Greeting,

Over the last release, I have had the privilege and honor to serve as the PTL
of Magnum. I would like to take this opportunity to express my appreciation
for all your support and contribution to Magnum. And I look forward to working
with you all over the next release. Therefore, I would like announce my
candidacy to serve as the Magnum project team leader for the U cycle, if you
will have me.

In case if you don't know me, I've been working on and contributing to Magnum
since Queens release as a core developer. And I have done a lot work for Magnum
to help it getting production ready, e.g. the Calico network driver, nodes
anti affinity, k8s health status check, Keystone auth, coreDNS autoscale,
rolling upgrade, auto scaling, auto healing, private cluster, getting Magnum
certified by CNCF and etc, etc. That said, I really understand the ups and
downs which Magnum went through and I know the blueprints, direction and pains
of this project, for interests from both private cloud and public cloud sides,
which make me a good candidate for the PTL position.

For U release (including the rest of Train cycle), things I'd like to do:

1. Fedora CoreOS

The most matured driver for Kubernetes in Magnum is Fedora Atomic, however, the
Fedora community is moving to Fedora CoreOS, so we should start to think about
the migration. We have started the work but haven't finished it due to the
limited resource among the team. This need to be done in Train or early of U
cycle.

2. Node groups

Node groups provide users with the ability to specify groups of nodes with
different properties for different purposes. Within the scope of a group users
are able to define labels, used image, flavor, etc depending on the purpose.
We have merged part of this huge feature, but we do need to finish the rest of
the work.

3. Security hardening

Security is always the most important area we would like to improve for Magnum,
there are still parts we need to improve to make Magnum more securer.

4. Containerize Kubernetes master

This could be one of the most interesting features for Magnum and it's
definitely hard work. Running Kubernetes master nodes in a seed/root Kubernetes
could bring us a lot of benefits.

5. Rolling upgrade for node operating system

With the big support from CERN, We have done the k8s version rolling upgrade,
but we still need the rolling upgrade work for node operating system. I have
already got a patch for that being reviewed now.

It has been a fantastic experience working with this amazing team and I know
without the dedication and hard work of everyone who has contributed to Magnum
we can't get those good work done. So the PTL of this cool team is most like a
facilitator, coordinator, and mentor. I would be pleased to serve as PTL for
Magnum for the U cycle and I'd appreciate your vote.

Thanks for your consideration!