From a49ae205c524e19343749ebad2b9908385994c1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Flavio Percoco Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:45:22 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Adding Flavio Percoco candidacy for Glance Change-Id: I4188f7b072439f4c1061046773cc09397b236729 --- candidates/mitaka/Glance/flavio_percoco.txt | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 70 insertions(+) create mode 100644 candidates/mitaka/Glance/flavio_percoco.txt diff --git a/candidates/mitaka/Glance/flavio_percoco.txt b/candidates/mitaka/Glance/flavio_percoco.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..af14b028 --- /dev/null +++ b/candidates/mitaka/Glance/flavio_percoco.txt @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +Greetings, + +I'd like to raise my hand and send my candidacy for Glance's PTL +position. If you've heard my name, it's entirely possible that you +hear it either for my Zaqar's PTL position or my current TC position. + +Before I go forward with my candidacy, allow me to say that I won't be +running for Zaqar's PTL position and that it's my intention to be +entirely focused on Glance[0]. I take being a PTL seriously[1] and I +strongly believe in the importance of focus when it comes to making +progress, which is what I'd like to base my candidacy on. + +Glance may seem a simple service but it's not as simple as many folks +think. It's small compared to many other projects but it's still +exciting to work on. Perhaps, even more important than how exciting it +is, we should all remember the impact this project has on the rest of +the community and how it impacts all the OpenStack deployments out +there. In addition to this, Glance remains one of the projects that +are considered part of the starting kit and it serves a very important +task in a cloud deployment. + +The reason I'm bringing the above up is because I believe we've +derailed a bit from that and that we should bring focus back on what's +the most important task for Glance, which is to serve cloud images in +a resilent, consistent and reliable way. This is not to say that +innovation should be stopped but it certainly shouldn't affect this +mission. + +I believe these are some of the most important topics that our team +should focus on are: + +- Collaboration with other projects to migrate OpenStack to use +- Glance's V2 API Collaborate with the defcore team to define a clear +view and support of what Glance provides and is. +- Increase V2 API stability and awareness. +- Improve Glance's gate story to make sure we cover enough scenarios + that are representative of existing deployments and use cases. + +By reading the above four points, it's clear that I think that lots of +our work should go on cross-project collaboration. However, I'd like +to extend that to cross-team collaboration. One of the things that I +believe has affected Glance a lot is the lack of interaction with +other teams, especially with OPs, when it came down to working on new +features that had an impact on users. Therefore, I'd like to help +increasing cross-team collaboration in Glance's team. + +As far as my involvement in Glance goes, I've been part of the team +since I started working on OpenStack. For the upcoming cycle, I'm +ready to dedicate my PTL duties entirely on the project and completely +focused on what's important to bring back focus and keep the project +growing but stable. + +As some of you know already, I'm also part of the Technical Committee +and I'll be up for election next April, which means I'll be part of +the TC for, at least, 6 more months. Being part of the TC takes time +and this is something you should keep in mind (as much as I +do). However, if I were to be elected as Glance's PTL, I'll dedicate +all my efforts and time - consider that my current job allows me to be +full time upstream - to just these to roles. + +It'd be a great honor for me to work together with the Glance team and +to keep sharing knowledge, experiences and work as I've been doing so +far but this time as a PTL. + +Thanks for reading thus far and for considering this candidacy, +Sincerely, Flavio + + +[0] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-September/074212.html +[1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-September/073986.html