My name is Boris. I'm announcing my candidacy for Rally PTL for the Mitaka release. Few years ago I started Rally to help OpenStack community to simplify performance/load/scale/volume testing of OpenStack and actually make it simple to answer on question: "How OpenStack perform (in ones very specific case)". Rally team did a terrific job to make from just a small initial 100 line script, project that you can see now. It covers most of the user cases, has plugins for most of the projects, high quality of code & docs, as well it's simple to install/use/integrate and it works quite stable. However we are in the middle of our path and there are plenty of places that should be improved: * New input task format - that address all current issues https://github.com/openstack/rally/blob/master/doc/specs/in-progress/new_rally_input_task_format.rst * Multi scenario load generation That will allow us to do the monitoring with testing, HA testing under load and load from many "different" types of workloads. * Scaling up Rally DB This will allow users to run non stop workloads for days or generate really huge distributed load for a quite long amount of time * Distributed load generation Generation of really huge load like 100k rps * Workloads framework Benchmarking that measures performance of Servers, VMs, Network and Volumes * ...infinity list from here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/16DXpfbqvlzMFaqaXAcJsBzzpowb_XpymaK2aFY2gA2g/edit#gid=0 In other words I would like to continue to work as PTL of Rally until we get all this done.