Hi, I'd like to announce my candidacy for the RPM Packaging for OpenStack PTL. During the Liberty cycle I've been co-PTL'ing this together with Haïkel Guemar as a bootstrap. For the Mitaka cycle we've been notified that this setup needs to be adjusted to a single PTL. Therefore we discussed this and decided that I'd be announcing the candicacy. We've been mostly quiet on the mailing lists so far because we've been working together on unifying our existing packaging in order to iron out the differences for the benefit of being able to develop a common, standardized packaging for OpenStack on RPM base. As such, the work was mostly on the side of downstream adjustments in order to have a common state that can be maintained upstream. We have also spent significant amount of time in designing a solution that fits for all interested parties, and are just starting to upstream the bits for it. For us it is important that we can continue to work as we do right now under the OpenStack Big Tent in order to reach a critical mass in the project during the next cycle. My goal for the next cycle is to support the "bootstrapping" phase as much as possible by ensuring that we can develop a common packaging standard across all rpm based OpenStack distributions and are actually converging the downstream effort into those common packagings. For that we have many open action items that I'm aware of: * Improve documentation and transparency of the project * Foster collaboration on the existing spec files and motivate relevant groups to contribute back to us * Design and Implement a gating policy on changes to the project * Reach the critical mass for the project so that it can self-sustain in the future I'd like to work on all of them together with the other core members and anyone who is interested in contributing to the project during the next cycle. Thanks, Dirk