Good plan!
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 6:40 AM, John Dickinson <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to nominate myself for PTL of Swift. > > I've been involved in OpenStack Swift since it started, and I'd like > to share a few of the thins in-progress and where I want to see Swift > go. > > Swift has always been a world-class storage system, proven at scale > and production-ready from day one. In the past few years Swift has > been deployed in public and private storage clouds all over the world, > and it is in use at the largest companies in the world. > > My goal for Swift is that everyone will use Swift, every day, even if > they don't realize it. And taking a look at where Swift is being used > today, we're well on our way to that goal. We'll continue to move > towards Swift being everywhere as Swift grows to solve more real-world > use cases. > > Right now, there is work being done in Swift that will give deployers > a very high degree of flexibility in how they can store data. We're > working on implementing storage policies in Swift. These storage > policies give deployers the ability to choose: > > (a) what subset of hardware the data lives on > (b) how the data is stored across that hardware > (c) how communication with an actual storage volume happens. > > Supporting (a) allows for storage tiers and isolated storage hardware. > Supporting (b) allows for different replication or non-replication > schemes. Supporting (c) allows for specific optimizations for > particular filesystems or storage hardware. Combined, it's even > feasable to have a Swift cluster take advantage of other storage > systems as a storage policy (imagine an S3 storage policy). > > As PTL, I want to help coordinate this work and see it to completion. > Many people from many different companies are working on it, in > addition to the normal day-to-day activity in Swift. > > I'm excited by the future of Swift, and would be honored to continue > to serve as Swift PTL. > > --John > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > -- Gareth *Cloud Computing, OpenStack, Fitness, Basketball* *OpenStack contributor* *Company: UnitedStack <http://www.ustack.com>* *My promise: if you find any spelling or grammar mistakes in my email from Mar 1 2013, notify me * *and I'll donate $1 or ￥1 to an open organization you specify.*
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