Please review / comment on / help with AWS Marketplace listing

Thu Oct 25 17:29:05 UTC 2012

On 10/25/2012 07:07 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> Here's the details for the form I'm going to submit. Would appreciate your
> input, especially on the Highlights. My comments in [brackets].
All in all, I think it looks reasonably decent. I have some comments on 
some of the descriptions - I think the Overview page on the wiki has a 
lot of usefulness in terms of description of community/product.

My other note is that - esp. in the "company description" since it's the 
page about "fedora" the distro - we should probably be more consistent 
in our references to Fedora vs. the Fedora Project -

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview
>
> Company Description:
>
>    The Fedora Project is a worldwide community of people who love, use, and
>    build free software. We want to lead in the creation and spread of free
>    code and content by working together as a community. Fedora is sponsored
>    by Red Hat, the world's most trusted provider of open source technology.
>    Red Hat invests in Fedora to encourage collaboration and incubate
>    innovative new free software technologies.

Maybe... and can we break it up into 2 paragraphs?

The Fedora Project is a worldwide, open partnership of free software 
contributors and enthusiasts.  Our mission is to lead the advancement of 
free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.

The Fedora Project is primarily sponsored by Red Hat, the world's most 
trusted provider of open source technology.  (I'm not quite sold on your 
last line re: why red hat invests, but can go either way, I'm not too picky)

One thing to consider: Is it worth highlighting more specifically that 
Fedora is the upstream for RHEL?

>
> Software By:
>
>    Fedora Project
>
> Title:
>
>    Fedora 17
>
> Version Title:
>
>    Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle) 2012.05.15
>
>    [Note: I put the date there because I'd like to leave open the option of
>     updated image spins. Open to suggestions on how best to do this.]
That's fine, though I think it would be good to make clear that it's not 
something like a "nightly image" kind of thing. We don't have to drill 
into details on "how we'd do that" right now, I agree it's useful to 
keep the option open.
>
> Release Notes:
>
>    Official Fedora Cloud image.
>
> Description:
>
>    Fedora is a Linux-based operating system built on our community's four
>    foundations: freedom, features, friends, and first. The Fedora Cloud image
>    in EC2 provides a functional core on top of which any of tens of thousands
>    of free and open source software packages can be easily added.
/Fedora/is a Linux-based operating system that providesa wide audience 
of users <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_base>with access to the 
latestfree and open source software 
<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html>, in astable 
<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA>,secure 
<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/Features>and easy to manage 
form. The Fedora cloud image in EC2 (blah blah blah, what you have above)
>    
> Highlight1:
>
>    Free and Open Source: built by a collaborative community using entirely
>    free software.
>    
> Highlight2:
>
>    Core Image Ready to Build Upon: use yum to add any of tens of thousands of
>    software packages, or drop in your own code.
>    
>    [Avoid "minimal", because it isn't. Should I use a more precise count of
>    packages?]
>    
> Highlight3:
>
>    NEED SOMETHING HERE
>    
>    [Security? Fedora-ness? Values? Highlight some particlar awesomness?]
>    
> Support Offered:
>
>    FALSE
>    
>    [This is a boolean. We _do_ offer community support, of course. Should
>    maybe be true?]
Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh. That seems misleading, I think to have it as true.
>    
> Support Detail:
>
>    Community supported. Visit Ask Fedora (http://ask.fedoraproject.org/), or
>    get involved by joining the Fedora Cloud SIG
>    (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG). You can help us make Fedora in
>    the Cloud even more awesome for everyone.
>
> Product Category1:
>
>    Operating System
>    
> Product Category2:
>
>    [blank]
>    
> Search Keywords:
>
>    open source, free, core
>    
> Image URL:
>
>    http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options#cloud
>    
> Resource1 Name & Resource1 URL:
>
>    Fedora Project
>    https://fedoraproject.org/
>    
> Resource2 Name & Resource2 URL:
>
>    Fedora Cloud SIG
>    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG
>    
> Resource3 Name & Resource3 URL:
>
>    Source Code
>    http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/17/Fedora/source/SRPMS/
I guess this is more of a technical question: How does the above link 
accurately represent things if we - as you described above - have 
different "more updated but still F17" images? Do we think people will 
be confused / looking for F17 - date/morepreciseversion/etc?
>    
> Product Video:
>
>    [none]
>    
> Usage Instructions:
>
>    Connect with SSH. No web services are installed or configured by default.
>    Fedora's EC2 images follow standard EC2 login conventions, meaning that
>    root login is disabled, but sudo access is granted. The default username
>    for the images is ec2-user.
>    
> End User License Agreement Text:
>
>    [Copied from
>    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/Licenses/LicenseAgreement17]
>    
> Refund and Cancelation Policy:
>
>    Fedora is available free of charge. Normal Amazon Web Services terms
>    apply.
We might include something saying "Normal Amazon Web Services terms and 
charges" or "terms, including costs for storage and 
bandwidth/uploading/downloading/whatever" apply.

Also: Since we have a mirror internal to amazon - is that something 
worth highlighting? Or does the AWS marketplace work differently from 
regular EC2 (I haven't looked in detail at any differences)
>
>
> Available in Regions....
>
>    True for all.
This is not really true in EC2, I don't think we're doing Fedora in 
non-us regions, are we? - does AWS marketplace provide wider availability?
>    
>
> Endpoint URL Protocol:
>
>    ssh
>    
>    [hopefully, I can get them to construct a ssh://ec2-user@.... URL]
>    
>
> Upgrade Instructions:
>
>    [Blank for now]
>    
> Recommended Instance Type:
>
>    Standard Large
Is this basically a bulletpoint option, or is there additional text that 
we could include as to why (ie: standard large - Recommended for common 
use cases like $unicornbuilding, $bikeshedding, etc)
>
> Available Instnace Types:
>
>    All except GPU. (Including Micro)
>    
> Pricing:
>
>    Zeros.
>    
> Security Groups:
>
>    tcp, 80, 80, 0.0.0.0/0
>    tcp, 443, 443, 0.0.0.0/0
>    tcp, 22, 22, 0.0.0.0/0
>    
>    [These are defaults for one-click launch]
>
>

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