diff --git a/candidates/train/TC/zbitter@redhat.com b/candidates/train/TC/zbitter@redhat.com new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c570fabd --- /dev/null +++ b/candidates/train/TC/zbitter@redhat.com @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +Hello again friends, + +I'm running again for a second term on the Technical Committee. (For the +record, I don't plan to seek a third term next year.) I've been part of the +OpenStack community since 2012, and as well as a TC member I am also a core +reviewer for Heat and (since very recently) Oslo. + +I think of the TC as effectively the 'core reviewer' team for a larger group of +folks who participate in the governance of OpenStack (a group that I think we +should be aiming to expand even further). I'm deeply grateful to the community +for giving me the opportunity to work with what is a fantastic team of people. + +Here's what I've been up to in the past year on the TC: + +- I supported Julia's initiative to spread constructive code-review techniques +by distilling some of our annual endless threads on code-review etiquette +into a linkable page in the Project Teams Guide.[1] A number of people, in one +case an entire team, told me that they'd tweaked their approach to code review +after getting ideas from this document. (This feedback is *much* appreciated by +the way, because from the TC perspective it can be very hard to tell the +difference between achieving lazy consensus and shouting into the void.) + +- I wrote the draft of and edited contributions to what became the Vision for +OpenStack Clouds,[2] contacted every affected team to explain what it meant +for them individually, and presented it to the OSF Board in Berlin for their +feedback as well. + +- I helped drive the definition of a process for determining which versions of +Python3 should be tested in a release.[3] That should help us make the +transitions smoothly in future, though it unfortunately started too late for +Stein. + +- I've been actively engaged with members of the OSF Board on the topic of the +process for adding new Open Infrastructure projects to the Foundation, by +passing on feedback from foundation members and from the TC's own experience +with evaluating project applications, and trying to publicise the board's +position in the community.[4] + +It's hard to imagine being able to get any of those done without being a TC +member. As I've written elsewhere,[5] because the TC is the only project-wide +elected body, leading the community to all move in the same direction is +something that cannot happen without the TC. I plan to continue trying to do +that, and encouraging others to do the same. Thanks for your consideration. + +cheers, +Zane. + +[1] https://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/review-the-openstack-way.html +[2] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/technical-vision.html +[3] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/resolutions/20181024-python-update-process.html +[4] https://www.zerobanana.com/archive/2018/06/14#osf-expansion +[5] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2019-January/001841.html