Howdy folks, I'd like to propose myself for oslo PTL for the mitaka cycle, For those that don't know me I've been involved in openstack for ~4 years, Have worked at yahoo! for ~7 years, ~4 of the last years have been getting openstack adopted in yahoo! (where it is now used by everyone, and is a common word/name/project all employees know about, quite a change from when 3 other engineers and myself started investigating it 4 years ago). It has been quite the journey (for myself, others and yahoo! in general) and I've been pretty active in oslo for ~2 years so I thought it might be a good time to try to run and see how I can help in a PTL role (this also ensures nobody else in oslo-core burns out). I contribute to many projects (inside and outside of openstack): - http://stackalytics.com/report/users/harlowja Created/maintain/co-maintain/contributor/core to the following: (not directly openstack, generally useful to all) - https://kazoo.readthedocs.org - https://redis-py.readthedocs.org - https://cloudinit.readthedocs.org - https://fasteners.readthedocs.org - https://pymemcache.readthedocs.org - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zake - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/doc8 - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/retrying (mainly created for usage by openstack, but not limited to) - https://anvil.readthedocs.org - http://docs.openstack.org/developer/futurist/ - http://docs.openstack.org/developer/automaton/ - http://docs.openstack.org/developer/debtcollector/ - http://docs.openstack.org/developer/taskflow/ - http://docs.openstack.org/developer/tooz/ (created for usage by openstack) - oslo.messaging - oslo.utils - oslo.serialization - oslo.service - (all the other 'oslo.*' libraries) (and more...) I feel I can help bring a unique viewpoint to oslo and openstack in general; one of increasing exposure and general usefulness of oslo libraries outside of openstack; fostering community inside and outside and continuing to make oslo and openstack the best it can be. Some of the things that I would like to focus on (not inclusive of all the things): - Increasing outreach to consuming projects so that they can benefit from the oslo libraries, code and knowledge (and patterns) that have been built up by these libraries; perhaps some kind of bi-weekly blog about oslo? - Improving our outreach to others in the wider world (even ones not in the big tent); the python community is a big world and it'd be great to make sure we do our part there as well. - Being jolly. - Asking the hard questions. Thanks for considering me, -Joshua Harlow