And when I said "I claim to be".... I meant to say: I do NOT claim to be. :)

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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. 
> 

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