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Glance Contributors
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Summary
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The OpenStack community is seeking contributors and maintainers for
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:doc:`Glance <../../projects/glance>`, the disk image management service for
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OpenStack clouds.
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Business Case
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Glance is a critical service in OpenStack: it is a hard requirement for Nova,
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and as such is used in practically every OpenStack cloud. Due to the small size
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of the current Glance team, any investment in upstream Glance maintenance would
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result in a meaningful reduction in business risk for any organisation that
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relies on OpenStack clouds.
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As a relatively small component that is nevertheless fundamental to OpenStack
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clouds, Glance also presents a good opportunity for an organisation to build
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expertise in OpenStack development processes that it can later apply to
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furthering its other interests in OpenStack.
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Technical Details
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Glance is looking for new contributors who would be willing to provide reviews,
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to work on bugs, or to work on new features. Glance has welcomed interns,
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junior developers, and more senior developers. In every case, it is a great way
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to grow and contribute to OpenStack.
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Part of the work of a maintainer is in simply responding to changes (in
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dependent libraries, or other OpenStack components), and in investigating and
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fixing bugs as they are discovered.
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However, Glance is not feature-complete - there remain opportunities to take
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meaningful ownership of parts of the project by reducing technical debt or
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`implementing features`_.
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Finally, maintainers can help ensure that the :doc:`../../../goals/index` for
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each cycle are implemented. This is essential for allowing the OpenStack
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project as a whole to move forward in cases where changes must be co-ordinated
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across every project.
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Contact
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You are welcome to contact the :doc:`Glance PTL <../../projects/glance>` (Erno
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Kuvaja) or any member of the `core review team`_ directly for advice on how to
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get involved.
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To get started, join the Glance IRC channel (``#openstack-glance`` on `OFTC
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<https://www.oftc.net/>`_) or reach out to the OpenStack-discuss `mailing list`_
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using the ``[glance]`` tag in the subject line.
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.. _`implementing features`: https://specs.openstack.org/glance-specs/specs/untargeted/index.html
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.. _`core review team`: https://review.opendev.org/#/admin/groups/13,members
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.. _`mailing list`: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-discuss
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