confirmed On 04/15/2014 08:45 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: > Hello all, > > I’d like to announce my candidacy for the Technical Committee election. > > I was one of the original authors of the Nova project and served as > its PTL for the first two years that the position existed. I have also > been on the Technical Comittee since its inception. I was also recently > elected to the OpenStack Board. In my day job I am the Chief Technical > Officer for Nebula, a startup focused on bringing OpenStack to the > Enterprise. > > My role in OpenStack has changed over time from being one of the top > code contributors to more leadership and planning. I helped start both > Cinder and Devstack. I’m on the stable-backports committee, and I’m > currently working on an effort to bring Hierarchical Multitenancy to > all of the OpenStack Projects. I also spend a lot of my time dealing > with my companies customers, which are real operators and users of > OpenStack. > > I think there are two major governance issues that need to be addressed > in OpenStack. We’ve started having these discussions in both the Board > and the Technical Committee, but some more effort is needed to drive > them home. > > 1. Stop the kitchen-sink approach. We are adding new projects like mad > and in order to keep the quality of the integrated release high, we have > to raise the bar to be come integrated. We made some changes over the > past few months here. > 2. Better product management. This was a topic of discussion at the > last board meeting and one we hope to continue at the joint meeting in > Atlanta. We have a bit of a whole across openstack that is filled in > most organizations by a product management team. We need to be more > conscious of release quality and addressing customer issues. It isn’t > exactly clear how something like this should happen in Open Source, > but it is something we should try to address. > > I hope to be able to continue to address these issues on the Technical > Committee and provide some much-needed understanding from the “old-days” > of OpenStack. It is often helpful to know where you came from in order > see the best direction to go next. > > Thanks, > Vish Ishaya > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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