On Wed, 18 May 2011 13:16:59 -0700 Anand Babu Periasamy <ab at gluster.com> wrote: > GlusterFS is completely free. Same versions released to the community are > used for commercial deployments too. Their issues gets higher priority > though. Code related to other proprietary software such as VMWare, AWS, > RightScale are kept proprietary. > > We acknowledge that we have done a poor job when it comes to managing > community, documentation and bug tracking. While we improved a lot since 2.x > versions, I agree we are not there yet. We hired a lot of engineers to > specifically focus on testing and bug fixes recently. QA team is > growing steadily. Lab size has been doubled. New QA lead is joining us next > month. QA team will have closer interaction with the community moving > forward. We also appointed Dave Garnett from HP as VP product manager and > Vidya Sakar from Sun/Oracle as Engineering manager. > > We fully understand the importance of community. Paid vs Non-paid should not > matter when it comes to quality of software. Intangible contributions from > the community are equally valuable to the success of GlusterFS project. We > have appointed John Mark Walker as community manager. We launched > community.gluster.org site recently. Starting next month, we will have > regular community sessions. Problems raised by the community will also get > prioritized. > > We are redoing the documentation completely. New system will be based on Red > Hat's Publican. Documentation team too will closely work with the community. > > *Criticisms are taken positively. So please don't hesitate.* > Thanks! > -ab Sorry, this clearly shows the problem: understanding. It really does not help you a lot to hire a big number of people, you do not fail in terms of business relation. Your problem is the _code_. You need a filesystem expert. A _real_ one, not _some_ one. Like lets say Daniel Phillips, Theodore "Ted" Ts'o or the like. -- Regards, Stephan
