On 10/11/2012, at 11:37 AM, Hugh Brock wrote: > Hello Aeolus community! > > You've seen some mails over the past week about the Aeolus developer > conference.
First dev conference I've been too, and was very nifty. Definitely worthwhile attending these things. ;) <snip> > * We split into teams, each of which came back with a proposed Aeolus > mission statement. After much discussion we refined the four > proposals into one which reads: > > "Aeolus mission: to provide superior tools and workflows for flexible > construction, management, and monitoring of multi-instance systems > across clouds." > > Please ACK or NACK-with-suggestions the mission statement by > November 13. ACK. Have seen Giulio's suggestion too, but "clouds" sounds simpler and more relevant to our audience than "cloud providers". (to me anyway) <snip> > * We agreed that in the future the membership of each Cabal would be > determined by nomination and on-list ACKs, and that terms of > membership should align roughly with release boundaries. Members are > free to serve for as many terms as they like however if re-elected. ACK. > * We agreed to propose a roughly six-month release cycle, subject to > adjustments as needed by the Release Cabal. The next two releases > will be on a bit shorter cycle to get us better aligned with > downstream release boundaries: the Release Cabal will propose a > release integrating Factory 2.0 and Deltacloud 1.0.x by the end of > 2012 (i.e. two sprints away), followed by another release around the > end of March which will hopefully include a complete Aeolus API. The > first couple of meetings of the Technical Cabal will finalize the > feature priorities for those two releases. ACK. > * Each Cabal should have its first meeting the week of November > 12. Meetings can be via hangout, IRC, or whatever the Cabal chooses, > but minutes should be published to aeolus-devel. ACK. > I'd like everyone with commit access to an Aeolus project to respond > with either ACK or NACK + suggestions to the above proposals, and to > the proposed Cabal membership lists, by November 13. I will consider > failure to respond by November 13 an ACK, as well as an indication > that you're not paying attention. > > Third: Matt Wagner, the acting Awesome for the Publicity Cabal, > has volunteered to collect all the presentations given and make them > available on aeolusproject.org. I'll take charge of getting him the > ones I already have, but if you didn't send your slides to me before, > make sure you send them to him now please. > > Thanks once more for all the hard work that went into the week. I am > very excited to see what comes next as we begin pushing planning and > feature development upstream and making our releases available to a > wider audience. ACK² :) + Justin -- Aeolus Cloud Evangelist http://www.aeolusproject.org
