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I note deprecation of AFP from 6.9.Is there any impact on maintaining TimeMachine volumes?Thanksnevermind, I found a rather testy exchange on the matter across in another thread.
I guess I'll be doing my own research ;-(
Unraid OS version 6.9.0-beta35 available
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Good points all, but a couple of observations.....
Typical (traditional?) software release schedules consider betas to be functionally complete, and are provided for testing and big fixes only. Limetech don't seem to follow this, and the beta cycle becomes more of an extended alpha with new bits being added all the time. This is likely the root cause of the often unfeasibly long beta cycles, and why they don't talk about release schedules - you cant predict them with this methodology.
I'd prefer to see scope-limited releases with fixed feature sets, tested efficiently and released on a more regular basis. I think this would also help grow adoption as new users see a healthy, vibrant platform with regular updates and new feature additions.
The second point is, historically, unRaid tends to get new features in a rough & ready manner, something like this release. It works, but requires a degree of pfaffing about in config files and the like to get it set up. The UI tends to follow a release or 2 later when the feature & functionality settles down.
I recall being about for the birth of VMs, when not only did we need to hand code all the VM XML files, but Limetech changed the VM engine very late in the day, and a lot of the knowledge and skill early adopters had built up had to be thrown out and re-learned. For such reasons, it makes sense that they don't focus on a smooth UI early on - if the underlying implementation needs to be re-factored, that would be a waste of work.