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Hi everyone,
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I'm announcing my candidacy for a position on the OpenStack Technical Committee.
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For those of you who don't know me yet, I'm Feilong Wang, currently
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working for Catalyst Cloud as head of R&D. Catalyst Cloud is a public
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cloud running on OpenStack based in New Zealand, before that I worked for IBM
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System & Technology Lab for OpenStack upstream work. As for OpenStack upstream,
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now I'm a core contributor of OpenStack Magnum and actively involve the
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integration between OpenStack and Kubernetes. Besides, I was serving as the
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PTL of Zaqar (OpenStack Messaging Service) for years. Before that, I was
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mainly working for Glance (OpenStack Image Service) as a core reviewer since
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Folsom 2012.
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In my opinion, currently the role of the TC is more important than ever. Some
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large companies already downsized their investment for OpenStack or switching
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their focus to containers/k8s, but meanwhile many companies from APAC,
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especially China, are heavily investing OpenStack. Although it's a pain to lose
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great contributors, the companies having real requirements for OpenStack are kept.
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It's a good time for us to think about how to define/care OpenStack, for whom
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we're building the software and how to build a collaborative/integrated community.
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As a TC member I want to bring focus in below areas:
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#1 Integration and Collaboration
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As a distributed cloud platform, it's good to decouple different services to
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make each service do one thing well. However, seems most of projects are solely
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focusing on their own offering and not enough projects are paying attention to
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the global impact. I would like to push a more tighter collaboration between
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projects and obviously it will make the integration more easier and efficient.
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Operators should expect different projects can work together smoothly just like
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they're different parts within one project. As a maintainer of a public cloud
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running on OpenStack, I know the pain of our ops, when they try to migrate a
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service or adding a new service in existing cluster. So I'd like to see more
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interlocks between PTL and TC members to understand the gaps and fill the gaps.
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#2 Users & Operators
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Listen closely to the voice of users and operators and this pretty much align
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with the mission of OpenStack as below.
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"To produce the ubiquitous Open Source Cloud Computing platform that will meet
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the needs of public and private clouds regardless of size, by being simple to
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implement and massively scalable."
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To implement a useful, stable cloud platform, we can't work behind closed
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doors, but closely work with the user and operator community. As far as I know,
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except the user survey, we don't have more formal process/approach to collect
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the feedback from our users and operators, though the operators mailing list
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and some random forum sessions at OpenStack summit are helpful. And IMHO,
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currently we’re mixing feedback collected from different perspectives. For
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example, most of the feedback from operators are how to easily deploy/manage
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the cloud. But the tenant user/developers' requirements are more related to
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functions, UX, etc. I can see we have put a lot of effort to address the pain
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of operators, but obviously, we do also need more work to make the tenant
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users/developer’s life easier.
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#3 Better UX
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This is the tiny part sometimes skipped by us. But I think it's important for
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us to put effort on. For example, we can release a docker image including all
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our openstack clients, so user don't have to deal with python depedencies.
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Another example is enforcing restricted API consistency across different
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services.
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It would be an honor to be member of your technical committee. Thanks for your
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consideration!
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--
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Feilong Wang
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