Hi Sally, sure for the change :-) happy to see this release going live !
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 1:53 PM Sally Khudairi <[email protected]> wrote: > Beautiful! Thank you, PIerre-Luc! > > Question: may I write out "less than second" or "under a second" vs. > "0.5s"? It would be OK if written, but as these are considered spoken > quotes, it might read oddly as "oh-point-five-ess", if you know what I mean > <g> > > This is excellent. We have a well-written announcement, with enough > community support to send the right message that reinforces that Apache > CloudStack stable, reliable, dependable, and here to stay. > > So back to you, Rohit: shall we announce tomorrow? If so, I'll lock in the > copy in a few hours. > > Warm thanks, everyone, for your help here. It really makes a difference! > > - - - > Vice President Marketing & Publicity > Vice President Sponsor Relations > The Apache Software Foundation > > Tel +1 617 921 8656 | [email protected] > > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2019, at 13:36, Rohit Yadav wrote: > > Great, thanks PL! > > > Sally, I've added Pierre-Luc's quote on the draft and also fixed a blog > URL. I think we've good set of quotes now. Kindly review, thanks. > > > Regards, > > Rohit Yadav > > Software Architect, ShapeBlue > https://www.shapeblue.com > > > [email protected] > www.shapeblue.com > @shapeblue > > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* Pierre-Luc Dion <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 19, 2019 10:40:51 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Cc:* Rohit Yadav > *Subject:* Re: [Review] CloudMonkey v6.0.0 release announcement review > request > > if I may contribute as a cloudmonkey fan and long timer user: > > Pierre-Luc Dion, cloud architect at cloud.ca: "CloudMonkey is now written > in Golang, and with version 6.0 loading speed has been drastically improved > (accessing the CLI in under 0.5s). This simplifies installation, > deployments, updates, and operational efficiency." > > Python version used to take 15s to load on my side ! > > PL > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 12:29 PM Sally Khudairi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > OK, so we have a few adjustments to the quotes. Two from vendors, and two > from the Apache CloudStack community. > > I've added a teeny tweak to the sub-head ("faster/easier"). > > We'd like the blog post to be referenceable from apache.org, if at all > possible. > > Once that's in place, we can announce. As early as Wednesday <g> > > Kind thanks, > Sally > > - - - > Vice President Marketing & Publicity > Vice President Sponsor Relations > The Apache Software Foundation > > Tel +1 617 921 8656 | [email protected] > > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2019, at 11:28, Sally Khudairi wrote: > > ...two minutes later ... > > "Apache CloudStack is a significant part of our Cloud portfolio right now > – we run large deployments all over the world, often supporting critical > customer applications. CloudMonkey is an invaluable tool for interacting > with CloudStack-based clouds, and it's the go-to tool that we recommend to > our customers when they want to use command-line interaction with our > CloudStack platforms." --Robert van der Meulen, Product Strategy > Lead, Leaseweb Global B.V. > > :-D > > I've got a draft at > https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ER9WcNpHjsZBjHV0dL0J6InTDPfhFZmhHFnpr1XyV8/edit?usp=sharing > > Is Andrija a member of the PMC? We can work around this, possibly. > > Many thanks. > > - - - > Vice President Marketing & Publicity > Vice President Sponsor Relations > The Apache Software Foundation > > Tel +1 617 921 8656 | [email protected] > > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2019, at 11:17, Sally Khudairi wrote: > > Thank you, but we also need some diversity here, please. > > The ASF is vendor-neutral and does not include multiple quotes from a > single vendor. Right now we only have testimonials from folks employed by > ShapeBlue. > > How is it that we cannot find a single other user to participate? > > @Rohit, I'd like us to consider holding off on announcing this until > Monday. Let's give folks a chance to respond to the request. > > Is there a reason to rush this out for tomorrow? It's not CloudStack > itself, and it's been a few years since the last major release, so there > *should* be a bit of wiggle room here. > > Your thoughts on this? > > Thanks, > Sally > > - - - > Vice President Marketing & Publicity > Vice President Sponsor Relations > The Apache Software Foundation > > Tel +1 617 921 8656 | [email protected] > > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2019, at 