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Howdy,
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I am announcing my candidacy as Chef OpenStack PTL for the Newton release cycle.
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In the Mitaka cycle, we've accomplished quite a bit, with an incredible velocity.
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The core cookbooks underwent a significant refactor, removing some 18k lines of
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code and refactoring another 4k lines. We also saw the introduction of
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integration tests in our gates, as well as some third-party vendor support
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in Liberty. With the initial round of refactoring completed for Mitaka, we have
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a more streamlined set of cookbooks upon which to build additional features.
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Being under the big tent is not easy, and we have great challenges in front
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of us. My main goal for the Newton cycle is to further reduce the barrier to
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entry to the cookbooks, so that we can more easily welcome new contributors
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and hopefully more adoption.
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- Documentation
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I'd like to place an emphasis on more documentation. I believe that this
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will enable downstream developers and operators to better uptake newer releases
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as well as contribute back to the project. Our users need better guidance when
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it comes to best practices when using the cookbooks.
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- Continuous Integration
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We've done a lot on CI, with the integration jobs, but we must also test
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different deployment scenarios as proof of concept that a downstream user can
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take these same cookbooks and deploy a production-ready OpenStack cluster.
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- Community engagement
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I would like to further our collaboration with other projects, notably
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OpenStack Infra and upstream packagers (Ubuntu Cloud Archive and RDO), but also
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other OpenStack projects like Heat, TripleO, Magnum, Tempest and Documentation.
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This collaboration makes the OpenStack ecosystem better by providing more
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freedom of choice for users when deploying OpenStack. We must continue that
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with coordination and maintaining strong lines of communication.
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I would greatly appreciate your support for the PTL role for the Newton cycle,
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and I'm looking forward to growing the Chef OpenStack team.
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Samuel Cassiba (sc`)
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