On 11/13/2012 08:53 AM, Mo Morsi wrote:
Responded privately, but Hugh suggested I send it to the general list so
here it is
On 11/10/2012 05:37 AM, Hugh Brock wrote:
* 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."
Can we remove the words 'superior' and 'flexible'? IMO they don't add much.
Also are we just focusing on 'multi-instance systems'? Isn't providing
simple tools to build images and launch a single instance against any
generic cloud provider part of Aeolus?
Yes, this came up in our discussions at the conference too. The
difficulty is that it quickly starts to get awkward when you start
adding a bunch of "or" clauses -- "single or multi-instance..." My take
is that, it's easy enough to assume that if you can handle
multi-instance systems, the degenerate case where "number of instances
== 1" is clearly included too. If we don't mention multi-instance,
that's an important use case that isn't obviously considered, just from
the mission statement. Also, looking at the actual focus of what we're
building, we _are_ more focused on multi-instance systems -- even if,
we've always included "deployment size of 1" in the definition of
multi-instance system.
Scott
Perhaps one way to condense it would be:
"To provide open source tools for the management and monitoring of cloud
based systems"
Just a suggestion, rather not overdiscuss this, am down for whatever the
team wants to go with.
-Mo
