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+Hello fellow packagers!
+
+I would like to announce my candidacy to be the PTL for the Packaging Rpm
+project during the Rocky development cycle.
+
+During the last cycles, the project has become a great collaboration space for
+people working on RPM packages for OpenStack products. We have a number of
+great tools that help us in different areas, even beyond the boundaries of
+RPM-based distributions [1], and a wide, up-to-date package set.
+
+For the Rocky cycle, my focus would be on:
+
+* Fixing 3rd party CI annoyances: we are often getting hit by known issues in
+  the 3rd party CI systems. Let's try to work on those known issues and reduce
+  their occurrence to a minimum, so we can spend more time on reviews and less
+  time troubleshooting our CI.
+
+* Work on getting the packages created by the project tested by some installer
+  project. This would greatly help us in improving quality on those small
+  details that only get caught during real life tests.
+
+* Expanding OpenStack distribution usage of the artifacts generated by the
+  Packaging Rpm project.
+
+That, of course, would be in addition to our common goals: expanding our
+contributor base, improving collaboration between RPM distributions, and
+keeping a high quality set of packages.
+
+Thanks for reading,
+Javier
+
+[1] - https://github.com/openstack/pymod2pkg/blob/master/pymod2pkg/__init__.py#L294-L316