Moving on from iXsystems and the future of FreeNAS / Corral

[zoomzoom]

@jkh Thanks for the work you've done and help you've provided =]

 

[HolyK]

Good luck! World need more nanotech specialists. We need those nanobots to fix our bad sectors !!

 

[crikey]

Wow, your new role sounds pretty amazing. Thanks for your dedication to this fantastic piece of software and the community that supports and uses it. Corral is a great legacy to leave behind. I'll miss those State of the Union addresses!

 

[jjstecchino]

Good luck with the new job and thank you for what you have achieved with freenas. I feel you have been a good guide and motivator for every one involved with freenas, user or developer alike. I felt you lead the way the right way. Again good luck to you.

 

[nkw]

@jkh

Best of luck on your future endeavors. I've just been a lurker in this community, but as long as I've been a user I've been impressed with your and your team's efforts. I have also found that you have the rare combination of being a person willing and able to help frustrated new users with kindness and patience while also being able to produce some great code.

Thanks!

 

[Yusuf Limalia]

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

Good luck sir.
Couldn't have been an easy decision, All the best!

 

[Bill Cowger]

Sounds like this may have been an easy decision after the new announcement.

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[brando56894]

Good luck in your future endeavors @jkh! Your ridiculous and comical announcements and updates will be missed!

 

[msbxa]

Good luck and all the best on your new job . Thanks for your contributions to FreeNAS very appreciated.

 

[Magnus33]

Not really too shocked.

Your stubborn ,pig headed , absent mind and sometimes blind when people are trying to give you hints.
But that is also combined with a brilliant mind, crazy drive and a genuine caring for making things better for others..basically the mad genius type ;)

But there is issues with itx and how things are done that have been hurting development and how people see it.
Its what kept us from investing in itx systems and what kept others from doing the same.

Want to find out what a company really like and how good support for their products is play dumb.
Everything fixable though so hopefully in the future we shall see a reason to invest.

Best of luck on the new job.

 

[ChrisFitzFor]

Not really too impressed.
You were the driving force behind FreeNAS Corral which has been announced stable way too early and turned into a technology preview, showing a middle-finger to the early adaptors. So you left your rough diamond behind and unfinished.

 

[Brer]

Good luck and all the best in your new endeavours JK...