11:14, Rohit Yadav wrote: > > Thanks Andrija. (add Sally on the thread) > > Kindly include Andrija's quote as well, for reference see the quote below. > Thanks. > > Regards, > Rohit Yadav > > > [email protected] > www.shapeblue.com > @shapeblue > > > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* Andrija Panic <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 19, 2019 6:26:45 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* RE: [Review] CloudMonkey v6.0.0 release announcement review > request > > Hi Sally, > > Incoming.... : > > Andrija Panic, who recently joined ShapeBlue as a Cloud Architect, said: > "After many years of managing a production CloudStack deployments, I > consider CloudMonkey a core tool in anyone's CloudStack toolkit, and now > also being available for Windows makes me really happy. I can certainly see > a major speed improvements, but also having backward compatibility is what > is so great with this new release." > > > > [email protected] > www.shapeblue.com > Amadeus House, Floral Street, London WC2E 9DPUK > @shapeblue > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]> > Sent: 19 March 2019 13:33 > To: Giles Sirett <[email protected]>; Apache CloudStack > Marketing <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Review] CloudMonkey v6.0.0 release announcement review > request > > Thanks, Giles. This is great. > > Ideally we'll have a quote from at least one other user... :-D > > I can ask someone from the CloudStack community if they can help. Not sure > of their availability due to time zones, but I'll keep you posted. > > Warm regards, > Sally > > - - - > Vice President Marketing & Publicity > Vice President Sponsor Relations > The Apache Software Foundation > > Tel +1 617 921 8656 | [email protected] > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2019, at 05:23, Giles Sirett wrote: > > Guys, if you want/need a quote: > > > > > > Giles Sirett, CEO of ShapeBlue commented "Cloudmonkey is a effective > > tool for the operators of Cloudstack environments and it becomes > > essential in large-scale Cloudstack deployments. Its great to see this > > new version of cloudmonkey: having a CLI that can run on Windows > > desktops as well as linux and Mac is important as we see more enterise > > adoption of Apache Cloudstack" > > > > > > > > Kind regards > > Giles > > > > [email protected] > > www.shapeblue.com > > Amadeus House, Floral Street, London WC2E 9DPUK @shapeblue > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rohit Yadav <[email protected]> > > Sent: 19 March 2019 07:37 > > To: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]>; [email protected]; Apache > > CloudStack Marketing <[email protected]>; > > [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Review] CloudMonkey v6.0.0 release announcement review > > request > > > > Hi Sally, > > > > > > Thanks for reviews, please proceed with the changes you've advised. > > > > While I've requested people already for their quotes, we don't have > > any so far. I've reached out to PMCs again today, so please include > > any quotes if they do arrive on this thread (on marketing@ ML). > > > > > > I think let's lock on the date, 20th March 2019. After you can confirm > > the announcement, I'll send the email to various lists and put the > > same on cloudstack asf blog. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Rohit Yadav > > > > Software Architect, ShapeBlue > > > > https://www.shapeblue.com > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 5:46:17 AM > > To: Rohit Yadav; [email protected]; Apache CloudStack > > Marketing; [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Review] CloudMonkey v6.0.0 release announcement review > > request > > > > Hello again, Rohit --following up on this: > > > > - we need a headline and subhead; how about > > > > The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache(r) CloudMonkey(r) v6.0 > > > > Popular Open Source Command Line Interface Tool Simplifies Apache > > CloudStack Configuration and Management > > > > > > - we'll need to update the ASF boilerplate. I can do that on my end. > > > > If we're aiming to announce on 20 March, we'll need to lock in the > > copy no later than 6PM ET (UTC -5) on Tuesday 19 March. Do you have > > additional testimonials to include? > > > > Are there any outstanding issues that I can help with? > > > > Kind thanks, > > Sally > > > > - - - > > Vice President Marketing & Publicity > > Vice President Sponsor Relations > > The Apache Software Foundation > > > > Tel +1 617 921 8656 | [email protected] > > > > > > > > [email protected] > > www.shapeblue.com > > Amadeus House, Floral Street, London WC2E 9DPUK @shapeblue > > > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2019, at 