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+Hello OpenStack community,
+
+I would like to announce my candidacy for PTL of Designate for the Antelope
+cycle.
+
+I would like to continue to support the Designate team for the Antelope
+release. As predicted, we have continued to focus on cleaning up technical
+debt and improving the test coverage. For a small team, we have accomplished
+a lot in the Zed release, though we could use more reviewers to help with the
+backlog of patches in need of review and comments. I expect the code cleanup
+will continue, but I hope we can also focus more on some of the proposed
+features that are in flight.
+
+Thank you for your support and your consideration for Antelope,
+
+Michael Johnson (johnsom)
+