Il giorno mar 6 apr 2021 alle ore 18:45 Sandro Bonazzola < sbona...@redhat.com> ha scritto:
> > > Il giorno ven 2 apr 2021 alle ore 17:12 David White via Users < > users@ovirt.org> ha scritto: > >> I'm replying to Thomas's thread below, but am creating a new subject so >> as not to hijack the original thread. >> >> I'm sure that this topic has come up before. > > > It has been raised in different places multiple times, just mentioning a > few: > > - > https://www.reddit.com/r/ovirt/comments/lrpl4h/rhv_moving_to_openshift_virtualization_what/ > - > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/thread/DE3S4POHD37CSGWCGMNTBTCHQERWD7E3/#VIYHOW3WDR6N4APWIXQQONVHNXT3LK5L > - > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/thread/A3Z7SWWOTGASTLZKPRNPFGZES5FHIJ7L/#OGMDBFAQD5VDTXJPFTCC2BAPPZ2IDMFK > > but don't worry, this one won't be the last :-) > > > >> I first joined this list last fall, when I began planning and testing >> with oVirt, but as of the past few weeks, I'm paying closer attention to >> the mailing list now that I'm actually using oVirt and am getting ready to >> deploy to a production environment. >> >> I'll also try to jump in and help other people as time permits and as my >> experience grow. >> > > On behalf of the other users, thanks for doing it! > > >> >> I echo Thomas's concerns here. While I'm thankful for Red Hat's gesture >> to allow people to use up to 16 Red Hat installs at no charge, I'm >> concerned about the longevity of oVirt, now that Red Hat is no longer going >> to support RHV going forward. >> >> What is the benefit to Red Hat / IBM of supporting this platform now that >> it is no longer being commercialized as a Red Hat product? What is to >> prevent Red Hat from pulling the plug on this project, similar to what >> happened to CentOS 8? >> > > CentOS Linux is a downstream project with a trademark owned by Red Hat > that delivered rebuilds of a Red Hat product. > oVirt is an upstream open source project that is consumed by Red Hat, > Oracle, OpenEuler, KylinOS (and I don't know how many others) for their > downstream products. > Despite Red Hat published a life cycle page for Red Hat Virtualization 4.4 > will reach end of life in 2026 that has nothing to do with the life of the > oVirt project which depends only on how long the community will keep > investing in it. > > > As a user of oVirt (4.5, installed on Red Hat 8.3), how can I and others > help to contribute to the project to ensure its longevity? > > Thanks for asking! A few way community can help keep oVirt project healthy: > - Helping new users as you are doing > - Submitting patches (kudos to community user Jean-Louis Dupond who > recently pushed patches fixing the issues he found while using oVirt) > - Testing release candidates and reporting issues > - Contributing to oVirt documentation > - Donating hardware / virtual machines (yes: time, good will and code are > not enough to keep a project healthy) > - Getting other distributions engaged with oVirt (like AlmaLinux, > RockyLinux, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Gentoo, Debian, ...) so they can package > oVirt and ship it in their repositories > Forgot to mention helping with translations! > > The more people are going to contribute to the project the longer the > community will live, as for any other open source project. > > Also a note for any company / community out there willing to put 10 or > more developers working on the oVirt project: as strategic contributor you > can ask to join the oVirt Board: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/board.html and help defining the > oVirt project future. > > > >> >> Or should I really just go find an alternative in the future? (I had been >> planning to use oVirt for a while, and did some testing last fall, so the >> announcement of RHV's (commercial) demise was poor timing for me, because I >> don't have time to switch gears and change my plans to use something else, >> like Proxmox or something. >> >> From what I've seen, this is a great product, and I guess I can >> understand Red Hat's decision to pull the plug on the commercial project, >> now that OpenShift supports full VMs. But my understanding is that >> OpenShift is a lot more complicated and requires more resources. I really >> don't need a full kubernetes environment. I just need a stable >> virtualization platform. >> > > I'm happy to read positive feedback on oVirt :-) > > -- > > Sandro Bonazzola > > MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV > > Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> > > sbona...@redhat.com > <https://www.redhat.com/> > > *Red Hat respects your work life balance. Therefore there is no need to > answer this email out of your office hours.* > > > -- Sandro Bonazzola MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> sbona...@redhat.com <https://www.redhat.com/> *Red Hat respects your work life balance. Therefore there is no need to answer this email out of your office hours. <https://mojo.redhat.com/docs/DOC-1199578>*
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