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+Hi everyone,
+
+I would like to propose my candidacy and continue serving as Quality Assurance
+PTL in the Z cycle.
+
+I have been serving as PTL of QA for the last 2 cycles during which we
+have done ton of work, finished outstanding tasks and resolved many bugs.
+
+I would like to thank all the contributors, core reviewers, and anyone
+involved in any QA project, without you the maintaining of the projects would
+simply not be possible.
+
+My priorities in the Z cycle will be:
+
+ * Finding and guiding new contributors to QA projects - this is very
+   important, in order to keep up we need more active contributors.
+
+ * Keep decreasing the bug counts and watching over open reviews as these are
+   cruical activities to keep us moving forward.
+
+ * Complete priority items from the previous cycles.
+
+Thanks for your consideration!
+-- Martin Kopec (kopecmartin)