Aeolus Developer Conference Report. ACKS REQUIRED BY NOV 13.

Justin Clift jclift at redhat.com
Mon Nov 12 18:55:03 UTC 2012


On 10/11/2012, at 11:37 AM, Hugh Brock wrote:
> Hello Aeolus community!
> 
> You've seen some mails over the past week about the Aeolus developer
> conference.

First dev conference I've been too, and was very nifty.  Definitely
worthwhile attending these things. ;)


<snip>
> * 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."
> 
>  Please ACK or NACK-with-suggestions the mission statement by
>  November 13.

ACK.  Have seen Giulio's suggestion too, but "clouds" sounds simpler and
more relevant to our audience than "cloud providers". (to me anyway)


<snip>
> * We agreed that in the future the membership of each Cabal would be
>  determined by nomination and on-list ACKs, and that terms of
>  membership should align roughly with release boundaries. Members are
>  free to serve for as many terms as they like however if re-elected.

ACK.


> * We agreed to propose a roughly six-month release cycle, subject to
>  adjustments as needed by the Release Cabal. The next two releases
>  will be on a bit shorter cycle to get us better aligned with
>  downstream release boundaries: the Release Cabal will propose a
>  release integrating Factory 2.0 and Deltacloud 1.0.x by the end of
>  2012 (i.e. two sprints away), followed by another release around the
>  end of March which will hopefully include a complete Aeolus API. The
>  first couple of meetings of the Technical Cabal will finalize the
>  feature priorities for those two releases.

ACK.


> * Each Cabal should have its first meeting the week of November
>  12. Meetings can be via hangout, IRC, or whatever the Cabal chooses,
>  but minutes should be published to aeolus-devel.

ACK.


> I'd like everyone with commit access to an Aeolus project to respond
> with either ACK or NACK + suggestions to the above proposals, and to
> the proposed Cabal membership lists, by November 13. I will consider
> failure to respond by November 13 an ACK, as well as an indication
> that you're not paying attention.
> 
> Third: Matt Wagner, the acting Awesome for the Publicity Cabal,
> has volunteered to collect all the presentations given and make them
> available on aeolusproject.org. I'll take charge of getting him the
> ones I already have, but if you didn't send your slides to me before,
> make sure you send them to him now please.
> 
> Thanks once more for all the hard work that went into the week. I am
> very excited to see what comes next as we begin pushing planning and
> feature development upstream and making our releases available to a
> wider audience.

ACKĀ² :)

+ Justin

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