Hi Timothée, On November 14, 2022 7:18:45 PM UTC, "Timothée Ravier" <si...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: >Hi everyone, > >The moby-engine package [1] (also known as Docker) has been orphaned in Fedora >and is looking for a new maintainer. The waiting period will soon be over and >the package will be retired if nobody steps in. > >This means that the package will be unavailable starting with the next release >of Fedora (Fedora 38) that should happen in approximately 5 to 6 months. > >If you are using this package and are interested in helping maintaining it, >now is the time to come forward!
I'm using docker for $dayjob and would be willing to help out a bit, but I will not be the main maintainer, as I don't feel comfortable taking such a huge package and lack the cycles for that. > >This notably impacts Fedora CoreOS as we are including the moby-engine package >by default to let users pick their container engine of choice whithout >deciding for them in advance. We offer both major container engines by default >in the image (podman and moby-engine). No offense, but this sounds like that this is something the Fedora coreos team should tackle. Given that Fedora coreos appears to be driven to a large extend by redhat (at least that's my impression, please correct me if I'm wrong), I find it a bit odd that the business is asking volunteers to step up to help the business out... > >If the moby-engine package ends up being retired for Fedora 38, then we will >have to recommend to its users on Fedora CoreOS that they either switch to the >official Docker packages [2] or move to containerd or podman when the rebase >to Fedora 38 happens alongside the Fedora 38 release [3]. > >Note that we will likely not remove the containerd package from Fedora CoreOS >as it is still maintained in Fedora and is currently used by Kubernetes >distributions based on Fedora CoreOS (such as Typhoon for example). > >See also the Fedora CoreOS tracker issue [4] for more details. > >[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/moby-engine >[2] https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/fedora/ >[3] https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-38/f-38-key-tasks.html >[4] https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/1291 > >Thanks, > >Timothée Ravier for the Fedora CoreOS team >_______________________________________________ >devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >Fedora Code of Conduct: >https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ >List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >List Archives: >https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >Do not reply to spam, report it: >https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
