I'd like to start by extending my thanks to the development team and to all of the people who contribute bug reports and feature requests. FreeNAS is a great product, worthy of a lot of respect.
With that said, I have been paying attention to the release schedule from early last year, and particularly around the v11.2 releases, and, in comparison to the commercial compute/storage world in which I work, there is a real pattern of release dates being deferred on almost every version, frequently when there are zero outstanding defects or feature requests assigned to that version on the bug tracker.
The release delays are very frustrating to those people waiting for fixes that have already been identified and resolved in the run up to the original published release date, especially as the number of fixed bugs helping to settle the new UI and middleware down into a truly usable, production stable state is not insignificant.
I would be really interested in feedback from the mods and development team on whether there might be an improved approach that could help the actual releases occur more frequently on the dates published in the roadmap. Naturally, I do understand that those dates are estimates only and that a free product is being delivered by a group of hard-working, talented and dedicated people. It can't be denied, however, that publishing dates in the first place does set a level of not unreasonable expectation from the user base.
Mods ... if this isn't the right place (or platform) for this post, I'm happy for it to be moved elsewhere.
Thanks all.
Nick
With that said, I have been paying attention to the release schedule from early last year, and particularly around the v11.2 releases, and, in comparison to the commercial compute/storage world in which I work, there is a real pattern of release dates being deferred on almost every version, frequently when there are zero outstanding defects or feature requests assigned to that version on the bug tracker.
The release delays are very frustrating to those people waiting for fixes that have already been identified and resolved in the run up to the original published release date, especially as the number of fixed bugs helping to settle the new UI and middleware down into a truly usable, production stable state is not insignificant.
I would be really interested in feedback from the mods and development team on whether there might be an improved approach that could help the actual releases occur more frequently on the dates published in the roadmap. Naturally, I do understand that those dates are estimates only and that a free product is being delivered by a group of hard-working, talented and dedicated people. It can't be denied, however, that publishing dates in the first place does set a level of not unreasonable expectation from the user base.
Mods ... if this isn't the right place (or platform) for this post, I'm happy for it to be moved elsewhere.
Thanks all.
Nick