Merge "Adding Takashi Kajinami candidacy for Puppet OpenStack PTL"

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+Hello,
+
+
+I'd like to announce my candidacy for the PTL role in Puppet OpenStack, to
+continue my PTL role for the Antelope cycle.
+
+Over the past two cycles, we've successfully improved feature coverage,
+platform coverage and simplicity of our modules. I'd like to list up a few
+items which would be our priorities during the next cycle.
+
+
+* Add Ubuntu 22.04 support
+
+This would be the next major change after we've completed implementation of
+CentOS 9 Stream support. We already adapted to Ruby 3 as part of C9S support
+so I'm not aware of any huge challenges at this moment.
+
+
+* Complete migration to Puppet 7
+
+Currently our modules still supports both Puppet 6 and 7. However once we
+complete migration to Ubuntu 22.04, we complete migration from Ruby 2.x to 3.x.
+As Puppet officially supports Ruby 3.x since 7.7, this means we no longer
+maintain test coverage with Puppet 6. It's time to consider again complete
+migration to Puppet 7.
+
+
+* Improve scenario/component coverage by CI
+
+During Zed cycle we added OVN and Octavia to the integration jobs. We'll review
+a few remaining modules like Manila and will continue extending the component
+coverage.
+
+
+* Review unmaintained/unused modules
+
+In Puppet OpenStack projects we maintain number of modules to support multiple
+OpenStack compoents. However, some modules have not been really active and
+attracted no interest. In the past few cycles we have retired several modules
+but I'd like to continue reviewing our modules to consider retiring inactive
+ones.
+
+
+* Keep each module up to date and simple
+
+It's always important that we add support for the new features/parameters
+timely so that users can leverage the new capability via our modules.
+
+
+Thank you for your consideration.
+
+Thank you,
+Takashi