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Hey everyone,
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I am announcing my candidacy to continue on the OpenStack Technical Committee.
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I am employed by Huawei and lucky enough to have a full-time focus on
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OpenStack. I have been contributing since the Icehouse release. I served as
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Cinder PTL from Mitaka through Pike, and was elected to the TC last spring. I
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am currently serving my second cycle as Release Management PTL.
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During the last year on the TC, I have tried to be pragmatic and open to reason
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on governance changes. I do think some proposals need healthy debate with a
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really long term mindset to understand how changes now can impact our community
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long term. I also think we need to pay a lot of attention to how proposals
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impact the sometimes seemingly minor affect they will have on all those
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currently involved, and how it impacts developer happiness and the attraction
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of working on an OpenStack project.
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I've learned a lot from the other TC members and others participating in these
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discussions. This last year has been very rewarding, and I've been glad to do
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my part to move these conversations forward.
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My voting on past changes can be perused here:
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https://review.openstack.org/#/q/project:openstack/governance+reviewedby:%22Sean+McGinnis+%253Csean.mcginnis%2540gmail.com%253E%22
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Outside of specific governance proposals, I have been working on getting
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involved in the operators community by attending the last few Ops Meetups to be
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able to get face to face with more of the folks actually using OpenStack. I've
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found it very valuable to hear directly about what kinds of issues are being
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run into and what kinds of things we might be able to change on the development
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side to make things better.
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Part of the outcome of that has led me to be more interested in our stable
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policy, and helping out more with stable branch reviews. Many operators are not
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able to get to a version, for one reason or another, until we have deleted the
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branch upstream. I was happy to support our recent efforts in changing out
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stable policies to allow a bigger window that might allow a resurgence in
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interest for some of these older branches once more users are actually able to
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run them and find issues.
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I do think it is good to have some new faces on the TC, but would love to serve
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another term. I feel like the first year was partly just getting settled in,
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and I would be very happy to continue to serve another term to keep things
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going. OpenStack has been one of the best communities I've been involved in,
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and I would love the opportunity to continue to do what I can to help support
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it and help it grow.
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Thank you for your consideration.
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Sean
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