confirmed On 04/14/2014 05:59 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'd like to announce my candidacy for the Technical Committee election. > > I've been handling release management for the OpenStack project since > 2010. Release management is now an official OpenStack program > (overseeing development cycle coordination, vulnerability management and > stable branches maintenance), and I've just been reelected as its PTL. > This position gives me a cross-project view on OpenStack which I think > is essential to the work we do at the Technical Committee. > > With 10 integrated projects (11 in Juno!), release management is a bit > of a full-time job, but I try to find time to contribute to various > other parts of OpenStack, like the oslo.rootwrap library, the StoryBoard > task tracker and other infrastructure projects. > > As the chair of the Technical Committee for the last 18 months, I tried > my best to organize and coordinate the work of the committee. I'm proud > of what the current TC membership achieved during the Icehouse cycle, > including: > > - significantly raising the QA bar for accepting new projects > - graduating Sahara in Juno and adding Barbican in incubation > - getting involved on the technical side of the DefCore effort > - setting up a governance repository to record policies and decisions > - formalizing clear incubation and graduation requirements > - review existing integrated projects compliance with those requirements > > Some of this work needs to continue over the Juno cycle, and new > challenges are forming ahead. We need to continue supporting a measured > growth for OpenStack projects, while solving the coordination and > leadership challenges that it creates. As we grow larger, convergence in > behavior, supported technologies, configuration or code used will help > us reduce the overall technical debt. The Technical Committee is the > right forum to drive that effort. > > Finally, the common OpenStack culture some of us old-timers take up for > granted is not necessarily present everywhere in the project. This > creates unnecessary friction between groups: we need to work on > spreading that common culture and documenting the common values which > will let us remain successful as our community of contributors grows in > the future. > > Thank you for your consideration! >
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