On 2020-04-20 19:57:19, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > This is a continuation, in spirit, of a thread from last summer, but I'm > intentionally starting a new one here. [1] > > This post will specifically focus on the Debian AWS Marketplace > listings, which are currently split across two AWS accounts [2][3] > > We've got some inconsistencies between our current listings and our old > ones, and some long-standing issues [4] that would be nice to clean up. > I'd like some input on how best to do so. > > Product title: For older releases, the title is listed as (e.g.) "Debian > GNU/Linux 9 (Stretch)". For buster, it is "Debian 10 Buster". I prefer > the formating used for stretch, and would like to update buster to > match. I'm open to the idea of listing only the version number, and > dropping the code name, but don't feel strongly either way. Opinions? I'm in favour of the former, I like emphasized GNU/Linux even if most ppl won't know what this exactly mean, but this is also much closer to how we describe our distro in our docs, well at least in parts of it anyway. > Product overview: For buster, the overview is simply "Debian 10 "Buster" > for Amazon Web Services." For stretch, it is a longer blob of copypasta > from the Debian entry on Wikipedia. Neither of these is ideal, IMO. > Some condensed version of About Debian[5] would probably be better, but > I don't have anything specific in mind. Is there existing text that > would work better here? > > Highlights: Stretch lists a couple of items in the "Highlights" section > on the listings pages: "After 26 months of development the Debian > project is proud to present its new stable version 9 (code name > "Stretch"), which will be supported for the next 5 years" and "Debian 9 > is dedicated to the project's founder Ian Murdock, who passed away on 28 > December 2015". Buster is only "The universal operating system." I > think pulling some snippets in from the release notes makes sense for > buster. Agree? IMO what Manu provided is close to what I'd put in description like this. > The AWS Marketplace requires some text for a "EULA". Currently we link > to the Social Contract for that, but that's not at all written like a > EULA and doesn't specifically discuss legal rights or restrictions. > IMO, as suggested in #696596 [4], we should replace the EULA text with > something similar to what's in the default MOTD. Thoughts? +1 to MOTD path > Support information: The stretch listing says "Debian is developed and > supported by a diverse global community. It can be reached through a > variety of means including email, IRC, and web forums." and links to > www.debian.org/support. Buster indicates that "No Support is offered > for this product" I'd like to make buster match the stretch listing. +1 > I think this has gotten plenty long enough, and covers the important > things, so let's leave it at this for now. Thanks for reading, and I > look forward to your input! Noah, many thanks for your continuous push to have things done. -- |_|0|_| | |_|_|0| "Panta rei" | |0|0|0| -------- kuLa -------- | gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x686930DD58C338B3 3DF1 A4DF C732 4688 38BC F121 6869 30DD 58C3 38B3
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