Aeolus Mission voting. VOTE REQUIRED BY NOVEMBER 19 PLEASE.

Hugh Brock hbrock at redhat.com
Fri Nov 16 22:22:08 UTC 2012


On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 04:27:55PM -0500, Mo Morsi wrote:
> On 11/16/2012 03:28 PM, Hugh Brock wrote:
> > Mission Statement Voting
> >
> > OK... I promised to schedule a vote for today and naturally I am
> > behind. The good news is this means you guys have the weekend to think
> > about this.
> >
> > A bit about process. Having been through a substantial mission
> > statement exercise already, I'm not inclined to lengthen the process
> > much further by accepting further tweaks. I am therefore going to
> > exercise the mighty ><}}}*> one final time and reduce the nominees for
> > Aeolus Mission Statement to three. I hope you all will view this less
> > as an act of oppression and more as an act of getting the hell on with
> > it :).
> >
> > In voting, I would urge you all to remember that a mission statement can
> > and probably should be aspirational -- our software may not fill our
> > mission today, but we intend that it will someday, and that new
> > additions to Aeolus will be included or not based on how well they will
> > help us fill the mission.
> >
> > The choices, then, are:
> >
> > 1. Aeolus mission: To provide superior tools and workflows for flexible
> > construction, management, and monitoring of multi-instance systems
> > across clouds. (This is the original version we concocted at the dev
> > conf.)
> >
> > 2. Aeolus mission: To provide superior tools and workflows for flexible
> > construction, management, and monitoring of multi-instance deployments
> > across clouds. (Modifications by Giulio Fidente and Justin Clift,
> > received at least one endorsement on list.)
> >
> > 3. Aeolus mission: "To provide open source tools for the management
> > and monitoring of cloud based systems." (Alternative from Mo Morsi. Mo
> > says: "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?")
> +1
> 
> Thanks Hugh, is it in bad taste to vote for my own option? ;-)

Nope :). If you wouldn't vote for it, don't say it.

--H

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== Hugh Brock, hbrock at redhat.com                                   ==
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