[OpenStack-docs] Renaming Virtual Machine Image Guide

Tom Fifield tom at openstack.org
Sat May 23 16:46:48 UTC 2015


As in "OpenStack Admin User Guide" 
(http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide-admin/ ) ?



On 23/05/15 06:45, Anne Gentle wrote:
> Based on the discussion, sounds like it should become a chapter in the
> larger admin guide.
>
> Anne
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Bernd Bausch <berndbausch at gmail.com
> <mailto:berndbausch at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     The term "virtual machine images" has the advantage of being quite
>     specific,
>     and, as Adrien points out, the disadvantage of simply being wrong.
>     The term
>     "cloud images guide" sounds a bit vague and unspecific. "cloud ready
>     images
>     guide" is better.
>     Does the word "guide" has to come at the end, or do we need this word at
>     all?
>
>     Here is my mouthful: "Creating and managing images for your
>     OpenStack cloud"
>
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>     From: Lana Brindley [mailto:openstack at lanabrindley.com
>     <mailto:openstack at lanabrindley.com>]
>     Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2015 3:51 AM
>     To: openstack-docs
>     Subject: [OpenStack-docs] Renaming Virtual Machine Image Guide
>
>     Hi team,
>
>     Adrien has approached me at Summit to discuss renaming the Virtual
>     Machine
>     Image Guide to something more appropriate, probably something like
>     the Cloud
>     Image Guide. He originally proposed this
>     in https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1438597 and I
>     said I
>     wanted to have more discussion about it before we made a decision.
>
>     Can you please reply to this email and let me know if you approve of
>     changing the name of the guide and, if so, what you think it should be
>     called? The main argument I can see is that the word ‘cloud’ is a
>     broader
>     definition than the word ‘virtual machine’ and we need to be a
>     little more
>     generic.
>
>     Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
>
>     Lana
>
>     Lana Brindley
>     Technical Writer
>     Rackspace Cloud Builders Australia
>
>
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