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Brian,

w00t! thanks for the update.

-- Dims

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Brian Rosmaita
<rosmaita.fossdev at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Thierry and members of the TC,
>
> Since we've recently tagged Glance P-3, released the Pike
> python-glanceclient, and the Pike non-client glance_store library, I'd
> like to give you an update on the current state of the Glance project,
> particularly given the bleak outlook when I wrote you in April [0].
>
> The bleak outlook was not unjustified, as we've had 6 Glance cores
> step down during Pike because they no longer had time to devote to
> Glance.
>
> On the other hand, Glance has received a good deal of community
> support.  Erno Kuvaja, a long time core and the current Glance release
> czar, has been instrumental in coding, reviewing, and keeping the
> Glance lights on.  Mike Fedosin found time to do reviews and was
> reinstated as a Glance core.  A longtime contributor, Abhishek
> Kekhane, became a Glance core and has contributed high-quality reviews
> and bugfixes.  Flavio Percoco, a long time Glance core, contributed
> timely reviews around the image import refactoring work, and has been
> helpful in keeping the project moving along.  Matt Treinish stepped up
> and single-handedly completed the Pike run-glance-as-a-wsgi-app goal.
> Sean McGinnis, Eric Fried, and Kairat Kushaev have all been active
> reviewers.  Additionally, we've been seeing small contributions from a
> variety of developers from various companies (and hopefully these will
> turn into larger contributions).
>
> My personal situation is that I've been running the weekly meetings
> and trying to keep things coordinated, and reviewing and making
> contributions as I can, but until today I've been doing this on a
> volunteer basis while looking for a job (which was absorbing more and
> more effort as time elapsed and I brushed up skills for non-openstack
> positions).  I'm happy to say, however, that today I began working for
> Verizon Wireless, where a large part of my job will be working on
> upstream OpenStack (and in particular, on Glance).
>
> Additionally, it looks like Glance is on target to hit our Pike
> priorities [1].  (Admittedly, these were scaled back in April, but
> still ...)  There was only one FFE granted for Pike [2], so all things
> considered, I feel good about how things are shaping up for the
> release.
>
> With reference to some other discussion that has happened on the dev
> ML, all I have to say at the moment is that the rumors of Glance's
> demise have been greatly exaggerated.  But we can discuss that at the
> PTG.
>
> Respectfully,
> Brian Rosmaita
> Glance PTL
>
> [0] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-tc/2017-April/001362.html
> [1] https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/glance-specs/priorities/pike-priorities.html
> [2] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-July/120361.html
>
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