From 02f96f32fd92ac9fdd10dbe3064613749e779f91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Dent Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 12:16:49 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Adding Chris Dent candidacy for Placement Change-Id: I1c4dfac507c220e07414350babd6e204283a7b5d --- .../train/Placement/cdent@anticdent.org | 54 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 54 insertions(+) create mode 100644 candidates/train/Placement/cdent@anticdent.org diff --git a/candidates/train/Placement/cdent@anticdent.org b/candidates/train/Placement/cdent@anticdent.org new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3570f62e --- /dev/null +++ b/candidates/train/Placement/cdent@anticdent.org @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ + +Hi, I'm announcing my candidacy for Placement PTL for Train. + +I've been working on the Placement service from the start. Helping +it become a straightforward HTTP API for managing resources and +their inventories, qualities, and use. I believe the primary focus +of the project should be to fulfill the promise of the service — to +make any variety of workload placement more reasonable-to-manage and +correct-to-use — while keeping the straightforwardness. + +Just as important is making sure the project, being newly +independent, settles in well. We will need time, attention and +patience to find our way. + +What we do as a group should be decided by the group. The role of +the PTL should be to help the group reach decisions smoothly and +make sure the information needed to make decisions is shared +broadly. + +To help understand how I think about Placement, here are some ideas +on areas we may wish to focus (if we agree): + +* Get the house in order. Get bug and feature tracking systems in + place and properly documented. Prepare the Forum and PTG. + +* Help other projects use Placement. Adding features to Placement is + often easier than taking advantage of those new features. A lot of + features exist that are not yet used to their full potential. + +* Attend to maintenance. Bug fixing, documentation, performance, + refactoring, gate management, and keeping clients up to date need + to have equal or greater attention than feature development. + +* Do what matters. Only add features that have clear customers and + use cases, and have committed owners responsible for long-term + maintenance. + +* Experiment. Contrary to the above, some of our time should be + spent discovering what may matter in the future and sharing those + discoveries: "Placement can help with that." Edge and multi-cloud + related use cases have plenty of potential. + +* Document. Fill in the gaps in documentation for users and + contributors. There's a lot of power in Placement and using it + most effectively is not as well-documented as it could be. + +* Be welcoming, fun, nice, and encouraging to everyone. + +I hope my history with the project is solid evidence for my +commitment to its success. I'm extremely proud of the work we've +done and optimistic about the positive impact we will have in the +future. + +Thanks.