Alternatively, if all of a sudden a large number of customers show up willing to pay for RHV, the decision to drop it might be reversed.
On Sun, 6 Feb 2022, 14:10 David White via Users, <users@ovirt.org> 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 <https://protonmail.com/> Secure Email. > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/2HY52CQ3UXC4BGYDRTNRGRV3YK673FOV/ >
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