Re: IPFire-3.x Images

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Hi,

I do not really want to bring down the excitement, but IPFire 3 is no where near ready for production.

This image is rather the status from last autumn when we had our last developer summit. Since then, literally nothing has happened in regard of IPFire 3. There is just no time to work on that.

As Jonatan has said, all of our time is very limited and we are putting every minute into IPFire 2 to at least keep that running well. Unfortunately that has become more time in the past since I have the feeling that we are getting less and less feedback from testers and so on.

The time that we do spend on IPFire 3 is rather on regrouping and finding the spot where we stopped working because too much time passes between those two points in time. So far we have failed to continue working on it a little bit every single day…

But, there is also good news… I always tend to talk about the downsides of all of this, but actually there is more positive things to say about IPFire 3:

* We have an amazing build system - which is not bug-free but doing a much better job than what we have in IPFire 2

* Networking is working really well. It is powerful, has loads of features. We just need to round it off a little bit.

* The OS is modern, small and faster than IPFire 2.

If you want to toy around with the networking, here is the documentation: https://man-pages.ipfire.org/network/

Please report any bugs, please talk about IPFire 3. I am happy to help out and answer questions :)

-Michael

> On 17 Feb 2019, at 20:05, Tom Rymes <trymes(a)rymes.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Feb 17, 2019, at 12:28 PM, ummeegge <ummeegge(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On Sa, 2019-02-16 at 10:39 +0100, Jonatan Schlag wrote:
>>> 
>>> As stated time is limited and 4 persons are not enough to build
>>> IPFire-
>>> 3.x.  To push the development of IPFire-3.x it would be cool If
>>> everybody would thinking about working on this next major version
>>> too.  
>> It might be helpful to know a little more about the insides which kind
>> of work needs to be currently done and who is working on what.
> 
> I’d also like to have a better feel for what are the items that need attention before 3.x can be released. It has long been that “IPFire 3 is coming soon", but it’s unclear what work is needed where to get to the next step.
> 
> Tom