On 11/13/2012 10:05 AM, Scott Seago wrote: > 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.
This isn't clear in the "multi-instance systems across clouds" mission statement. Forgetting instances, deployments, everything else, the end user is going to see "multi" and think: multi > 1. We have to look at the mission statement from the perspective of a completely new potential user who is encountering the website for the first time. -Mo
