diff --git a/candidates/rocky/Glance/jokke_.txt b/candidates/rocky/Glance/jokke_.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..89cd3e0e --- /dev/null +++ b/candidates/rocky/Glance/jokke_.txt @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +Hi all, + +I would like to take the opportunity to announce my candidacy for +Glance PTL for Rocky cycle. + +I've been working primarily with Glance since Icehouse and do work +full-time on Glance upstream. During that time I've served community in +stable and release liaison roles, as Glance and Glance stable core +reviewer and part of Glance bugs, drivers and security teams. I've been +part of team running Glance in sizeable public cloud and been part of +development of couple deployment tools: Helion lifecycle manager and +TripleO. Needless to say that production stability and scale has always +been on the top of my priority list. Thus it's likely not a surprise +that I like to identify the high points of my contributions being the +work to get Images API v2 production ready and lately driving the +efforts on Image Import Refactoring that provides the new Interoperable +Image Import that changes how images are brought into Glance by our +end users. Both things making sure that Glance stays as integral part +of OpenStack deployments and we as community do not need to reinvent +wheel to get image service that can be trusted in future production +deployments. + +I've seen lots of the highs and lows of the Glance (community/project) +and am super proud that we've survived them and the fact that we're +still going strong. Same time the two last cycles have thought me an +important lesson, I'm not at my best writing code no matter how much I +like it and I cannot take full time support role and full time writing +code. The support side enabling the people better suitable for writing +the code is definitely the part of my contributions where I shine more. + +Thus I'd like to take the support role for Rocky cycle as PTL and focus +my efforts to make sure we as a community keep going strong into the +future cycles and the people who do shine brighter writing the code +than I do could focus more of their time to that. Obviously that would +not mean that I'd be taking distance to the development and driving the +efforts or stop writing code all together. It's more of a matter where +should I prioritize my time? + +So where do I see our focus for the foreseeable future? + +* Strengthening the community needs to be at the top of our priority + list. While we're afloat and the team is operational we are by no + means at the optimal point of Glance developement. Enabling new + contributors to be effective and successful is important work that + needs to keep happening. + +* Bug and stable work needs to pick up at my own part again. I've been + leaving that way too light lately and as team we haven't taken care + of our stable branches as well as we should. + +* We need to work on finishing the work we're committing to and + prioritized. This also highlights the fact that we need more hands + on the deck as if everyone is focusing on putting out fires, it does + not matter how much we want to prioritize the work that is happening. + +* When the crew is running light it's even more important to listen + our user comminuty to what prioritize. we need to keep focusing on + features and fixes that are actually needed and keep the nice to + have stuff on the correct level of efforts. + +* On the technical side I see our priorities being strengthening the + Image Import so that it can be fully relied on production. We need + to make sure that our tools are operational for upgrades and the + lifecycle management and we definitely need to work towards making + sure we get rid of Images API v1 and don't need to waste any of our + precious time to keep that codebase still alive. If we can achieve + these by early Rocky we would be in so much better place to move + forward. + +Looking the past Glance PTLs there is big boots to fill and I would +do my best not to fail the expectations. + +Thanks for getting all the way down here and I hope we will work +together next cycles to make Glance being the best Glance possible. + +Erno jokke Kuvaja