On 11/13/2012 05:05 PM, Mo Morsi wrote:
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
Hmm. OK, I guess to me it's fairly clear that if we can handle >1, we
can handle 1 too, but I have no real objections to mentioning both, if
it can be done in such a way that everyone agrees to the wording. What
is essential, though, is that we do mention multi-instance systems,
since that's a huge part of what we do. In other words, by all means
lets make it clear that we handle "one or more instances" -- but not at
the expense of not making it equally clear that we handle complex
multi-instance systems well.
Scott