04:56, Rohit Yadav wrote: > > > > All, > > > > > > Kindly review the release announcement for CloudMonkey v6.0.0, and > > also share your quotes/comments that we can use in the release wrt > > cloudmonkey v6.0: > > > > > > ### START ### > > > > > > > > <Date: 20 March 2019> - The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the > > all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 > > Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today Apache(r) > > CloudStack(r) CloudMonkey v6.0, the latest version of the turnkey > > enterprise Cloud orchestration platform's command line interface tool. > > > > Apache CloudStack is the proven, highly scalable, and easy-to-deploy > > IaaS platform used for rapidly creating private, public, and hybrid > > Cloud environments. Thousands of large-scale public Cloud providers > > and enterprise organizations use Apache CloudStack to enable billions > > of dollars worth of business transactions annually across their clouds. > > Apache CloudMonkey v6.0.0 is the latest major release since the > > previous major 5.x release in September 2013. CloudMonkey v6.0.0 is a > > rewrite of the original tool in Go programming language, and can be > > used both as an interactive shell and as a command line tool that > > simplifies CloudStack configuration and management. > > > > Some of the new features and major changes include: > > > > > > * Rewrite in Go, ships as single binary for Linux, Mac, and Windows > > * Drop-in replacement for legacy Python-based cloudmonkey > > * About 5-20x faster than legacy Python-based cloudmonkey > > * Interactive UX for parameter and arg completion and selection > > * JSON is the default output format > > * New column based output > > * Enable debug mode using set debug true option, file-based logging > > removed > > * Per server profile based API cache > > * New syntax arg=@/path/to/file to pass the content of file as API > > argument value similar to curl > > * Improve help docs using -h argument > > * Removed: XML output, coloured output, several set options > > > > "This release is the work of over one year of effort and driven by the > > people operating CloudStack clouds," said Rohit Yadav, Apache > > CloudStack CloudMonkey v6.0 author, and release manager. "I would like > > to thank the contributors across all of these organizations for > > supporting this release, which reflects both the user-driven nature of > > our community and the Apache CloudStack project's commitment to > > continue to be the most stable, easily deployable, scalable Open > > Source platform for IaaS. Along with ease of installation, usage and > > availability of cross-platform dependency-free builds including > > Windows builds, v6.0 brings many changes and optimizations such as > > more interactive shell for parameter completion, faster API requests > > processing, server profile specific API caching, improved API help > > docs and a new syntax to pass content of files as API parameter > argument." > > The background and story of v6.0 effort was recently blogged here: > > https://www.shapeblue.com/whats-coming-in-the-new-cloudmonkey-6-0/ > > > > <stick more quotes from community members, kindly share your > > comments!> > > > > > > Downloads and Documentation > > > > The official source code for CloudMonkey v6.0.0 can be downloaded from > > http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html. The community-maintained > > builds are available at the project's Github release page at > > https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-cloudmonkey/releases > > > > CloudMonkey's usage is documented at > > https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-cloudmonkey/wiki > > > > Availability and Oversight > > > > Apache CloudStack software is released under the Apache License v2.0 > > and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the > > project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's > > day-to-day operations, including community development and product > > releases. 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All other brands and trademarks are the property of their > > respective owners. > > > > > > > > > > ### END ### > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Rohit Yadav > > > > Software Architect, ShapeBlue > > > > https://www.shapeblue.com > > > > > > [email protected] > > www.shapeblue.com > > @shapeblue > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- *Pierre-Luc Dion*Lead Cloud Architect | Architecte infonuagique principal t 1.888.796.8364 ext. 1403 <https://cloud.ca/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=signature&utm_content=cloud-ca-logo-1&utm_campaign=general_email>
