Hi everyone, adding committers, who would need to vote for or against the proposal. The title probably does not need an RFC, which is why no-one looked at it so far
I think this is a great idea and I would want to welcome XCP-ng into the project: with this in mind, I vote +1 Lars > On 22 Jul 2019, at 17:25, Olivier Lambert <lambert.oliv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > Following up on discussions that we had at the last Xen summit, we’re > submitting a Xen subproject proposal, regarding XCP-ng project > (https://xcp-ng.org <https://xcp-ng.org/>). Feel free to give your feedback! > > Regards, > > Olivier Lambert and XCP-ng team > > > # XCP-ng proposal > > ## The Project > > XCP-ng is a turn-key virtualization platform based on the Xen Hypervisor, > using existing Xen Project tools (XAPI). It's built from Xenserver source, > improved and maintained by both passionate individuals and companies. The > result is a completely free and Open Source solution available for everyone. > > Thanks to a very successful Kickstarter campaign as well as backing from > various companies, the project doesn't require any further funds and isn't > seeking monetary contributions. > > We believe forming a Xen sub-project within the Linux Foundation has the > potential to bring further companies and contributors into the Xen Project as > a whole, as well as demonstrate our dedication to open source. XCP-ng has > already displayed its ability to draw new users into the Xen virtualization > ecosystem. For new users, utilizing Xen from scratch can be daunting. XCP-ng > offers a way to solve this problem by drawing end-users more closely into the > Xen Project and providing an easy route for prospective Xen users to get > started with Xen. This is an area where Xen has been trailing KVM for a long > time. Hosting XCP-ng within the Xen Project provides a route to level the > playing field. It would also enable the Xen Project to leverage XCP-ng > success stories for the benefit of the Xen Project as a whole. > > ## The Mission > > Our goal is to continue development of XCP-ng while building a large > community of contributors to XCP-ng. We also expect an increase of > contributions to XAPI as well as the Xen Project. Through large community > involvement and contributions we have already turned XCP-ng into a stable > hypervisor platform that is used in small and large enterprise deployments. > > ## Upstream first, fully Open Source > > Vates and XCP-ng have started to work with a number of academic organizations > with the aim to fund and develop feature improvements and new features that > benefit the whole Xen Project ecosystem (including the Hypervisor and XAPI). > We follow an upstream first philosophy, which is possible because of the fast > release cycle of XCP-ng and expect to become a long-term contributor to XAPI > and the Hypervisor project. > > Besides contributions, we believe that an XCP-ng which is part of the Xen > Project will deliver other benefits: > > * Bring passionate and verbal XCP-ng users closer to the Xen Project > * Bring more publicity to the Xen Project: currently we have the XCP-ng blog, > newsletter and success stories, which we are willing to share with the Xen > Project > > With an incredibly active forum, IRC, and github, we are always looking for > more contributors to the project. We also believe in giving back to the open > source community via contributions to upstream projects, and we believe > becoming a Xen Project member will help in our ability to do so. To further > our dedication to open source, Vates SAS, the company with the most active > contributions to XCP-ng currently, is in the process of becoming a Linux > Foundation member. > > ## How we differ from existing platforms > > Our vision is to maintain XCP-ng as a complete easy-to-use hypervisor > solution similar to existing full-stack solutions. Where we differ is our > dedication to the open source mindset. We have no licensing system or license > restrictions, all pieces of the platform are free to use. Simultaneously, we > encourage community involvement and have merged many community contributions > already. > > ## Infrastructure > > The infrastructure will be primarily managed by Vates, with multiple > companies in partnership (mainly hosting companies owning DC real estate). > Access and resources can be given for people interested in becoming > maintainers. > > We would also like to expand the very active XCP-ng forum to also cover Xen > and XAPI, providing a modern user friendly interface for users to discuss the > hypervisor and related parts with dedicated sections. This will help to > centralize much Xen & XAPI discussion in a place that is easier for casual > users to find than a mailing list. > > ## Security > > XCP-ng has a dedicated email for security feedback (secur...@xcp-ng.org > <mailto:secur...@xcp-ng.org>) and is already a member of the Xen > pre-disclosure mailing list. > > ## License > > XCP-ng can be considered as a specialized Linux distribution, so there are > multiple packages inside it. However, most of its packages are licensed in > GPLv2. > > ## Contributors / Roles > > Project lead: Olivier Lambert (Vates SAS) > > * Github org: https://github.com/xcp-ng/ <https://github.com/xcp-ng/> > * Main website: https://xcp-ng.org <https://xcp-ng.org/> > > Extra notes: > > * we already contributed to Xen hypervisor (see > https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2019-02/msg01602.html > <https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2019-02/msg01602.html> > ) and we plan to do more in the future > * we already contributed to XAPI (see > https://github.com/xapi-project/xen-api-libs-transitional/commit/3f881066a1bdd4b52275e49edb57fba0d47c2dc9 > > <https://github.com/xapi-project/xen-api-libs-transitional/commit/3f881066a1bdd4b52275e49edb57fba0d47c2dc9> > ) > * we added new features (ZoL support, zstd compression…) > * we contributed to various other projects (eg: ZFS on Linux > https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/8866 > <https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/8866>) > * we are committed to invest money and time in R&D for XCP-ng (see > https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2018/12/19/xcp-ng-research-initiative/ > <https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2018/12/19/xcp-ng-research-initiative/> ) > * our dev process is fully documented and open: > https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/wiki/Development-process-tour > <https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/wiki/Development-process-tour> > * we have dev diaries explaining to everyone what we are working on, in > details: > https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/1036/dev-diaries-1-analyzing-storage-perf-smapiv3 > > <https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/1036/dev-diaries-1-analyzing-storage-perf-smapiv3>_______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org > https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
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