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News and Announcements / Re: Zentyal 4.1 available!

« on: April 01, 2015, 09:07:48 pm »

Remove multi-gateway functionality (balancing, failover, etc)

Why?
I use that feature on one installation. It's one of the important features why I had chosen Zentyal.

I can understand that Zentyal wants to focus on Active Directory and Exchange replacement. That's Ok. I understood that some modules have been removed on the way from 3.3 to 4.0, because the OpenLdap removal caused a major rework to them. But why do you remove working core features? I can't get those features back by building some contrib modules myself.
I thought that feature removal has been finished with version 4.0. So what's next feature on the removal list? The firewall module? NTP? Everything but samba, openchange and sogo?

How can we (the community) support you to get those core features (and some important contrib modules) back into mainline Zentyal?
Are there any known bugs in the recently removed features the community can help to fix?
Is it possible to just mark some features and modules as "experimental" and keep them in mainline Zentyal?

Please explain the reasons for the feature removal in version 4.1?
I can live with the situation that I have to manage (e.g. edit configuration files for) some modules/features like backup for example by myself. The Ubuntu package management allows this, so it's easily possible to extend Zentyal. I use Bareos (fork of Bacula) for backup and I'm really happy with that. I think it is more sophisticated than Duplicity.

Currently, I still use Zentyal 3.3. But I planned to migrate to 4.0 within the next weeks. According to the Git-Logs Zentyal seemed to have stabilized, so I just have to implement some replacements for some features removed from 3.3 to 4.0 (like the Apache webserver). But I'm very confident I can manage that. Now, I saw the 4.1 announcement: features removed again! I'm forced to implement replacements again, if possible at all. Zentyal did a major step from 3.3 to 4.0. OK, that's history. Normally, I expect bug fixes and some (small) new features from a point release, but not a feature removal.

My final question: what can we expect from Zentyal in the future?

Best regards,
Daniel