacting with OpenStack clouds to a rich SDK that serves 
the general needs of humans who want to use OpenStack.

This past cycle we (mostly) accomplished two main goals that were not 
exciting features but which are immensely important nonetheless. We 
ported our unittests to use requests-mock instead of mocking out 
individual python client libraries, and we replaced our use of the 
python client libraries with direct REST calls based on keystoneauth. 
This was rather mind-numbing and I fear we may have eaten the brains of 
a few wonderful contributors - but it means that our dependency chain is 
much slimmer so inclusion in distros and alongside apps should be less 
costly.

We still need to finish converting the last keystoneclient calls and to
transition the Ironic calls. TheJulia did WAY too good of a job writing 
tests when implemeting Ironic support originally, so it may take a 
little while to finish that one.

Over the next cycle we need to update our REST layer to incorporate the 
recent changes made in keystoneauth related to service and version 
discovery. This largely means removing code, which is always pleasant. 
Once that's done we'll be in a position to start using microversions as 
appropriate.

Glance has landed experimental support for the new Image upload process, 
and we need to add detection and implementation of that to our Image 
upload system so that we'll use it when it's available.

There is some very important work we need to do deep in the guts related 
to caching and batching of calls. We have a system for this that is 
designed to ensure that large-scale systems such as Nodepool can operate 
effectively, but it's proving costly for smaller users and needs to be 
optimized.

I recently suggested merging the work of the python-openstacksdk team 
into shade. If we decide as a larger OpenStack community that this is a 
direction we want to go, we'll need to do a decent amount of plumbing to 
ensure that's as smooth as possible for both sets of users.

Finally, I think if we don't make some forward progress on the oaktree 
gRPC federation API that samueldmq will be very unhappy with me. We've 
been explicitly putting off working on that to ensure we get the 
RESTification work done. This next cycle I expect to make real progress 
on that so that we can at least have a proof point to look at so we can 
discuss a real thing rather than a theory.

I'm proud of what we've done so far, and I think there is a ton we can 
continue to do to serve OpenStack End Users well.

Thank you for your consideration,
Monty