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Beyond Creedence - XenServer 2015 Planning
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In a few weeks James Bulpin and I will be at the Xen Project Developers Summit in Chicago, and some of our discussions will be about the future of XenServer, and more importantly to the community "What comes after Creedence?". With the Creedence alpha program we're seeing a level of community engagement which has honestly exceeded my expectations. I attribute this to the significant improvements in the platform, but also the level of transparency we've had with respect to early access to pre-release builds.
While it was pretty obvious what we needed to do to make Creedence viable, your input is important to the future success of XenServer. With that in mind, we'd like to hear what platform improvements you'd find most valuable. When I speak of platform improvements, I'm thinking of things like storage, networking, core virtualization, performance, scalability and operating system support. I'm not thinking of things which can be classified as data center or virtualization management, so things like network management, disaster recovery, or virtual machine provisioning are out of scope. Based on the blog comments for the various alpha announcements, we already know that CentOS 7 dom0, NFS4 and Ceph are on your wish lists, but what else?
Internally we use a "How would you spend $100?" model to prioritize changes, and if you were interested in providing feedback following that model, it would be ideal. If you've never used this model before, it's pretty simple. Write down the things you'd want to see (optionally with a "why" beside them), and then given a budget of $100. Spend the $100 by allocating it to your desired functionality, and anything with a zero is removed. This has the benefit of focusing on the high value changes without worrying about complexity. If you'd like to provide input, please do so in the comments section below, and let's see what the future of XenServer in 2015 looks like from your perspective.
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