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Adding Infra contributors is a top 5 opportunity 

Our community has pointed needs for systems and services to
accelerate development and help ensure production of quality
software. Maintenance of and support using this infrastructure risks
falling victim to a tragedy of the commons, so inform those looking
for somewhere to make a difference that this is a great place to do
so.

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@ -77,3 +77,54 @@ Glance PTL (rosmaita), the TC sponsor for this item (flaper87) or starting a new
email thread on the ML using the tag `[glance]`.
.. _`Glance`: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/projects/glance.html
3. Community Infrastructure Sysadmins
=====================================
The Infrastructure_ team is responsible for designing, building and
maintaining the systems that are used in the day to day operation of
the OpenStack project as a whole; this includes development,
testing, and collaboration tools. All of the software it runs is
open source, and under public configuration management so that
everyone in the community has the opportunity to participate. One
very effective way to get involved in OpenStack, gaining a deep
understanding of and visibility within the community, is by helping
operate this infrastructure. Attrition due to shifts in employment
or availability of personal time impacts the team's ability to
support the community effectively, and so there is a constant need
for new contributors who can commit to investing sufficient effort
to overcome the steep learning curve associated with these varied
technologies.
Because our community is global, its support needs span most
timezones. Unfortunately, the bulk of long-term contributors to
Infrastructure are concentrated in the Americas and so this leaves
APAC and EMEA community members with far fewer options for immediate
assistance with urgent issues. Gaining more contributors who are
active during those times (whether they live in those parts of the
World or not) would provide a substantial benefit to the community.
This is not necessarily as easy as it sounds because it's harder to
get as much overlap with the current bulk of the team for shadowing
and knowledge transfer, but there are still some existing team
members in those timezones who can help mitigate that somewhat.
In particular, the team seeks developers and systems administrators
with a background both in maintaining Unix/Linux servers and free
software, and places heavy emphasis on systems automation and
configuration management (primarily Ansible and Puppet at the
moment). Everything possible goes through code review, and gets
extensively documented and communicated with the rest of the
community over IRC and mailing lists. Server resources are donated
by companies operating OpenStack services, and the team also
operates a persistent deployment of OpenStack too, so there is
substantial opportunity both for people who have experience in those
technologies as well as anyone wishing to gain more familiarity with
them.
Join the #openstack-infra channel on the Freenode IRC network or
reach out through the openstack-infra mailing lists on
lists.openstack.org if you would like to get involved. It's a
rewarding chance to learn and help others, but most of all it's fun!
.. _Infrastructure: :ref:project-infrastructure