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Hi everyone,

This is my self-nomination to continue running as Nova PTL for the Pike 
cycle.

If elected, this would be a third term for me as Nova PTL. In Ocata I 
thought that I did a better job of keeping on top of a broader set of 
efforts than I was able to in Newton, including several non-priority 
vendor-specific blueprints.

I have also tried to make regular communication a priority. The topics 
vary, but in general I try to keep people informed about the release 
schedule, upcoming deadlines, areas that need attention, and recaps of 
smaller group discussions back to the wider team. We have a widely 
distributed team and a lot of groups are impacted by decisions made 
within Nova so it's important to continue with that communication. 
Despite my best efforts I have also learned in Ocata that we need to get 
earlier feedback on changes which impact deployment tooling, and make 
documentation of such changes a high priority earlier in the development 
of new features so that people working on tooling are not left in the dark.

Ocata has been a tough release, and I think we knew that was going to be 
the case going in. It was a shorter cycle but still had some very 
high-priority and high-visibility work items such as integrating the 
placement service with the scheduler and further integrating support for 
cells v2, along with making both of those required in a Nova deployment 
for Ocata. We also had to deal with losing some key people and filling 
those spots. But people have stepped up and we still made some 
incredible progress in Ocata despite the difficulties.

For Pike I want to focus on the following:

* Continue integration of the placement service into making scheduling 
decisions, including working with Neutron routed networks and work on 
defining traits for resource providers so we can model the qualitative 
aspects of resources in making placement decisions.

* Continue working on cells v2 for multi-cell support including 
investigating the concept of auto-registration of compute nodes to 
simplify deployment automation, and also focus on multi-cell testing and 
Searchlight integration.

* Work on volume multi-attach support with the new Cinder v3 APIs 
introduced in Ocata for creating and deleting volume attachments. I 
think we are finally at a place where we can make some solid progress on 
the Nova side with improved understanding between the Nova and Cinder teams.

* There are going to be several efforts going on across several projects 
in the Pike release, including modeling capabilities in the REST API, 
and Nova is going to have to be a part of those efforts. We also need to 
get teams together to figure out what are the issues with hierarchical 
quotas and what progress can be made there since that is a high priority 
item that lots of operators have been requesting for a long time.

In general, we are going to have to improve our review throughput, 
especially given the change in resources we experienced in Ocata. To me, 
a lot of this will have to do with mentoring people that are newer to 
Nova but are stepping into leadership positions, and having a shorter 
feedback loop on "leveling up".

To summarize, I aim to be of service to those using and contributing to 
Nova and want to continue doing that in the PTL role for the project in 
the Pike release if you will have me for another round.

Thank you for your consideration,

Matt