Something is seriously wrong here. Today, I woke up to the news that SUSE forked Spacewalk[0] into Uyuni[1] (which frankly, is a hard name to say...). The explicit reason they gave for this was that despite requests to the community to step up to take over the Spacewalk project, the current Spacewalk leadership refused SUSE's offer to lead the community.
To me, something sounds fishy about this, because I've historically known Red Hat folks to be very much community-first, so if Red Hat as a company was no longer interested in Satellite 5/Spacewalk, transitioning it to someone else who was interested in it should have been easy. However, the evidence they gave was pretty compelling[2]. At the same time, I have no means of verifying whether or not what SUSE is saying is true. As a Spacewalk user, I'm incredibly disappointed that the leadership managed to successfully drive away an interested party. At my scale (tens of servers), Spacewalk serves my needs perfectly. However, for those who think that Uyuni will be any better, my past experience with most SUSE teams has not been pleasant. They're usually not the most responsive group with their open source projects (KIWI[3] excepted). It's not a good sign that the SUSE Manager project development didn't already exist as an open branch to begin with. A splinter in the small development community around Spacewalk sucks, and the cursory glance at Uyuni seems to indicate that things are pretty broken for non-SUSE distributions. What is it going to take to heal this divide so that Uyuni goes away and the SUSE folks are part of the Spacewalk community? Please, I beg of you guys, fix this, please! [0]: https://news.opensuse.org/2018/05/26/uyuni-forking-spacewalk-with-salt-and-containers/ [1]: https://www.uyuni-project.org [2]: https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalkproject.github.io/commit/24535d079f091c2f2a23a6ff6defafe9cf134577 [3]: https://github.com/SUSE/kiwi -- 真実はいつも一つ!/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-devel mailing list Spacewalk-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-devel