I am writing to submit my candidacy for re-election as the PTL for the Trove project (Ocata cycle). I have been an active technical contributor to the Trove project since just before the Icehouse release when Trove was integrated into OpenStack. I have also contributed code[1] and reviews[2] to some other OpenStack projects, and have been an active participant in the Stewardship Working Group [3] (SWG) and a not-so active participant in the Delimiter project. Ocata is a short cycle, and based on some discussions within the community, and feedback from users, I believe that we should continue to build on the progress and improvements that we were able to acheive in the Newton cycle, and focus on: - paying down our technical debt, including specifically some long standing items that were listed by the TC at the time when Trove was integrated, and improving our testing, addressing some long standing issues with dependencies between the server and the client, and - making it easier to use Trove by delivering tools to simplify guest image creation, and improving the commands and API for registering datastores and images, and - improving the Trove API documentation, and - strengthen the community and foster new members and companies who wish to contribute to Trove, and work closely with new participants to improve their experiences using Trove, and - adding support for clustering in some databases (potentially Couchbase), refactoring the guestagent for PostgreSQL, supporting cluster upgrades, anding add support for additional database versions (like MySQL 5.7). I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all members of the development community who helped the Trove project during the Newton cycle; those who contributed code and reviews to the project as well as members of the infra, release, stable, oslo, docs, dib, and other project teams who helped us on innumerable occasions. Thank you, and I appreciate your support in the election. -amrith -- Amrith Kumar Email: amrith@tesora.com IRC: amrith GPG: 0x5e48849a9d21a29b [1] http://stackalytics.com/?user_id=amrith&release=all&metric=commits [2] http://stackalytics.com/?user_id=amrith&release=all&metric=marks [3] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/337895/