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Hi folks!
I've come to know a lot of you pretty well on these forums, so what I'm about to say may come as something of a surprise, but after almost 4 years of working on FreeNAS as a full-time gig, I've decided it's time for new challenges and excitement, and April 7th will be my last day at iXsystems and day-to-day involvement with FreeNAS.
I'm going into the nanotech / biomedical field, for a complete career change of pace and hopefully the opportunity to do things that will substantially improve quality of life for a lot of people (I won't go into details here as it would be inappropriate, though I'm sure the press will fill that gap), so I have no doubts about this being the right thing to do!
As far as this community, and the FreeNAS Corral project which the FreeNAS dev team and so many others have put 2 years worth of blood, sweat and tears into, are concerned, I honestly think you will do a more than fantastic job of supporting one another in the weeks, months and years going forward! Even though some folks have somewhat stubbornly refused to see FreeNAS as a genuinely open source project and instead one in which iXsystems calls all the shots and its users are just spectators, you collectively have more power and influence than I think you've ever realized. Your bug reports drive the feature set of all versions of FreeNAS. Your testing and dedication to finding issues before it ships to paying customers is a huge multiplier in iXsystems' business model. With the release of Corral, your pull requests and outright contributions to the project on Github have increased by an order of magnitude (and the stats bear this out) over what we've seen in the previous 3 years.
Even though Corral is currently a dot-zero release with much polishing still to go, thousands of you have responded to the clear and obvious potential it has and recognized the "long game" in having a fundamentally new and extensible architecture in which to add new interface improvements, new CLI commands for power users, and otherwise build on what has already been built. It's always easier to improve on something rather than build it from scratch, and now that Corral has been built from scratch, the way forward is pretty clear!
As for myself, I'm simply going to a new job, I'm not leaving the planet (though that would be a pretty interesting new job, too) and I hope to remain active in this community as a user for some time, filing my own tickets and watching Corral evolve as I install the updates on my own hardware (and occasionally roll back, after sending an angry bug report to those danged developers! :D). You'll still see me around, in other words, I'll just be one of you now. Ewww, right? ;)
Seriously, It's been a genuine pleasure getting to know this community and I hope you'll stay in touch as the journey continues.
- Jordan Hubbard
ex-CTO, iXsystems
I've come to know a lot of you pretty well on these forums, so what I'm about to say may come as something of a surprise, but after almost 4 years of working on FreeNAS as a full-time gig, I've decided it's time for new challenges and excitement, and April 7th will be my last day at iXsystems and day-to-day involvement with FreeNAS.
I'm going into the nanotech / biomedical field, for a complete career change of pace and hopefully the opportunity to do things that will substantially improve quality of life for a lot of people (I won't go into details here as it would be inappropriate, though I'm sure the press will fill that gap), so I have no doubts about this being the right thing to do!
As far as this community, and the FreeNAS Corral project which the FreeNAS dev team and so many others have put 2 years worth of blood, sweat and tears into, are concerned, I honestly think you will do a more than fantastic job of supporting one another in the weeks, months and years going forward! Even though some folks have somewhat stubbornly refused to see FreeNAS as a genuinely open source project and instead one in which iXsystems calls all the shots and its users are just spectators, you collectively have more power and influence than I think you've ever realized. Your bug reports drive the feature set of all versions of FreeNAS. Your testing and dedication to finding issues before it ships to paying customers is a huge multiplier in iXsystems' business model. With the release of Corral, your pull requests and outright contributions to the project on Github have increased by an order of magnitude (and the stats bear this out) over what we've seen in the previous 3 years.
Even though Corral is currently a dot-zero release with much polishing still to go, thousands of you have responded to the clear and obvious potential it has and recognized the "long game" in having a fundamentally new and extensible architecture in which to add new interface improvements, new CLI commands for power users, and otherwise build on what has already been built. It's always easier to improve on something rather than build it from scratch, and now that Corral has been built from scratch, the way forward is pretty clear!
As for myself, I'm simply going to a new job, I'm not leaving the planet (though that would be a pretty interesting new job, too) and I hope to remain active in this community as a user for some time, filing my own tickets and watching Corral evolve as I install the updates on my own hardware (and occasionally roll back, after sending an angry bug report to those danged developers! :D). You'll still see me around, in other words, I'll just be one of you now. Ewww, right? ;)
Seriously, It's been a genuine pleasure getting to know this community and I hope you'll stay in touch as the journey continues.
- Jordan Hubbard
ex-CTO, iXsystems
