From 2675759685201e08a4982f641ce202f318975c27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Swartzlander Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 16:43:59 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Nominate bswartz for Manila PTL Ben Swartzlander is running for Manila PTL for Newton cycle. Change-Id: If2d7541a3b40dba114ef6a59fe05efe319312b2c --- candidates/newton/Manila/Ben_Swartzlander.txt | 27 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) create mode 100644 candidates/newton/Manila/Ben_Swartzlander.txt diff --git a/candidates/newton/Manila/Ben_Swartzlander.txt b/candidates/newton/Manila/Ben_Swartzlander.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..920cceb2 --- /dev/null +++ b/candidates/newton/Manila/Ben_Swartzlander.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +I am running again for the position of Manila PTL. + +Since the self nomiation period is in the middle of bugfixing I'm not going +to write up a long campaign speech. + +Mitaka has seen a lot of successes: +* Continued growth of the community +* More new drivers (first party and 3rd party) +* Major new feature merged (share replication) +* Infrastruture improvements needed for migration + +There have been some challenges too: +* Gate is still not reliable +* Overwhelming number of bugs +* Distro-related problems with new first party drivers + +If elected PTL for Newton I plan to prioritize finishing the things we've +started over starting new things. We have overwhelming evidence that big +things take more than 6 months to get completely right and the experimental +API approach we started in Liberty is paying off. + +I want to wrap up migration and replication. I want to solve the issues +related to our first party drivers. I want to drive bugs down to a +manageable level. And I want to start promoting experimental things to +supported APIs. + +-Ben Swartzlander