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Hello Nova (and Placement) fellows,
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That's been some time I started to work on OpenStack and Nova in particular
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(I leave you guessing it [1]) but I feel this is time for me to run for the
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Nova PTL election and ask you to accept me for this hot seat (which is not a
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Yoga mat).
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First and foremost, I'd like to thank gibi for the hard work he did on the
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previous cycles, especially during this (hopefully) transient situation we
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currently face which challenges us in terms of teamwork. Running our team
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gatherings virtually twice is awfully exhausting and I also thank you all
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for supporting this situation. Hopefully our next PTG will be the last virtual
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one but who knows.
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I personally feel Nova now entered a period of quiet but productive pace. We
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accepted a solid amount of blueprints over the past cycles but we also
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delivered a decent ratio of them. That said, many challenges occur as of now
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which as a PTL I have the intention to continue to stress on and engage
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discussions between us how to solve them :
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- CI stability : We recently faced a couple of bugs that prevented us to merge
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code and I have the feeling that some of them are intertwined. I'd like us
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to identify all the stressing bits so we could prioritize any kind of tech
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debt fix that would help to gain better stability and not treat them as
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just standard bugs that we only look after our feature delivery duties.
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- Upgrades : I'm very happy to say we solved the long-running problem of
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version-to-next upgrades which are now painless. We have a couple of tools
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for helping operators to gain confidence before upgrades and we also have CI
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jobs that prove their stability. That said, I personally feel we now have
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another dimension of upgrades we barely scratched to define and I would like
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us to think about them. Placement reshapes and fast-forward-upgrades are for
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example two new features that Nova supports but I'd like us to take a second
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and identify all the improvements we could make for those (and prioritize
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efforts accordingly)
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- Contributors diversity : I don't think there is any surprise if I say that
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our Nova community is smaller than before. I don't think it's a problem and
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as I already said, we're productive. No, the concern that I have is that I'd
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love to have a way to help contributors that are maybe not having time to
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develop on Nova as a primary day-to-day job. We started to discuss on ways
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to define review priorities and I would like to pursue this direction by
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wondering what and how we could do for those contributors.
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Either way, I truly respect the ideal of Open Design. Whatever Nova becomes or
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evolves in the future, every single contributor is part of it and my role will
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be to make sure we have a consensus.
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Thanks,
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-Sylvain
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[1] 0x7DD
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