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On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 5:56 PM, David Lyle <dkly...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm announcing my candidacy for the Technical Committee elections. > > I have been contributing to OpenStack since Grizzly primarily in Horizon. I > have also had the privilege to serve as Horizon PTL since Icehouse. > > Why I'm running: > > I believe there should be broader representation on the TC. We are growing > the OpenStack ecosystem. Let's make sure horizontal teams and diverse parts > of the ecosystem are represented more directly. I understand concerns of > scaling were the reason for moving from the TC made up of all PTLs (I > question that assertion), but the sacrifice so far has been diversity. I > feel current TC members are exceptionally capable and take a broad > viewpoint, but there are limits of how well that works. Let's represent > broader swaths of our ecosystem in the technical leadership. > > I think growing the OpenStack ecosystem is fantastic. As a developer and the > PTL of a project that tries to span across most of that ecosystem it also > worries me a bit too. I think we need to focus on how the newer and older > parts of our ecosystem work together. How do we manage all the horizontal > needs this introduces without going to the extremes of just scaling existing > horizontal efforts because that won't work. And pushing all horizontal work > on the individual projects is not appropriate because that yields chaos. > > Finally, I believe the TC needs to be more active in guiding overall > direction of OpenStack and problem resolution. I'm not suggesting a > dictatorship of course. But let's set a direction, overall release goals for > OpenStack and help enable and drive them. > > I'm really proud to be a part of the OpenStack developer community, but I > think we're facing some real challenges. We need to address some primary > issues or this community will struggle to remain the vibrant, supportive > place it is now. > > Thank you, > David > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2 __________________________________________________________________________ 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