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Hi,
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My name is Renat Akhmerov. I decided to run for Mistral PTL for Newton release cycle.
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I've been working on the project since its initiation. I've been driving it, designing
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architecture and did a lot of coding, especially in the first year. I try to review all
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the patches coming in. I've also been presenting the project at lots of conferences
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including OpenStack summits for more than two years. I think we've done a great work
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together with the team to put Mistral to where it is now. Thanks to everyone who worked
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with us. Special thanks to folks from Mirantis, StackStorm, Huawei, Catalyst IT, Nokia,
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Alcatel-Lucent, 99Cloud, RedHat and Nec.
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Mitaka was really the first cycle when I felt huge growth of interest to the project
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in the community. The number of emails and people coming to our IRC channel became
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really impressive. I'm now completely convinced that what we're doing is demanded.
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As far as technical contribution, I should admit that Mitaka was not the best cycle
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for us. And I'm taking responsibility for it. I didn't have a chance to work on the
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project significant part of my time, hence not so many things were done in the project
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from what we planned in Tokyo. Despite that, we were able to fix a number of important
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issues and added several important new features as "Resource sharing between tenants"
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and new actions for some of the OpenStack projects that we didn't support: Barbican,
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Swift, Trove etc. Now Mistral is integrated natively with almost all core OpenStack
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services. As far as my personal contribution, I again have an opportunity to spend
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significant time working on Mistral. I'm still passionate about the technology we're
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making, have lots of ideas that I'm willing to get implemented and I feel hunger to
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work on all of that. I'm still seeing that one of the most important pieces of work
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is making Mistral work in HA mode reliably. We now have a certain plan for it and
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started working on its implementation.
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Other things that I'd love to address during the Newton cycle are:
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* Implement RESTful API and CLI of version 3 that would fix all visible downsides of
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version 2
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* Significantly improve Mistral usability when using both CLI and UI
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* Significantly improve Mistral documentation
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* Provide clear guidance and tooling for developing custom actions
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What I am already proud of is the workflow language that we've designed. I don't
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see many ways how we should be improving it. In my opinion, it balances simplicity
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with power very well and for that reason it is perceived by users very positively.
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My goal is still to build a really useful and beutiful technology.
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