You've read more into that tweet then I ever would, saying " we are a small startup with limited resources" doesn't really imply anything to me on whether they are or have been working on BSD support. Has DO made any promises about delivery date here? Did they imply anything that could be construed as "overpromising"? I mean any company or OS project has plenty of stuff they "have been working on" for many years, I wouldn't say they've overpromised on anything unless they made explicit commitments and failed to meet them.
When you official declare that you started a feature over 15 months ago and then provide no uodate on schedule or release - and this is just one if many times they so this, you begin to feel like these features they promise too will never happen.
Alex Polvi stopped by our office a couple of weeks ago and we spoke about integrating CoreOS. He offered to provide a lot of additional support to get this rolled out including managing them images so that we can have official CoreOS images that are maintained by them when they are ready.
Given how their systems are laid out and spun up we discussed the changes that would be needed and it looks like the metadata service that we have begun writing solves a lot of the challenges.
We’re moving this to planned stage, as soon as we finish the metadata service we can begin testing it internally around getting CoreOS as a supported distro in DigitalOcean.
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Don't get your hope up.
The #2 feature of all time requested is BSD support.
DO "started" this feature over a year ago.
http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean...
Then on twitter recently they act like they aren't even working on BSD support.
https://mobile.twitter.com/digitalocean/status/4407445438564...
TLDR: DO over promises on features they will deliver
Edit: fixed link
You've read more into that tweet then I ever would, saying " we are a small startup with limited resources" doesn't really imply anything to me on whether they are or have been working on BSD support. Has DO made any promises about delivery date here? Did they imply anything that could be construed as "overpromising"? I mean any company or OS project has plenty of stuff they "have been working on" for many years, I wouldn't say they've overpromised on anything unless they made explicit commitments and failed to meet them.
When you official declare that you started a feature over 15 months ago and then provide no uodate on schedule or release - and this is just one if many times they so this, you begin to feel like these features they promise too will never happen.
Given how their systems are laid out and spun up we discussed the changes that would be needed and it looks like the metadata service that we have begun writing solves a lot of the challenges.
Updated 15 July 2014
Looks pretty promising to me.