And when I said "I claim to be".... I meant to say: I do NOT claim to be. :)
Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ------- Original Message ------- On Sunday, February 6th, 2022 at 2:07 PM, David White <dmwhite...@protonmail.com> wrote: > At the risk of sounding like a Red Hat or IBM fanboy, I have decided to give > Red Hat the benefit of the doubt here, and to not make any decisions about > switching off of oVirt until and unless an official announcement is made. > > In the meantime, I know that I need to move off of Gluster (and I made that > decision before the Gluster announcement), and I would need storage with any > other solution anyway, so that's where I'm going to focus my own efforts. > > In the meantime, while I realize that the optics of a company like IBM / Red > Hat shutting a project like oVirt down looks bad to the FOSS community, I'm > going to push back a little bit. We have had access to a FOSS application > that obviously works for a lot of people. No company is required to provide > their services for free, and likewise, I'm of the opinion that one needs to > be willing to pay (or contribute in some way) for a quality product service. > It reminds me of the mantra: "Fast, Cheap, Free - pick two". > > So here's an alternative perspective: What can the community contribute and > do in order to keep the project going? Anyone could fork it, rebrand it, and > run with it. > > I claim to be a software developer, and the uplink in my datacenter is only > 100mbps right now (of course I can increase it when needed), so I doubt I > could provide much value in terms of hosting or coding. > > But I do know security. I'm a Linux systems engineer with over 10 years of > experience. I know website content management systems. And people have told > me that I'm good at documentation. So I think I have a lot of skill sets that > I could "offer" (albeit I don't have much time, and as we all know, time is > money. I've been dealing with a serious personal matter since beginning of > December, and I'm effectively an acting single parent at the moment). > > I'll end this the way I started: I'm going to wait to see what happens before > I personally make any decisions to change my entire underlying virtualization > infrastructure. In the meantime, I'll continue to work on what I can control > - the underlying storage. And if oVirt does shutdown in the future, I'd love > to have a conversation with anyone interested in helping out to fork the > project and keep it running. > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.
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