Following many discussions on the user and dev lists in the past, a number of users seem to have problems with the old ansible methods for installing AWS.
I am not aware of anyone who is maintaining this area (please shout if you are willing to take on bringing this up to date) and we have a lot of outdated documentation on both the source tree and the wiki around older, now broken install methods. My proposal is that we consolidate the multitude of deployment methods, and: * remove or * Mark de-deprecated or * move to contrib The methods outside of the Ambari Mpack and full-dev methods of install. Does anyone have any thoughts about how we can clean this up and reduce the number of options that seem to be confusing new users coming to the platform? I am happy as long as the Ambari method currently used by the distributor (who, as you mostly know, I work for, in the interest of full disclosure) remains, and full-dev remains as is to avoid disruption to development process. I have no strong opinions on any of the other deployment methods, other than that their existence seems to be hindering new community members. Thoughts? Simon
