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Hi,
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I'd like to nominate myself to serve as the Kolla PTL for the Train cycle.
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I've been a user and developer of Kolla and Kolla Ansible since 2016 -
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initially while at Cray, but my upstream contribution really started in earnest
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when I joined StackHPC two years ago. I became core in May last year.
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I am passionate about this particularly operator-driven and community-led
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project, and started the Kayobe [1] project that allows deployment of an
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OpenStack control plane to bare metal using Kolla, Kolla Ansible and
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Bifrost.
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The flip side of being an operator-driven project is that contributors come and
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go, and even regular contributors don't always have as much time as they might
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like. That said, the project is very much alive in terms of code and review
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contributions. I'd like to help those on the periphery of the project to get
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more involved. Kolla is also a very global project, with many contributors in
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Asia particularly. This is really healthy, and I'd like to try out a more
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APAC-friendly IRC meeting time and a virtual PTG to keep everyone involved.
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I'm lucky enough to also be an Ironic core (I don't intend for that to change
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if elected Kolla PTL), and it's been interesting to compare how these two quite
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different projects operate. The Ironic team does a great job of planning and
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tracking their work, making use of a whiteboard [2]. I'd like to try adopting
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a lightweight version of some of these practices in Kolla.
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As the project matures, stability becomes increasingly important. This is
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particularly true for the images, which are used by multiple projects. We've
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been working on improving our CI testing this cycle, but still have a way to
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go. I want to make sure that work continues, to ensure we can continue to make
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changes with confidence, whatever the hype cycle throws at us.
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Thanks for reading,
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Mark Goddard (mgoddard)
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[1] https://kayobe.readthedocs.io
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[2] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/IronicWhiteBoard
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