On Tue, 30 May 2017 15:51:32 +0200 Stefan Hundhammer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 30.05.2017 14:22, Ancor Gonzalez Sosa wrote: > > So there are some features we can trade in exchange for the missing > > ones (whatever they are). :-) > > But first at all we should deliver a good replacement for the storage > stack. In the ideal case, it would be a drop-in replacement; but most > likely we might be missing some (probably more exotic) features the > old one had. But being reasonably feature-complete, and, more > importantly, robust, should be our main goal. We should focus on that > and not introduce all kinds of new things that nobody asked for. We > don't exactly feel bored with the amount of things that are still > left to do. > Feature complete and robust is important parts, but not for user. He is interested if features that he needs or already uses is there ( no matter how exotic it is ). And also if previous storage stack worked for them, then robust is for him too abstract term. Plus do not forget that users is usually a bit conservative, so they love old bugs that they already know how to workaround them. That is reason why many users do not update/upgrade so often. In this situation consider starting mood like zero. Every feature that user use and is missing send mood to negative numbers. Every new bug also send adds negative numbers. So only chance to balance it, is something new that sends customer mood to positive numbers. And feature complete or robust is not really the ones that can do it. It is something that find user useful like ones that mention Ancor, bcache for nicer experience with combination of ssd and spin disk Arvin mentions, any improved usability ( so user who knows old stack can say, wow, it is really better ) or something similar. And we should really start more intensively promote this new features, so it is more publicly aware what good it will provide for them and it can make easier for early adopters to find it and try it. Josef > > Kind regards -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
