Re: [MooseFS-Users] Project status

[Marin B. <li...@ol...>]

Hi Agatha,

Thank you for taking the time to make this statement. I find your commitment to support the GPL version reassuring. I hope other people will share the same view.

My words were very sincere. IMHO, in the tiny world of distributed file systems, MooseFS is just the most stable and easy to use open source solution lying around — and I've been testing many of them, if not most. It is very clear at what it can and cannot do. As long as EC, HA or block storage are not hard requirements, I wouldn't go another way. That why I would have been very upset had the free version been discontinued!

Thank you again for the clarification,

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Marin BERNARD
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Le vendredi 9 juillet 2021 à 13:29, Agata Kruszona-Zawadzka <ch...@mo...> a écrit :

> W dniu 04.07.2021 o 11:25, Marin BERNARD pisze:
> 

> > Hi,
> > 

> > I've been using MooseFS for personal use for 6-7 years now, and it's been rock-solid: I never had to complain about it. However, since a few years the public activity of the project on GitHub and the ML has dramatically decreased. So much that I'm beginning to wonder whether the free version is still supported, and if it is, how long it will remain so.
> > 

> > Could some official from the project make a quick statement about the status of the GPL version ? It would help people like me to decide whether the free version of MooseFS is still a viable solution for both new and old deployments.
> > 

> > Could someone also confirm that MooseFS 4.0 will never be released under the GPL ? It was announced more than 3 years ago and never released publicly since; I suppose this means it will never be.
> > 

> > Many thanks,
> > 

> > --
> > 

> > Marin BERNARD
> > 

> > li...@ol...
> > 

> > https://keybase.io/marinbernard
> > 

> > PGP: FD5D 9CF2 413F 68C0 1FD5  ED76 122B 443F 2493 48A8
> 

> Hi,
> 

> Thank you for your kind words about MooseFS's stability - we do our best.
> 

> The open source version is still supported and we don't plan to change
> 

> that. We will be releasing version 3.0.116 soon.
> 

> We also still plan to release version 4 on an open source licence, but
> 

> we cannot commit to any timeframe. Once it is released, we will announce
> 

> end of support time for version 3, but we will give our users ample time
> 

> to migrate.
> 

> Regards,
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 

> Agata Kruszona-Zawadzka
> 

> MooseFS Team