On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 07:01:52 AM Jakub Kruszona-Zawadzki wrote: > We just want to add MooseFS to official Debian repositories. > [..] > For me both packages should be available in Debian repositories,
Except for promoting MooseFS I do not see any benefits from introducing
MooseFS to Debian but there are numerous cons.
> The only problem is that they didn't change name of
> binaries (which in my personal opinion is kind of stupid - moosefs =
> mfsmaster,mfschunkserver,mfsmount etc, LizardFS should be
> lfsmaster,lfschunkservder,lfsmount etc.).
As far as I'm aware that was deliberate choice in order to allow seamless
upgrades from MooseFS. I think renaming is planned but it is a low priority
thing.
> They [LizardFS] actively develop their product, but much slower than
> original (my personal opinion, but we check their product regularly).
Well thankfully it is not a race... Since MooseFS do not have public bug
tracker or VCS I supose you might be in unique position to compare speed of
development. However independent observer will hardly be able to reach the
same conclusion.
> This is a fork,
> so they develop this product in different way and of course it also means
> that in some rare cases they product is even better than MooseFS. So I
> absolutely agree that for sure there are some people who will find
> LizardFS better than MooseFS and therefore both projects should be
> available in the package repositories.
I disagree. For Debian there will be undesirable overhead from having two
similar software products. It would also cause needless confusion for our
users. When choosing between the two I give preference to LizardFS due to
greater potential and development transparency. At this time introducing
MooseFS to Debian is unnecessary but situation may change in the future.
> We know everything about LizardFS. Whole company is run by the guy who was
> fired from our company (he was not a developer, but our it administrator,
> so he knew MooseFS very well). He "stole" two developers from our company
> (they never were involved in moosefs developing, but they also knew this
> product). The whole story is not very nice, but leave it. This is their
> right to make fork of actively developed project. As you wrote - they have
> their own investor and therefore their own goal. I do not care about it.
Thank you for interesting insights about projects history.
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Best wishes,
Dmitry Smirnov.
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