confirmed On 04/22/2015 03:52 AM, James E. Blair wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to announce my candidacy for re-election to the TC. > > About Me > ======== > > I am the PTL for the OpenStack Infrastructure Program, which I have > been helping to build for nearly four years. I have also served on > the TC since the Icehouse cycle. > > I am responsible for a significant portion of our project > infrastructure and developer workflow including setting up gerrit and > helping to write git-review. All of that is to say that I've given a > lot of thought and action to helping scale OpenStack to the number of > projects and developers it has today. > > I also wrote zuul, nodepool, and devstack-gate to make sure that we > are able to test that the different componensts of OpenStack work > together as a cohesive whole. A good deal of my technical work is > focused on achieving that and ensuring that all of the projects that > make up OpenStack have the ability to test themselves in such a > complex system. > > Throughout my time working on OpenStack I have always put the needs of > the whole project first, above those of any individual contributor, > organization, or program. I also believe in the values we have > established as a project: open source, design, development, and > community. To that end, I have worked hard to ensure that the project > infrastructure is run just like an OpenStack project, using the same > tools and processes, and I think we've succeeding in creating one of > the most open operational project infrastructures ever. > > My Platform > =========== > > I am very excited about the big tent. The infrastructure team has > been involved in operating stackforge for some time, and so the big > tent idea seems like a natural progression to me. We have a lot of > folks who are participating in our community and it is time that we > accept them in. At the same time we can strengthen the core of our > project by acknowledging that there are a lot of components that can > be a part of OpenStack, but not all of them need to be deployed in > every installation. And so the layered approach helps us make sense > of how a system should be constructed. > > As part of the move into the big tent, all of the cross-project > efforts will need to change the way they operate to accomodate the > scale we are dealing with. Most of that work is well underway, but > the TC itself will need to change as well. Just as any other > horizontal effort, the TC will need to provide the tools and processes > for projects to be effective members of our community on their own. > Part of the motivation for adopting the big tent strategy is to get > the TC out of the business of doing detailed review of projects so > that it can provide technical leadership for OpenStack as a whole. > > I believe we have made a great start on the work that is needed to > build the big tent. There is still more work that needs to be done, I > would like to continue to help the TC evolve into its new role and so > I would appreciate your vote. > > Thanks for your consideration, > > Jim > > __________________________________________________________________________ > 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 > >
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