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+Hi,
+
+I'd like to nominate myself to serve as the Kolla PTL for the Ussuri cycle.
+
+I have been PTL for the Train cycle, and would like the opportunity to continue
+to lead the team. In my Train nomination [1] I proposed a few things,
+including:
+
+* help those on the periphery of the project get more involved
+* try a new meeting time
+* hold a virtual PTG
+* adopt some of ironic's planning and tracking processes
+* continue improving CI testing
+
+During the cycle we have helped a number of new contributors get involved, and
+have taken on a new core contributor who is already one of the most active
+members. We polled for a new meeting time but found we were already optimal.
+The virtual PTG helped us to prioritise our efforts, and I expect we'll hold
+another this cycle.
+
+We now use a whiteboard [2] similar to ironic's, and went through a process of
+prioritisation of features for this cycle which we continue to use to guide our
+efforts. Finally, CI test coverage continues to improve - notably the new
+multinode upgrade job caught a pretty nasty MariaDB upgrade bug that we might
+not otherwise have spotted before release.
+
+If elected this cycle I'd like to continue to reflect on our processes, and
+encourage increasing test coverage for further stability.  We recently added
+Kayobe [3] as a project deliverable, and I intend to ensure that these two
+overlapping communities come together effectively to make the most effective
+use of our combined resources.
+
+Thanks for reading,
+Mark Goddard (mgoddard)
+
+[1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2019-March/003617.html
+[2] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/KollaWhiteBoard
+[3] https://docs.openstack.org/kayobe