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Hi everybody!
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Just like with my queens platform[1] I've spent a lot of time asking myself
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*if* I should run for the PTL position. Given I'm writing this it's pretty
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obvious that I chose to ;P From there the next question is why should the
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community elect me? As many others have pointed out serving as PTL is an
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honour and my impact in the community has been reducing for the last 12 months
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:(
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For me the key is that the Stable Branch Maintenance "project" is in a major
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state of change with the very fuzzy Longer life stable branches[2] and the
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potential for altering the development cycle length[3] each of which has the
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potential to drastically alter how the stable branches operate, let alone
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combined. Also since the Boston summit there has been a move to pull Operators
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and Developers together ins SIG[4] and I'm wondering if that makes sense for
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the stable branch maintainers.
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Like most teams we need more contributors, the stable branch gate while it
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enjoys a lot of stability for the last 2 cycles has begun to decline. A
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disturbing trend we need to not just halt but reverse.
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So my objectives for the next cycle are:
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1. Work with the TC, UC, Operators and Developers to remove some of the fuzz
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from the longer life stable branch discussion[5].
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2. Work with the TC to ensure that stable branch maintenance is considered
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when we look at altering the development cycle
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3. Reduce the number of periodic gate failures back to Ocata levels.
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4. Give it all I can
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Thank you for reading.
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Tony.
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[1] http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/election/plain/candidates/queens/Stable_Branch_Maintenance/tonyb.txt
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[2] For better ot worse LTS is so tied to the Ubuntu implementation that I avoid that acronym in this context
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[3] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-December/125473.html
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[4] https://ttx.re/introducing-sigs.html
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[5] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-November/124308.html [6]
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[6] No I don't really expect you to read it all now
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[7] If you read this far let me know next time you see me ;P
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