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Greetings. I am hereby announcing my candidacy for Nova PTL for Train.
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I am passionate about OpenStack, to the point where I (like many of you)
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changed companies so I wouldn't have to change jobs. My employer backs
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me as a 100% upstream developer and core in Nova and Placement, and
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fully supports my commitment to the role of Nova PTL if you'll have me.
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Nova is huge, in code as well as in history. I don't pretend to
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understand all (or even most) of it. It takes the cumulative skill of
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the whole team to make the project tick. I see the PTL as a facilitator
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and coordinator of that "group brain", making the whole greater than the
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sum of the parts. That takes organization, diplomacy, and patience:
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qualities I have demonstrated by running the nova-scheduler meetings,
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helping with the politics of extracting Placement, and engaging in tough
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and contentious design discussions in specs, PTGs, IRC, etc. As PTL, one
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of my main goals will be to keep those conversations moving and focused,
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avoiding unproductive tangents.
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We continue to face challenges in contributor (which includes reviewer!)
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participation. Partly this is due to the overall change in the character
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of the community; but I hope to break down barriers for new or part-time
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contributors who are willing and able to participate. In day-to-day
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operations this means being responsive and encouraging on IRC and
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gerrit. In forum and PTG sessions it means working to avoid the "echo
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chamber effect" and ceding the floor to these less-involved participants
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so they can be heard. I would also like to continue blueprint tracking
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including runways, which has been an effective way to ensure attention
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for efforts outside of our deemed main themes and priorities.
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Nova is on the cusp of being able to take advantage of advanced
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Placement features such as nested and sharing providers to solve some of
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the problems for which Placement was originally conceived. Nova will
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need to continue to work closely with Placement in its new position as
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an independent project. I intend to continue being an active Placement
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core regardless of the outcome of these elections to assist in that
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transition.
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We need to continue to foster our relationships with other teams,
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ensuring proper care and feeding of cross-project initiatives. This
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applies to the old guard (Cinder, Glance, Ironic, Keystone, Neutron, and
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Placement as noted) but also to nascent efforts such as Cyborg. This
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starts with forum and PTG logistics for Denver, and continues with
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constant communication during the cycle.
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I am aware that I am standing on the shoulders of giants. I'm not trying
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to do anything brilliantly new here. I want to follow the lead of my
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predecessors and continue to tap them for their expertise and experience
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to help Nova succeed in Train.
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Thank you for your consideration.
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Eric Fried (efried)
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(rhymes with 'deed', not with 'side')
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