From 82f97be0c744aec091f936490ecaef55532fb155 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Feilong Wang Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 16:21:48 +1300 Subject: [PATCH] Adding Feilong Wang candidacy for TC Change-Id: I94dfde51ad61feb626981d285c2526d17d1c29c1 --- candidates/queens/TC/flwang.txt | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 83 insertions(+) create mode 100644 candidates/queens/TC/flwang.txt diff --git a/candidates/queens/TC/flwang.txt b/candidates/queens/TC/flwang.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..173cc5fd --- /dev/null +++ b/candidates/queens/TC/flwang.txt @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +Hi everyone, + +I'm announcing my candidacy for a position on the OpenStack Technical Committee. +For those of you who don't know me yet, I'm Feilong Wang, currently +working for Catalyst Cloud as a development lead. Catalyst Cloud is a public +cloud running on OpenStack based in New Zealand. Aslo, I've been serving as the +PTL of Zaqar (OpenStack Messaging Service) for 5 cycles. Before that, I was +mainly working for Glance (OpenStack Image Service) as a core reviewer since +Folsom 2012. + +Currently the role of the TC is more important than ever. Some large companies +are downsizing their investment for OpenStack or switching their focus +to containers/k8s, but meanwhile many companies from APAC, especially China, +are heavily investing OpenStack. Although it's a pain to lose great +contributors, the companies having real requirements for OpenStack are kept. +It's a good time for us to think about how to define OpenStack, for whom we're +building the software and how to build a collaborative/integrated community. + +As a TC member I want to bring focus in below areas: + +#1 Users & Operators + +Listen closely to the voice of users and operators and this pretty much align +with the mission of OpenStack as below. + +"To produce the ubiquitous Open Source Cloud Computing platform that will meet +the needs of public and private clouds regardless of size, by being simple to +implement and massively scalable." + +To implement a useful, stable cloud platform, we can't work behind closed +doors, but closely work with the user and operator community. As far as I know, +except the user survey, we don't have more formal process/approach to collect +the feedback from our users and operators, though the operators mailing list +and some random forum sessions at OpenStack summit are helpful. And IMHO, +currently we’re mixing feedback collected from different perspectives. For +example, most of the feedback from operators are how to easily deploy/manage +the cloud. But the tenant user/developers' requirements are more related to +functions, UX, etc. I can see we have put a lot of effort to address the pain +of operators, but obviously, we do also need more work to make the tenant +users/developer’s life easier. + +#2 Core and Ecosystem, Big Tent and Constellation + +As the PTL of Zaqar, an official but not core project, I'm keen to help the +evolution at this area. From stackforge to big tent to constellation, we're +continuing to explore different approaches to embrace the challenge. So far, +we have generally got some positive responses for the idea of constellation, +but we do need more details to shape it. And I’m happy to raise my hand. +Personally, I’d like to see a focal point/TC member is assigned for each +important use-case/constellation, who will be responsible for driving the +collaboration and integration for that user case. + +#3 Diversity and Inclusion + +Though OpenStack is a community with good diversity and inclusion, we do still +need some work at this area given there are more and more contributors from +different countries with different languages and cultures. As a Chinese living +in New Zealand, I truly understand the pain of crossing/removing the language +and culture barrier. I have been working with world wide contributors for the +past 5 years, so I believe I can help at this area by sharing/documenting my +experience and drive some activities to bridge the different languages and +cultures. + +#4 Integration and Collaboration + +As a distributed cloud platform, it's good to decouple different services to +make each service do one thing well. However, seems most of projects are solely +focusing on their own offering and not enough projects are paying attention to +the global impact. I would like to push a more tighter collaboration between +projects and obviously it will make the integration more easier and efficient. +Operators should expect different projects can work together smoothly just like +they're different parts within one project. As a maintainer of a public cloud +running on OpenStack, I know the pain of our ops, when they try to migrate a +service or adding a new service in existing cluster. So I'd like to see more +interlocks between PTL and TC members to understand the gaps and fill the gaps. + + +It would be an honor to be member of your technical committee. Thanks for your +consideration! + +-- +Feilong Wang +