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Greetings Zorillas & other Stackers,
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I would like to submit my candidacy to be the PTL of Manila for the Ussuri
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cycle. I have been a contributor to OpenStack since the Liberty release and a
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maintainer of Manila and its associated deliverables since the Ocata release. I
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have had the opportunity to work closely with, and learn from, two stellar
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engineers who have served as PTLs so far. I've also had the privilege of
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collaborating with contributors from varied backgrounds. This
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taught me the technical aspects of orchestrating Open Infrastructure Storage at
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cloud scale. I attribute the tremendous growth of the project to each of us in
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the project internalizing and espousing the "OpenStack Way" of upstream
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open-source development. My strongest qualification for this job is that I wake
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up excited about the problems we're solving. As an engineer I see features left
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to implement; as an ambassador, I see untapped use cases; as a maintainer, I
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see new contributors and technical debt. So, if you'll have me, as the PTL, I
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will work towards maturing Manila, tackling its technical debt, advocating its
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usage and sustaining its neutrality. I'll also continue doing the thing I love
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most: mentoring new members and preserving this well-knit community.
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In the near term, I propose that you and I:
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- Continue hard on the path to growing contributors: Stein/Train was an
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exciting time for us; we worked hard on this goal! We lowered the barrier of
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entry for new contributors by relaxing our review norms [1] and provided
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quick and easy tutorials [2] to bootstrap with our free and open source
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storage drivers, among many other things. We had an opportunity to mentor
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interns under Outreachy [3], Google Summer of Code [4] and the Open
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University of Israel [5] internship programs. Let's do more of this and
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ensure we have able successors. Let's also mentor reviewers and create more
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maintainers.
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- Complete integration to openstackclient/openstacksdk and evolve manila-csi by
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reaching feature parity to the rich feature-set we already provide.
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- Continue the work on reliability, availability and fault tolerance of
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individual components and allow for more flexible deployment scenarios.
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- Gather feedback from edge/telco/scientific computing consumers and address
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pain points.
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Thank you for your support,
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Goutham Pacha Ravi <gouthampravi@gmail.com>
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IRC: gouthamr
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[1] https://docs.openstack.org/manila/latest/contributor/manila-review-policy.html
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[2] https://docs.openstack.org/manila/latest/contributor/development-environment-devstack.html
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[3] https://www.outreachy.org/apply/rounds/may-2019-august-2019-outreachy-internships/#openstack-openstack-manila-integration-with-openstack-cli-os
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[4] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#5067835716403200
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[5] https://review.opendev.org/#/q/committer:gilboa.nir%2540gmail.com+status:merged
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