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Once more before the mast! I'm running for reelection to a third
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term as Infrastructure PTL. In my four years as a core reviewer and
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root sysadmin for OpenStack's community-maintained project
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infrastructure, I've strived to uphold the principles of open
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collaboration and welcoming participation which define our team.
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https://wiki.openstack.org/user:fungi
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As in the past, I intend to continue making sure that our community
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has a wealth of free and open tools available to ease contribution
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of all kinds and increase the velocity of innovation under
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OpenStack's mission. I want to make sure that our success can be
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held high as an example of how interested individuals and companies
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can come together to create and improve a commons of benefit not
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only to themselves, but to all.
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I like to use this time to reflect on major efforts we've undertaken
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over the current development cycle, as we do so much that we often
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forget the magnitude of our accomplishments: We increased the size
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of our infra-root sysadmin team again, further improving our
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coverage in EMEA and APAC timezones. We more than doubled the
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quantity of donations for server resources available to run CI jobs.
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We replaced nearly all our servers, upgrading them to a more recent
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operating system release. We finished removing Jenkins from our CI
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toolchain, significantly altering the way jobs are dispatched and
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increasing our overall CI efficiency as a result. We remotely built
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a working OpenStack deployment from donated hardware using
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openly-maintained automation and configuration management, and are
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starting to use it to augment our available test resources. We
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introduced a mechanism by which projects can declare system software
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dependencies to their developers, and now leverage this to install
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required packages at job run-time. We added several new Linux
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distributions to our AFS-backed package mirror CDN. We now have
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cryptographic signatures accompanying release tarballs generated by
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our automation. Storyboard is becoming increasingly usable, and
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stories/tasks can now reflect updates from associated Gerrit
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changes. Our jobs and toolchain have been updated to support a new
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LTS distro version for testing Newton. And these are just the tip of
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the iceberg... there's so much more I'm probably still forgetting!
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The above accomplishments are not mine to claim, but when we work
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together as a team and as a community we all benefit from one
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another. I spent the cycle attempting to pair willing volunteers
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with tasks that piqued their interests and challenged their skills,
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bringing increased visibility to the needs of under-served corners
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of the community and less actively maintained software in our
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toolchain, and throwing myself into those unexciting sorts of tasks
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that don't find sufficient volunteers but still needed to get done.
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If this is what you want out of a team lead, I'm happy to do it
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again!
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