On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 12:59 PM Maxim Dounin <mdou...@mdounin.ru> wrote: > > As you probably know, F5 closed Moscow office in 2022, and I no > longer work for F5 since then. Still, we’ve reached an agreement > that I will maintain my role in nginx development as a volunteer. > And for almost two years I was working on improving nginx and > making it better for everyone, for free. > > Unfortunately, some new non-technical management at F5 recently > decided that they know better how to run open source projects. In > particular, they decided to interfere with security policy nginx > uses for years, ignoring both the policy and developers’ position. > > That’s quite understandable: they own the project, and can do > anything with it, including doing marketing-motivated actions, > ignoring developers position and community. Still, this > contradicts our agreement. And, more importantly, I no longer able > to control which changes are made in nginx within F5, and no longer > see nginx as a free and open source project developed and > maintained for the public good. > > As such, starting from today, I will no longer participate in nginx > development as run by F5. Instead, I’m starting an alternative > project, which is going to be run by developers, and not corporate > entities: > > http://freenginx.org/ > > The goal is to keep nginx development free from arbitrary corporate > actions. Help and contributions are welcome. Hope it will be > beneficial for everyone.
Thanks for all the hard work, Maxim. There's a Request for Packaging for freenginx over at Debian at <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1063916>. Hopefully someone will pick it up quickly. Jeff _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org https://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
