My candidacy for Kilo Compute PTL
This is mostly historical at this point, but I forgot to post it here when I emailed it a week or so ago. So, for future reference:
I'd like another term as Compute PTL, if you'll have me. We live in interesting times. openstack has clearly gained a large amount of mind share in the open cloud marketplace, with Nova being a very commonly deployed component. Yet, we don't have a fantastic container solution, which is our biggest feature gap at this point. Worse -- we have a code base with a huge number of bugs filed against it, an unreliable gate because of subtle bugs in our code and interactions with other openstack code, and have a continued need to add features to stay relevant. These are hard problems to solve. Interestingly, I think the solution to these problems calls for a social approach, much like I argued for in my Juno PTL candidacy email. The problems we face aren't purely technical -- we need to work out how to pay down our technical debt without blocking all new features. We also need to ask for understanding and patience from those feature authors as we try and improve the foundation they are building on. The specifications process we used in Juno helped with these problems, but one of the things we've learned from the experiment is that we don't require specifications for all changes. Let's take an approach where trivial changes (no API changes, only one review to implement) don't require a specification. There will of course sometimes be variations on that rule if we discover something, but it means that many micro-features will be unblocked. In terms of technical debt, I don't personally believe that pulling all hypervisor drivers out of Nova fixes the problems we face, it just moves the technical debt to a different repository. However, we clearly need to discuss the way forward at the summit, and come up with some sort of plan. If we do something like this, then I am not sure that the hypervisor driver interface is the right place to do that work -- I'd rather see something closer to the hypervisor itself so that the Nova business logic stays with Nova. Kilo is also the release where we need to get the v2.1 API work done now that we finally have a shared vision for how to progress. It took us a long time to get to a good shared vision there, so we need to ensure that we see that work through to the end. We live in interesting times, but they're also exciting as well.
I have since been elected unopposed, so thanks for that!
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Related posts: Juno Nova PTL Candidacy; Review priorities as we approach juno-3; Thoughts from the PTL; Havana Nova PTL elections; Expectations of core reviewers
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