17 years of your tireless contribution in building ceph, building community, helping all users across the world is just mind blowing. Tons of storage systems out there serving in the community is due to your tireless efforts. The community will surely miss you a lot but at the same time I am happy for the other social cause you are fighting for, with your energy and passion you will surely make a huge dent over there. Thank you for being such a great leader for the Ceph Community and providing a beautiful scale out storage system. On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 7:41 AM Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This fall I will be stepping back from a leadership role in the Ceph > project. My primary focus during the next two months will be to work with > developers and community members to ensure a smooth transition to a more > formal system of governance for the Ceph project. My last day at Red Hat > will be in December. > > I have been working on Ceph since 2004. I am immensely proud of what we > have accomplished over the last 17 years, and see a bright future for the > project. I continue to be excited by and inspired by Ceph and the impact > that open source storage has on the industry. I am especially impressed by > the recent influx of talented new developers to the project, and I have the > utmost confidence in and respect for the developer leads who are the > driving force behind the project today. I have no doubt that Ceph will > continue to thrive. > > > A few likely questions… > > -- Where am I going / What am I doing next? > > As many of you may be aware, I took a nine-month leave in 2020 to work with > VoteAmerica to help people vote in the US elections. This was a great > experience that reminded me what it was like to work on a small, > fast-moving team with a clear mission. I expect to do something similar for > the 2022 midterm elections, but I do not yet have concrete plans beyond > that, except for a desire to work on something with high social impact. > > -- Am I leaving Ceph for good? > > Initially, I expect to step back from a leadership role but continue to > contribute as a developer--at least for the short term. How much I > contribute will depend on other time commitments, which are not easy to > predict. My best guess is that I will continue to do some work on the > Quincy release but play a minimal role in the R release. > > -- What will Ceph project leadership look like going forward? > > The Ceph Leadership Team[1] has known about this coming transition for a > couple of weeks now and has been discussing models for more formal project > governance. We’ve been looking at other projects that have made similar > transitions (e.g., Python) for ideas and inspiration. Expect to see > messages to the email list(s) as we get closer to specific proposals. > > -- What does this mean for Red Hat's involvement in Ceph? > > My decision to leave Red Hat is unlikely to have any impact whatsoever on > Red Hat's ongoing use of Ceph or its commitment to the Ceph project and > community. > > Stay tuned for more information as the discussion around project governance > continues. > > It has been a great honor to see a vibrant user and developer community > form around Ceph, and to see so many people devote their time, energy, and > careers to a project that once seemed like such a long shot. Thank you all > for believing in us! > > With gratitude, > > sage > > > [1] https://ceph.io/en/community/team/ > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx
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