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+Hi everyone,
+
+I would like to nominate myself for the PTL role of the QA in the Xena cycle.
+
+This would be my first PTL service, however, I have been contributing to
+Tempest for several years and have been a core contributor for over a year now.
+I'm also a core in refstack projects (python-tempestconf, refstack and
+refstack-client).
+
+A few things I would like to focus on in the Xena cycle:
+
+ * Get Tempest scenario manager effort [2] finished - we started actively
+   working on this ~2 cycles ago and we have made a significant progress.
+   After it's done we will declare the interface stable which will help to
+   decrease the code duplicity among tempest plugins which is directly related
+   to the maintenance difficulty.
+
+ * Keep decreasing the bug counts
+
+ * Decrease the number of open patches. Although many projects suffer from not
+   enough personal resources, we can't let the contributors go out of their
+   steam by making their patches to wait in the queue for too long.
+
+ * Complete priority items from the previous cycles
+
+
+[1] https://www.stackalytics.com/?user_id=mkopec
+[2] https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/tempest-scenario-manager
+
+Thanks for your consideration!
+-- Martin Kopec (kopecmartin)