From 9b0eafb6c3c50d47e3915a00989be801e0d8a8c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Monty Taylor Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 22:54:36 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Monty Taylor for Packaging-Deb PTL Change-Id: I04cf6c788967c97d2750110e9287b9a511cc95fa --- .../newton/Packaging-Deb/Monty_Taylor.txt | 28 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) create mode 100644 candidates/newton/Packaging-Deb/Monty_Taylor.txt diff --git a/candidates/newton/Packaging-Deb/Monty_Taylor.txt b/candidates/newton/Packaging-Deb/Monty_Taylor.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d6e4c573 --- /dev/null +++ b/candidates/newton/Packaging-Deb/Monty_Taylor.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +I would like to announce my candidacy for PTL of the Packaging-deb project. + +This might surprise some people, as it's not an area I'm sure many of you +associate me with. So I figure I should enumerate my qualifications: + +First and foremost - I am the only ATC in the project currently. + +Before that, I believe I qualify as a good candidate by having been one of the +maintainers of the last set of distro packages (Ubuntu at the time) that were +produced by the project. + +Before we had devstack, and indeed before we had Gerrit, we used to use a +system for the gate that consisted of a program called Tarmac, the predecessor +to Jenkins which was called Hudson, bzr branches on Launchpad - and a set of +PPAs containing packages. Changes to projects were tested against distro +packaged dependency sets, and the way that one expressed a new dependency +was to land a change to the Build-Depends of the project in question. + +It wasn't a great system - but it served us for that period of time. In any +case, the majority of the effort I spent on OpenStack in the Austin-Diablo +period was dealing with the debian packaging related to that. + +So as the only human who has landed patches in the current project repository +AND the only one of those to have maintained packages for the project, I think +I bring a singular set of qualifications to the job. + +I will try, should I be elected by the electorate, to ensure that we do not +reach the next PTL election with an electorate of one.