Hi Keith,
Keith Mitchell wrote: > Hi Jan, > > Jan Damborsky wrote: >> Hi Glenn, >> >> >> Glenn Lagasse wrote: >>> Hi Jan, >>> >>> * Jan Damborsky (jan.damborsky at devcom.cz) wrote: >>>> Hey Glenn, >>>> >>>> I have read through the spec - good work ! >>> >>> Thanks! I appreciate that. >>> >>>> Please see my comments below. >>>> >>>> Thank you, >>>> Jan >>>> >>>> >>>> I have couple of general questions - I am not sure if they should >>>> be reflected in functional spec or should be captured somewhere else, >>>> I think that knowing that information might help to verify if >>>> problem statement and project scope have been correctly identified: >>>> >>>> * what is the main target audience we would like to focus on and >>>> satisfy >>>> their needs by this project ? >>> >>> The target audience are people that want to create preconfigured >>> virtual >>> machines using the distribution constructor. >> >> Do we happen to know, what their requirements and expectations are with >> respect to what they can install into virtual image and what level of >> post install configuration will be supported ? >> For instance, I am thinking that some people would be interested in >> creating OpenSolaris based virtual appliances with application stack >> which might be available in different than IPS format - is it something >> we might want to consider ? > Based on a conversation from yesterday, our initial push will be for > the simple customization case of installing a custom set of packages > into the VM. Keeping the first phase of this project focused on > getting the infrastructure in place of automatically creating an image > should let us get that done and done right, and provide a good > foundation for adding customization features in later. understood - thanks a lot for clarifying this ! Jan
