Sure, both good points. Pull requests welcome! https://github.com/crowbar/crowbar.github.com
P.S. Simon can you confirm that we should be editing this repo directly? I see there is also https://github.com/crowbar/raw.crowbar.github.com which appears to be a generator, but this commit suggests that it is no longer used? https://github.com/crowbar/crowbar.github.com/commit/959f480a620234ee2f7f26df3d78296de8ce6f48 John Terpstra ([email protected]) wrote: > Perhaps we could consider not only stating what Crowbar does, but also > provide a summary of its key benefits. This should help to explain WHY > someone might want to use Crowbar. > > From: crowbar-bounces On Behalf Of Judd Maltin > Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 11:08 AM > To: Adam Spiers > Cc: crowbar > Subject: Re: [Crowbar] What is Crowbar exactly? > > Might want to say, "bare-metal to fully-provisioned production services" and > take out cluster, because cluster is prone to imply one service, where > Crowbar deploys many services. > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Adam Spiers > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > I think the problem here is that "move" is a confusing choice of verb, > because Crowbar doesn't really move anything: rather it transforms the > state of those servers. I've fixed the wording. > > Simon Jakesch ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) wrote: > > Matthew, > > > > let me try and answer your questions. In the referenced blurb physical > > nodes refers to the actual server/box/computer/physical compute unit. > > Whereas bare-metal is referring to the state (specifically as far as > > software is concerned) of said physical node. Put more simply, we're > > talking about servers without any software or any type of configuration > > whatsoever performed on them. > > Configuring and installing those servers is referred to as "moving" them > > from one state (bare-metal) to the next state where they are configured, > > installed and part of a cluster. > > > > Hope this doesn't just make sense to me, let me know if you have further > > questions. > > Simon > > > > From: crowbar-bounces On Behalf Of Work > > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 2:48 PM > > To: crowbar > > Subject: [Crowbar] What is Crowbar exactly? > > > > Hello Dell, > > > > Your home page for the Crowbar project > > (http://crowbar.github.io/home.html)'s big top blurb says > > > > "The Crowbar Project is an effort to build a complete, easy to use > > operational platform for everyone. It allows for any number of physical > > nodes to be moved from bare-metal to production cluster within hours." > > > > What do you mean by 'any number of *physical nodes* to be //moved// from > > *bare-metal* to *production cluster*? > > > > What is the definition of a physical node, and how is it different from > > bare-metal? > > > > A production cluster makes sense; I assume it is a cluster of physical > > bare-metal nodes. So this leads to the final question: What are you moving > > and from where? > > > > Thanks, > > Matthew Kaufman > > SPCLOPS.COM<http://SPCLOPS.COM><http://SPCLOPS.COM> | > > 202-407-7998<tel:202-407-7998> > > > _______________________________________________ > > Crowbar mailing list > > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/crowbar > > For more information: http://crowbar.github.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Crowbar mailing list > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/crowbar > For more information: http://crowbar.github.com/ > > > > -- > Judd Maltin > T: 917-882-1270 > F: 501-694-7809 > what could possibly go wrong? > _______________________________________________ Crowbar mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/crowbar For more information: http://crowbar.github.com/
