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FreeNAS promoted a major version to release, turns out it was half baked and they pulled the release a few _weeks_ after. Lost a lot of faith in the community.

• slededit 9y ago
  These disasters always come after "ground up" rewrites. The lesson has been clear since Netscape almost imploded in the 90s, evolve the existing code - don't rewrite.
  • mbell 9y ago
    That's largely due to 'failure bias'. You hear a lot more about failed rewrites than you do successful ones. I've been involved with a number of full rewrites over the years and all of them ended up greatly improving the product and development process.
    • slededit 9y ago
      How large were these products? I've also experienced rewrites that went somewhat successfully, but I can't say we wouldn't have been better off upgrading the existing code in place.