Hi, Op Wed 13 Mar 2013 om 05:33:09 +0900 schreef Charles Plessy: > Le Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 08:51:57AM +0100, Joost van Baal-Ilić a écrit : > > > > Could you maybe draft a text for the press release which would reflect your > > ideas better? > > Hi Joost, > > if the main point of the press release is to recommend to run private clouds, > then I recommend to cancel it. AIUI, the main point is twofold: 1) Dear reader, we now offer Debian images for Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure; use them if they suit you. 2) Please help us improving our cloud offerings. > The other problem is that it is not clear what the readers are expected to do. > > - For the private clouds, the draft mentions Wheezy as a stable release, so > the message is: wait. This is not what I would expect from a press release > as a reader. > > - For the public images, this is where you are waiting feedback from the > developers who maintain images on Amazon and Azure. We will see their > answer, but I am a bit concerned that issuing a press release for the > current images is prematurate. At least for the Amazon images, they are > still way behind the expectation of the users who have worked on Ubuntu > images. A couple of other issues are listed on http://bugs.debian.org/cloud.debian.org, > and I think that it would be good to coordinate with us so that there is > a chance to close them before sending a press release. > > If the goal of the press release is to calm some worries about our presence on > platforms that are considered proprietary by some members of our community, > then I recommend to rewrite it from scratch and focus on this, using the last > paragraph as a starting point. But we also have to consider that Amazon and > Azure are giving us the opportunity to release our images free of charge, and I > think that it is contradicting to ask them for a favor, and then write in a > press release that people should not use them. > > (Note also that we are running our mass-rebuilds for free on Amazon. If using > this platform is considered non-free, then we should kindly decline their grant > and stop using it.) > > Altogether, there may be more relevant press releases to write for the moment. > > Even if it disappoints you, I hope this helps. > > -- > Charles (feel free to quote me in public). I am not that much involved in the Debian cloud effort; I guess you might be right the pressrelease in it's current format would be premature. Thanks, Bye, Joost -- Le premier qui, ayant enclos un terrain, s'avisa de dire « Ceci est à moi », et trouva des gens assez simples pour le croire, fut le vrai fondateur de la société civile. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau, De l'Inégalité parmi les hommes, 1754
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