Hi,
I think this is a huge step back but have the same feeling that
arguing with the maintainer(s) isn't really fruitful most of the time :(
I was one of the maintainers for a bit, but even I have given up :(
I'm not even trying to solve
https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox/issues/5469 anymore.
I was wondering: how do other NetBox users deal with this? Maintain
your own fork (there seem to be MANY forks on GitHub), stick with a
version that works, ...?
For now I'm sticking with 2.9.x but eventually there needs to be a
solution which is save to update.
Same for me.
I know there are people already looking to do a LibreNMS-style fork of
NetBox and continue development under more community-friendly
management. Would people be interested in something like that? Because
that's definitely the style that I want to contribute to :)
I'm thinking of forking netbox for a while not as I have to work around for
a number of things which could IMHO easily be added natively. From my point
of view the most pressing things are
* custom fields on interfaces (which are "not required" as the
maintainers think) and where I work around by having an ifaces dict
in config contexts (primary for GRE tunnels)
* Modelling Wifi PTP connections (which is accepted, see #3979)
* more API stability so you don't have to update your consumer
systems every other minor release (a bit exaggerating, but not much)
* Support for bridges (I would implement that like LAGs)
As I have quite a bit on my plate as it is I'm not too keen on doing
all that but if there were a mostly compatible fork with the mentioned
spirit I'd be up for adding stuff like the briding as it would save me
quite a lot of pain by working around it by tags/config contexts.
Thanks!
I know there is a company that is willing to support a NetBox fork with
money and/or time, but I'll leave it up to them to announce their plans.
Thanks for you effors on the CWDM/DWDM/cabling stuff, I followed that
a bit in the issues; it's very helpful and very much appreaciated <3
Thanks! Just so annoying that Jeremy breaks it with every thing he does.
I almost feel like he does it intentionally because it doesn't fit in
his world view :/
Cheers,
Sander
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