Hey Jarda ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jaromír Coufal" <[email protected]> > To: "Greg Blomquist" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 7:59:56 AM > Subject: Re: Winged Monkey > > Hi Greg, > > thank you for your answer, there are few reactions within the text. >
<big snip> > > > Don't take this as a directive to drop everything related to > > Conductor and start devoting time to Winged Monkey. You should > > only > > get involved if it actually makes sense for you to do so. > Oh, no worries, I don't take it directive. I just wanted to bring out > my > thoughts, which might help to see it from different point of view. I > don't say I am right, I don't say that these are my thoughts I will > insist on. Please, take it more like discussion about Winked Monkey > and > Conductor, which helps to make the project more clear (at least to > me). > > -- Jarda > I believe this is the core of our discussion. We're circling around the opposite ends of the same idea: serve more than just the admin user community of cloud users. Clearly, there are ideas that I've snipped out above that I should probably respond to. But, in the end, I think you and I could dance around the technical merit of different approaches to realizing this idea of providing a useful interface for non-technical cloud users. My sincere belief is that we're both right. In fact, I think Conductor _should_ be enhanced and expanded to support non-technical users. I believe that should happen because we have an obligation to try out that path forward. I also believe that we should simultaneously explore other paths forward. Winged Monkey is one such path. You've raised valid technical concerns that I've snipped. The main reason is that I don't have all the technical answers. My default answer to anything regarding "hey, you need to handle XYZ" is, at least for the foreseeable future, going to be "no I don't, some other app already does that". That's insufficient as a technical argument, I completely understand that. And, it's difficult to paint a better picture until those technical arguments can be defended. Until that time comes, I'm gonna keep trudging forward with this to either show it can work, or disprove its value. I don't think I've reached either of those ends yet, though. Hope that helps a bit. ---- Greg
