On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 03:42:16PM -0700, Ihor Antonov wrote: > - I often want to make sure that this is *really* the official AMI, some kind > of > link to the debian page that says "yes, this is indeed Debian's account ID > would make me feel more reassured.
Yes, I agree that this is important. At the moment there are at least two other sellers in the Marketplace with "Debian" listings, and this could be confusing. A big driver of the development of the current image build pipeline was a desire to declare our AMIs "official." We should be doing just that, and whatever else makes sense to clearly label ours as the only ones directly affiliated with the project. > - Next I often want to know when is the End of Life for this release, having > that information in AMI description would save time googling it. That makes sense. It might force us to discuss (again) the relationship of our projects with the LTS work... > - The reason why I use Debian AMIs is because they contain almost no bloat > (if > you compare to how much stuff is in Fedora or Ubuntu), so having a handy link > to AMI build configuration that tells you what packages are pre-installed is > a > nice thing IMHO Thanks. We have a manifest at this point, so this is probably not horribly difficult. > - I personally almost never read generic descriptions that usually say > something along the lines of: "this is a general purpose free OS, with so > many > packages, and founded in 1815, and GNU and bla bla Linus Torvalds.. " but it > may be only me. I would prefer this be replaced with something more concise, > like bullet points. Example: > > Debian 10 Buster > Webiste Url: https://debian.org > Debian cloud images: <url to the page that says that this is a really > official > ami" > AMI Configuration page: <url> > Release Number: 10 > EOL: ~ 2022 > Arch: x86 > > More info: <link to all the rest of the generic descriptions somewhere on > debian.og> Thanks for your feedback, this is all very helpful. noah
