Microfocus (who owns Suse) is a very litigious company and it's best to avoid anything associated with them in the first place.
On 05/26/2018 08:36 AM, Neal Gompa wrote: > 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-list mailing list > Spacewalk-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
