I'd like to submit my candidacy for the TC Election. I've been involved with OpenStack since the beginning of the Folsom release. We may have worked together on parts of Nova, Tempest, DevStack, Grenade, or in generally debugging failures in the upstream gate in OpenStack. Or from things like the gerrit-dash-creator that makes it easy for teams to build custom review dashboards.
I'm a strong believer in the Big Tent approach to OpenStack. I was one of the early instigators of that conversation [1], which as with all things got better with more smart people involved in it. I'm also a strong believer that the longevity of the OpenStack project is about having a solid and small on ramp that gets OpenStack in as many places as possible. And a clear path to expand it over time. This was one of the reasons I believed the compute-starter-kit was an important tag that the TC bless [2]. Over the past year I've spent time on decomposing and modularizing OpenStack components. We no longer test all the projects and all the libraries in one giant gate queue. We now have a plugin framework for DevStack and Grenade that makes it easier for people to expand on top of it. I've also been focusing on the API side of OpenStack. In the API working group, and on the Nova project. I helped define the Micro-version approach that is used in Nova, and has been adopted by other projects in OpenStack [3]. This has opened up a new way for projects to evolve their API while not breaking existing applications. Over the next couple of cycles my focus is going to be interop, with an eye on the Service Catalog and the API of projects. I hope to do that work with a broad range of contributors to make the end user experience of OpenStack much better. In my role at Hewlett Packard I've got the freedom to work on many of these larger issues in the way that works best for the community. If this is the kind of voice that you would like on the TC, please feel free to vote for me. It would be my honor and pleasure to continue to represent you, and the mission to expand OpenStack's reach, on the TC. -Sean -- Sean Dague irc: sdague 1. https://dague.net/2014/08/26/openstack-as-layers/ 2. http://governance.openstack.org/reference/tags/compute_starter_kit.html 3. https://dague.net/2015/06/05/the-nova-api-in-kilo-and-beyond-2/ Review history: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/reviewer:2750,n,z Commit history: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/owner:2750,n,z Stackalytics: http://stackalytics.com/?user_id=sdague : https://www.openhub.net/accounts/sdague -- Sean Dague http://dague.net -- Sean Dague http://dague.net __________________________________________________________________________ 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