Merge "Add Goutham Pacha Ravi candidacy for Manila PTL"

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+Hello fellow zorillas and other interested stackers,
+
+I'm expressing interest to continue serving as PTL for the OpenStack Manila
+team through the Yoga cycle. I've used my great privilege in this role to
+affect the community in many small and significant ways over the past four
+cycles. It has been a smooth ride because of stellar contributors who're
+beyond motivated and enthusiastic to develop and maintain impactful
+software while having fun. The enthusiasm is bolstered by grit to be a
+team with a difference. We jump at the opportunity to help a user or mentor
+and welcome new contributors or back each other up and help get stuff done,
+regardless of the "barriers" of affiliation. I enjoy being the occasional
+enabler to this camaraderie.
+
+During the Xena cycle, we mentored two Outreachy interns and on-boarded
+several new contributors. We added sub team core maintainers in the
+manila-tempest-plugin project and a new core maintainer across the manila
+repos. We drove down bug backlogs through bug squash weeks, swarmed to work
+on the OpenStackClient with a hack-a-thon and crushed the goal to drive down
+tech debt. We kept the momentum on several multi-cycle efforts such
+as OpenStackSDK integration, Secure RBAC, Active/Active HA.
+The Yoga cycle will be critical in our efforts to drive some of these
+multi-cycle efforts to closure.
+
+So, if you will have me, I wish to serve you through the Yoga cycle
+and get things done. I would tell you it's going to be the best release ever;
+but I would hold out the distinction for the Zorilla cycle - yes that's
+what we'll name it, what other cool name will we have anyway :)
+
+Thank you for your support,
+Goutham Pacha Ravi <gouthampravi@gmail.com>
+IRC: gouthamr
+[1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2021-August/024346.html