Merge "Adding Renat Akhmerov candidacy for Mistral"

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+Hi,
+
+I'm Renat Akhmerov. After a year break I'd like to announce my PTL candidacy
+for Mistral in Train cycle.
+
+In the last two years we've been mainly focused on improving Mistral
+performance and the reason for this was that some big users began to adopt
+it for their production needs. The amount of work done in this area was
+huge and the result is orders of magnitude boost for a number of use cases.
+
+Although much was done and the core of the technology is pretty mature now,
+there's still a lot ahead:
+
+1. Continue to improve performance (e.g. "join" tasks)
+2. Make the technology more product-like. That is, eliminating obvious gaps
+   in the documentation (inconsistent structure, lack of tutorials, etc.),
+   installation and configuration tools, tools for developing custom actions
+   and functions easier and plugging them in easier. The ultimate goal here
+   is to make sure that a new user can start using the technology within
+   minutes, and the experience should be as positive as possible.
+
+Another thing that I'd like to do is to attract more talented and qualified
+contributors, i.e. to make the project community stronger. So if one has
+interest in working on Mistral we're always open and ready to help witn
+getting up to speed.
+
+Most likely, not all of the things mentioned above will be done in Train
+but I want to make sure we finally started addressing #2 in a more serious
+way than before.
+
+The best way to get in touch with us is IRC channel #openstack-mistral or the
+openstack-discuss mailing list (with [mistral] tag in email subject).
+
+Renat