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Message #16877
Re: TC Candidacy
+1 !
Thank you for your working hard for CI :)
2012/9/19 Monty Taylor <mordred@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi everybody!
>
> I'd like to run for a seat on the Technical Committee.
>
> - OpenStack Experience -
>
> I run the CI and Developer Automation team for OpenStack. There hasn't
> always been a team, but as long as there has been, I've been doing it.
> Before there was a proper team, there was Soren and I, and before that
> there was just me. I set up the original Tarmac-based trunk gate that we
> used before Gerrit, and I'm the original owner on many of the Launchpad
> resources (because it turns out some human must be the ultimate owner of
> things there) So it's pretty easy to say without boasting that there is
> very little about the tooling that runs the project that I don't know
> about, both in its current form and the history that got us to its
> current form.
>
> My commits and reviews can be seen here:
> https://review.openstack.org/#/q/reviewer:mordred%2540inaugust.com+OR+owner:mordred%2540inaugust.com,n,z
>
> - Other Experience -
>
> I work at HP where I lead a team of people who staff the rest of the CI
> team. I do what I can as part of my job there to ensure that the
> OpenStack Dev systems always have the resources they need to operate
> effectively. Before HP I worked at Rackspace doing the same thing.
>
> Before OpenStack at Rackspace I was a core developer on Drizzle, having
> moved with the rest of the Drizzle team to Rackspace when Sun got bought
> by Oracle. I was lucky enough to get involved in Drizzle hacking from
> the beginning of that project while I was a Senior Consultant for MySQL
> Inc (and then for Sun when we got bought) Although it doesn't come up in
> this context very often, I'm pretty stinking good at MySQL Scaling and
> High Availability. I've been a Python hacker since I wrote the SNPP
> protocol library for Python in 2000, and have experience as both a
> developer and a *nix sysadmin stretching back to 1994.
>
> Recently I became a member of the Python Software Foundation, and I sit
> on the OpenStack Foundation Board.
>
> - Why I should be on the Technical Committee -
>
> The TC provides direction to the project as a whole and acts as a
> collaboration point and focus for consensus between the projects. Often
> times things that are decided by the TC have a direct effect on the
> automation systems that we use to run things ... so having someone from
> the CI and Automation teams represented seems like a really good idea.
> Additionally, since I tend to be cross-project focused rather than
> involved in any one specific project, I'd like to think that I have a
> decent unbiased perspective on issues that are related to project
> agreement and consistency.
>
> Thanks for your consideration!
> Monty
>
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