On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 8:25 AM, Frode Nordahl <frode.nord...@canonical.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I hereby announce my candidacy for PTL of the OpenStack Charms project [0]. > > Through the course of the past two years I have made many contributions to > the Charms projects and I have had the privilege of becoming a Core > developer. > > Prior to focusing on the Charms project I have made upstream contributions > in > other OpenStack projects and I have followed the unfolding and development > of > the OpenStack community with great interest. > > We live in exciting times and I believe great things are afoot for OpenStack > as a stable, versatile and solid contender in the cloud space. It would be > my privilege to be able to help further that along as PTL for the Charms > project. > > Our project has a strong and disperse group of contributors and we are > blessed > with motivated and assertive people taking interest in maintaining existing > code as well as developing new features. > > The most important aspect of my job as PTL will be to make sure we maintain > room for the diversity of contributions without losing velocity and > direction. > Maintaining and developing our connection with the broader OpenStack > community > will also be of great importance. > > Some key areas of focus for Stein cycle: > - Python 3 migration > - The clock is ticking for Python 2 and we need to continue the drive > towards > porting all our code to Python 3 > - Continue modernization of test framework > - Sustained software quality is only as good as you can prove through the > quality of your unit and functional tests. > - Great progress has been made this past cycle in developing and extending > functionality of a new framework for our functional tests and we need to > continue this work. > - Continue to build test driven development culture, and export this > culture > to contributors outside the core team. > - [Multi-cycle] Explore possibilities and methodologies for Classic -> > layered > Reactive Charm migrations > - A lot of effort has been put into the Reactive Charm framework and the > reality of writing a new Charm today is quite different from what it was > just a few years ago. > - The time and effort needed to maintain a layered Reactive Charm is also > far > less than what it takes to maintain a classic Charm. > - There are many hard and difficult topics surrounding such a migration > but I > think it is worth spending some time exploring our options of how we > could > get there. > - Evaluate use of upstream release tools > - The OpenStack release team has put together some great tools that might > make our release duties easier. Let us evaluate adopting some of them > for > our project. > > 0: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/586821/ > > -- > Frode Nordahl (IRC: fnordahl)
+1 I am certain Frode will work tirelessly as the Chrams PTL. -- David Ames __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev