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+Hello everyone,
+
+ I’m Sampath Priyankara. I would like to announce my candidacy to continue as
+PTL of Masakari for the Rocky development cycle. In Queens, we mainly focused
+on bugfixing, documentation, add new features and become an official OpenStack
+project which is one of the most important achievements from Queens.
+
+For Rocky, I would like to continue to focus on:
+- Recovery method customization feature and integration with Mistral
+- OpenStack Ansible support for Masakari
+- Masakari Dashboard ( Horizon plugin for Masakari)
+- Continue to work with OpenStack HA team to develop OpenStack resource
+  agents as an alternative for masakari-monitors.
+- Ironic Bare Metal instance HA support
+
+ While working on above development, I think it is equally important to focus
+on raising awareness and adoption of Masakari, improve diversity of the team,
+and improve cross project/community communication and support. I will make my
+best effort to find more users, more reviewers and more developers for
+Masakari.
+
+Finally, I would like to thank you all Masakari contributors for your hard work
+over past cycles, and all OpenStack community members for your valuable
+comments, opportunities, and all the help you gave. Also, thank you for
+considering my candidacy.
+
+- Sampath Priyankara (samP)