efw-announce

[Chris M. <ch...@en...>]

Hello EFW Users everywhere,

my name is Chris Mair -- I'm the new CTO of Endian Srl.

While gathering feedback from this list and our bugtracker
I've come to understand there is mounting confusion and
doubts about our release strategy (or lack thereof ;) and
our community strategy.

I wish to address these.

Let me get one thing straight from the beginning. Endian
Srl is a commercial company. We're in the game for the money.

Like others and unlike most, we stick 100% to Open Source.
Open Source is not just a shell phrase for us, it means
two things, it's a kind of license we attach
to the software we release as well as a development model.

So far we got the license straight (EFW is and will always be
Open Source Software, Free Software, call it by any name
-- as is the Enterprise addition, as is everything
installed on the appliances we sell), but we failed to
build up a community development process.

One of my tasks is to do better. I wish to involve the
community more. I wish to give updates to the EFW systems
out there and I wish to open up that repository a lot of
you are waiting for, so you can track the stable releases
better.

I am, however, missing resources to do all this *now*.
Remember: we're an Open Source Shop with a sort of closed
development process right now. If there was a single
button I could push to change that, I'd do that now.
Alas there's 1000 buttons and I'm just starting to figuring
out in what order to push them...

So, this is to let you know I'm working on it, the whole
development team is working on it and yes, we do listen
to you. I promise I'll keep you up to date on this.

Release time.

Today, we're releasing EFW 2.2 RC3. Please consider
this as final as we ever get with 2.2. We call it RC3,
because it's missing infrastructure more than it's
missing anything else (I mentioned I wish to give
you updates in the future).

If you're still on EFW 2.1, now is the time to get to
2.2.

If you're a developer, expect more from as as soon as
I get those 1000 buttons figured out...

CU on the lists :)

Bye,
Chris.

PS: remember: if you are an enterprise customer, we got you
always covered: just use the support channels you got when
you bought your appliance.


-- 
:: e n d i a n
:: open source - open minds

:: chris mair
:: http://www.endian.com