Aeolus Mission voting. VOTE REQUIRED BY NOVEMBER 19 PLEASE.

Jason Guiditta jguiditt at redhat.com
Mon Nov 19 14:46:18 UTC 2012


On 16/11/12 15:28 -0500, 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, though I think it should include 'construction' as the other 3 do.

-j
>Vote for one by end of Monday, please.
>
>Thanks,
>--Hugh
>
>-- 
>== Hugh Brock, hbrock at redhat.com                                   ==
>== Engineering Manager, Cloud BU                                   ==
>== Aeolus Project: Manage virtual infrastructure across clouds.    ==
>== http://aeolusproject.org                                        ==
>
>"I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m
>not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."
>--Robert McCloskey



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