@Kris Moore, after being shell shocked for a few weeks from the announcement that Corral was, for lack of a better phrase, imploding under it's own weight, and then waiting a few more weeks for the dust to settle on where things are going for now, I have a few questions I'm hoping you (or, anyone else who can answer them with authority as opposed to guesses). In no particular order:
- For those of us who were looking forward to the UI feature that allowed you to have visual representation of disks:
The "triangle selector" thing:
etc, what is the status of that in 11-RC and/or 11.0, 11.1, and 11.2?
- For those of us who were excited by the dashboard widgets:
What's the status on those in 11-RC and/or 11.0, 11.1, and 11.2?
- It's my understanding that one of the key features of Corral was a fully asynchronous UI where you could "submit" tasks and then move on to other things while not having to wait for tasks to complete. Is that functional in 11-RC and/or 11.0, 11.1, 11.2?
- In general, when should we expect that FreeNAS 11 will be at the same point where Corral was when it was released?*
* If this question is confusing or too nebulous to answer, let me try and qualify it a bit: When will will you guys consider v11 more or less on-par with the features / goals (where goals need not equal the actual achievements) outlined in the charter for Corral? I think many people, myself certainly included, had the impression of release of Corral being the "plant the flag moment" at the summit of a development mountain. Now that Corral is being effectively shelved, when should we expect to reach that summit once again on the new v11 track? Are we at the base of the new mountain, half way up, just a few steps from reaching the summit once again, etc?
It seems to me that if you're going to have to go through what I can only imagine is a quite painful process scuttle v10 / Corral, introduce a new UI, try and bring over features, etc, wouldn't it make sense to have multiple RCs and only release a v11.0 when it's fully, feature complete with where Corral was at (or, at least "supposed to be") at it's release?
I think for those of us who were following along with v10 / Corral development, BETAs, etc, waiting to build new storage appliances based on the brand new, fully feature-complete OS, we're now lost trying to figure out what v9 (traditional UI), v10 Corral, v11 (RC, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, etc) do and do not have.
*Light Bulb*
Any thought to publishing a features matrix that has each of those versions listed on the X-axis with a complete list of features on the Y-axis, and then fill in check marks accordingly? That would make it SUPER easy for anyone to be able to tell if the feature that may be important for them is available in v9, Corral, v11-RC and/or what future version it's tentatively scheduled to be included in.
Thanks for any insight you can offer to help those us trying to re-train our focus on v11 and beyond.
PS: I've reviewed this
https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...ng-from-freenas-corral-to-freenas-9-10-11.36/ and I'm seeing lots of "It is not going to be feature-complete just yet, but it's usable" and "... a functional, but not feature-complete, alternative", etc. Nothing on this page seems to give me a good feeling for when we can expect a full, feature-complete, release.