working with the BOSH team

[colins]

Adding Colin Shield (colins) as approver to:

• Disaster Recovery (BBR)
• Stemcell Release Engineering (BOSH)
• VM deployment lifecycle (BOSH)

[beyhan]

Hi @colins,

I used contributions-for-user.sh to generate below your contributions which we require for the promotion. Is there a reason to apply for a faster promotion path? Promotion requirements are documented here. We have such exceptions if there is a reason and approver in the koresponding areas are OK with that.

Foundational Infrastructure: Stemcell Release Engineering (BOSH) Contributions

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Code contributions:

Foundational Infrastructure: VM deployment lifecycle (BOSH) Contributions

PRs Commented on/Reviewed:

Issues that may be relevant:

Code contributions:

• 2023-02-07T18:48:39Z: Update index.yml
• 2023-02-14T23:36:24Z: Update index.yml
• 2025-11-06T20:46:08Z: The test was failing as it was choosing the wrong datastore on which to deploy the ephemeral disk for the VM. This was caused by several things:

Foundational Infrastructure: Disaster Recovery (BBR) Contributions

PRs Commented on/Reviewed:

Issues that may be relevant:

Code contributions:

• 2026-03-03T21:18:02Z: New manifest to deploy a postgres 15 server
• 2026-03-03T22:59:52Z: Add a postgres 16 deploy manifest
• 2026-03-04T22:11:57Z: Set the property to use the correct version of postgres for 15 and 16
• 2026-03-04T22:46:30Z: Added support for Postgres 16
• 2026-03-04T23:00:52Z: Add package for PG 16
• 2026-03-04T23:58:11Z: Pipleline changes to run postgres 16
• 2026-03-05T19:48:02Z: Add branch specifier to bump job
• 2026-03-05T19:49:10Z: Fix bump-blob task for first-time blob additions
• 2026-03-06T00:53:24Z: Add ICCU flags for pg16
• 2026-03-06T22:15:52Z: Cleanup CI changes (from main)
• 2026-03-19T22:47:52Z: Add RDS connectivity check to system-tests-external-dbs-rds

[aramprice]

FYI the automation can take a few hours to finish running.