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+I intend to continue serving as Swift PTL.
+
+I was going to attempt to enumerate some sort of grand vision for Swift and our
+priorities for the next cycle. As I thought about it, though, I realized these
+remain largely the same as they always have been: provide durable, scalable
+storage for diverse use-cases without the need for specialized hardware and in
+a way that allows both users and operators to be successful. In short, we will
+continue to deliver the best object storage we can.
+
+The exact details of how we do that may vary somewhat from cycle to cycle. The
+last six months we've seen a lot of polishing of operational features, notably
+container sharding and shrinking, part power increases, and error detection.
+We'll likely continue working in these areas, and expand into larger
+replication improvements.
+
+I'll do what I can to help, both directly (by improving Swift) and indirectly
+(by, for example, fixing broken gate jobs and flaky tests).