Fwd: Promoting Patryk Diak to Approver role in OVN-Kubernetes

[Surya Seetharaman]

Hello Community!

It gives a lot of pleasure to formally announce that the current maintainers have decided to add a new approver to the OVN-Kubernetes project - Patryk Diak!

Let's congratulate Patryk on this promotion.

Cheers,

Surya

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Subject: Promoting Patryk Diak to Approver role in OVN-Kubernetes
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From: Surya Seetharaman <suryaseet...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
To: Nadia Pinaeva <npin...@nvidia.com>, Jaime Caamaño Ruiz <jcaa...@redhat.com>, Girish Moodalbail <gmood...@nvidia.com>, Tim Rozet <tro...@nvidia.com>

Hello Maintainers!

 I am starting this thread to get votes on making Patryk an approver in OVN-Kubernetes.

I think he has brought in a lot of contributions to the project in terms of writing and reviewing code equally and is someone who has a high level of ownership and responsibility. I trust him to have merge rights. Till date he has contributed:

1. ovnkube-identity for better security
2. Egress Service refactor for Interconnect mode of deployment
3. UserDefinedNetworks Services implementation on L2 and local gateway, endpoint slice mirror controller and several other important fixes
4. UDN Perf/Scale improvements
5. BGP implementation for Layer2 UDNs
6. Migration of VMs into OVN-Kubernetes with pre-configured addresses

He also holds CI quality and has contributed to fixing flakes several times in the past.

I have also seen him regularly reviewing PRs and leaving useful and surgical feedback on them.

Recently, he has also shown up more in the community meetings and started taking on more responsibilities and increasing collaboration.

Let me know what you all think.

Cheers,

Surya

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From: Jaime Caamaño Ruiz <jcaa...@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
To: Surya Seetharaman <suryaseet...@gmail.com>
Cc: Nadia Pinaeva <npin...@nvidia.com>, Girish Moodalbail <gmood...@nvidia.com>, Tim Rozet <tro...@nvidia.com>

+1

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From: Tim Rozet <tro...@nvidia.com>
Date: Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
To: Jaime Caamaño Ruiz <jcaa...@redhat.com>, Surya Seetharaman <suryaseet...@gmail.com>
Cc: Nadia Pinaeva <npin...@nvidia.com>, Girish Moodalbail <gmood...@nvidia.com>

+1

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From: Jaime Caamaño Ruiz <jcaa...@redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2025 8:23 AM
To: Surya Seetharaman <suryaseet...@gmail.com>
Cc: Nadia Pinaeva <npin...@nvidia.com>; Girish Moodalbail <gmood...@nvidia.com>; Tim Rozet <tro...@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: Promoting Patryk Diak to Approver role in OVN-Kubernetes

 

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From: Nadia Pinaeva <npin...@nvidia.com>
Date: Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
To: Surya Seetharaman <suryaseet...@gmail.com>, Jaime Caamaño Ruiz <jcaa...@redhat.com>, Girish Moodalbail <gmood...@nvidia.com>, Tim Rozet <tro...@nvidia.com>

+1

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From: Surya Seetharaman <suryaseet...@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2025 13:48
To: Nadia Pinaeva <npin...@nvidia.com>; Jaime Caamaño Ruiz <jcaa...@redhat.com>; Girish Moodalbail <gmood...@nvidia.com>; Tim Rozet <tro...@nvidia.com>
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From: Girish Moodalbail <gmood...@nvidia.com>
Date: Sat, Nov 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
To: Surya Seetharaman <suryaseet...@gmail.com>, Nadia Pinaeva <npin...@nvidia.com>, Jaime Caamaño Ruiz <jcaa...@redhat.com>, Tim Rozet <tro...@nvidia.com>

+1 from me as well.

 

 

 

From: Surya Seetharaman <suryaseet...@gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
To: Nadia Pinaeva <npin...@nvidia.com>, Jaime Caamaño Ruiz <jcaa...@redhat.com>, Girish Moodalbail <gmood...@nvidia.com>, Tim Rozet <tro...@nvidia.com>
Subject: Promoting Patryk Diak to Approver role in OVN-Kubernetes

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Hello Maintainers!

 

 I am starting this thread to get votes on making Patryk an approver in OVN-Kubernetes.

I think he has brought in a lot of contributions to the project in terms of writing and reviewing code equally and is someone who has a high level of ownership and responsibility. I trust him to have merge rights. Till date he has contributed:

1.      ovnkube-identity for better security

2.      Egress Service refactor for Interconnect mode of deployment

3.      UserDefinedNetworks Services implementation on L2 and local gateway, endpoint slice mirror controller and several other important fixes

4.      UDN Perf/Scale improvements

5.      BGP implementation for Layer2 UDNs

6.      Migration of VMs into OVN-Kubernetes with pre-configured addresses

He also holds CI quality and has contributed to fixing flakes several times in the past.

I have also seen him regularly reviewing PRs and leaving useful and surgical feedback on them.

Recently, he has also shown up more in the community meetings and started taking on more responsibilities and increasing collaboration.