Add Brian Haley (haleyb) candidacy for Neutron PTL

Change-Id: Id362bde3a8fec98503c16014e6d64332701ff0b0
Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <haleyb.dev@gmail.com>

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+Hello Openstack Community,
+
+I am writing to submit my candidacy for the Neutron PTL position
+during the 2026.2 cycle, continuing in my role that started in
+the 2024.1 cycle.
+
+My priorities as PTL are mostly the same as in previous cycles:
+
+* Always make sure the stable branches are consumable downstream.
+  With the introduction of unmaintained branches, the community has
+  extended the lifecycle in a new direction. As a member of the
+  downstream community that relies on these branches, I will continue
+  to dedicate part of my time to reviewing backports and keeping them
+  maintained.
+
+* Continue to make sure Neutron stays ahead of governance timelines.
+
+* Continue pursuing CI stability.
+
+* Reduce the bug backlog. Over the past cycle we were able to keep
+  our bug backlog constant through the continued great work of a lot
+  of contributors. Having a reduction, either through verification
+  or bug fixes, continues to be one of my goals.
+
+* Introduce features for new use cases as they arise. There is a
+  constant submissions of RFEs to the project, and making sure
+  we address these use cases from, sometimes, new users of Openstack
+  can only help us to grow the community.
+
+* Making sure we are good stewards of gate resources.
+
+* Always welcome new contributors.
+
+* Increase ownership in neutron-* and networking-* sub-projects.
+  I will make it a goal for this cycle to have more of the contributors
+  in these projects be involved in bug triage, reviewing code submissions
+  from others, as well as help with CI-related upkeep in the respective
+  projects. Through this effort I hope to give more people merge rights
+  to ease the burden on the neutron-core-reviewers team.
+
+Thanks for your support.
+
+-Brian Haley (haleyb, haleyb.dev@gmail.com)
+