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+Hi,
+
+I'm Renat Akhmerov. I'd like to announce my PTL candidacy for Mistral in
+Victoria cycle.
+
+In Ussuri, we kept improving Mistral performance to address use cases
+that desperately needed it. For the most complex known workflows the
+execution time has now dropped by 5-6 times. Besides lots of performance
+changes we also achieved:
+
+ * Restructured the documentation completely
+ * Fixed a number of documentation pages and added several new ones.
+   There's still a lot to do on that though.
+ * Made a big refactoring of Mistral actions and moved all OpenStack
+   actions into mistral-extra repo.
+ * Added namespaces for actions and workbooks
+ * Added a new cookiecutter-based template for creating Mistral action
+   projects.
+ * Fixed a number of important bugs (for "join" tasks, scheduler etc.).
+ * And lots of other changes..
+
+For V cycle I'd like to keep making Mistral more usable:
+
+ * Consistent and well-structured documentation
+ * More ways to create Mistral actions (including action providers)
+ * Additional tools that simplify creating custom actions and functions
+   for Mistral
+ * Easier debugging of workflow errors
+ * Easier and smoother installation process
+
+We're already making a good progress with all that and anybody who wants to
+participate is very welcome onboard.
+
+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