Hello everyone, I'm announcing my candidacy for Cinder PTL for the Mitaka release. The Cinder team has made great progress. We've not only grown the number of supported backend drivers, but we've made significant improvements to the core code and raised the quality of existing and incoming code contributions. While there are still many things that need more polish, we are headed in the right direction and block storage is a strong, stable component to many OpenStack clouds. Mike and John have provided the leadership to get the project where it is today. I would like to keep that momentum going. I've spent over a decade finding new and interesting ways to create and delete volumes. I also work across many different product teams and have had a lot of experience collaborating with groups to find a balance between the work being done to best benefit all involved. I think I can use this experience to foster collaboration both within the Cinder team as well as between Cinder and other related projects that interact with storage services. Some topics I would like to see focused on for the Mitaka release would be: * Complete work of making the Cinder code Python3 compatible. * Complete conversion to objects. * Sort out object inheritance and appropriate use of ABC. * Continued stabilization of third party CI. * Make sure there is a good core feature set regardless of backend type. * Reevaluate our deadlines to make sure core feature work gets enough time and allows drivers to implement support. While there are some things I think we need to do to move the project forward, I am mostly open to the needs of the community as a whole and making sure that what we are doing is benefiting OpenStack and making it a simpler, easy to use, and ubiquitous platform for the cloud. Thank you for your consideration! Sean McGinnis (smcginnis)