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