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I'd be honored to continue to serve as your PTL for OpenStack Swift.
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Looking forward to the Queens cycle, I expect current, ongoing work to
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continue. Yes, we'll work on solving the next technical challenges for
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the project. We'll make progress on container sharding and make
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improvements to the consistency engine. We'll do what we can to
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enhance testing and testability. We'll improve the way we store data
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so that we can take advantage of all the resources modern storage
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servers come with. We'll continue to ensure that Swift is the best
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open source object storage system available, but the hardest
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challenges we face are not technical.
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The hardest challenge any community faces is that of ensuring its own
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health for long-term sustainability. Our individual project is over
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seven years old now, and many of the most active contributors to the
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project, myself included, have been involved since the early days. We
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have had new contributors join--we've had around 700 contributors so
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far--and we've seen valued members of the community leave for various
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reasons. We must ensure that our community welcomes new contributors
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and supports them as they learn how Swift and the Swift team works.
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These community sustainability questions are what I've been thinking
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about lately, and this is what I'll focus on as PTL during the Queens
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cycle. I think one important fact to realize is that there will always
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be more people using Swift than are contributing to Swift. This simple
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fact should encourage us to realize that despite how shifting
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corporate strategies affect our contributor count, we must focus on
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developing and delivering software that solves problems that people
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have.
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We are developing software that is meant to be used. As I have said
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many times before, I hope to see Swift used by everyone, every day,
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even if they don't realize it. When we focus on solving storage
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problems and making our software the best it can be, we will see this
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vision realized.
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