On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 3:50 AM, Jan Hoevers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is 100% completely open source. The source ported to RELENG_1_2 is > > even in the public CVS server in its own branch. It's just the images > > including it are not publicly available. It was back ported as a thanks > > to those who contributed. You could figure out what it is in CVS and > > sync a 1.2 install with that code. > > I see. Guess that makes it open source strictly speaking, but it is not > the 100% openness I would expect from an open source project. While I > understand that people have to earn a living, this bounty policy makes > things difficult for people who want to evaluate before deciding.
Seeing as how the feature is targeted for 1.3 and we don't have public 1.3 test images (hello, we JUST released 1.2) yet, it will be difficult for those that have donated to the feature to test that it's actually been done right. The easiest way for Ermal to get the feedback from those that are financially interested in the feature is to provide a special release for those users. I've done the same for features I've developed - _I_ support those special images, I'm only willing to provide that supported them being created. I imagine Ermal feels the same way. When we start rolling public 1.3 images (if you can't wait, feel free to do a developers install and roll your own, just don't expect any support on it), the larger group of developers (and hopefully users) will be able to provide support. As with all products, I fully recommend basing evaluations against current released feature sets, not vapor-ware features (in the interest of releasing a better product in a timely manner, vendors inevitably pull incomplete features that had been promised - Apple, wake up, I want my bloody iSCSI Initiator in Leopard thank you!). --Bill
