Aeolus Mission voting. VOTE REQUIRED BY NOVEMBER 19 PLEASE.

Scott Seago sseago at redhat.com
Mon Nov 19 03:16:08 UTC 2012


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.)
I'm going to vote for #2, but only barely above #1. My reason being that 
I feel #1 and #2 are essentially equivalent -- I have a slight 
preference for 1, but 2 seems to have more support, and I prefer either 
#1 or #2 by a wide margin to #3.

tl;dr: my vote is for #2.

Scott

> 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?")
>
> Vote for one by end of Monday, please.
>
> Thanks,
> --Hugh
>




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