There are at least some options I've heard discussed, if anyone has feedback: -Someone to take over the xCAT 2.x codebase as-is, adding some missing stuff like Ubuntu 20+ support, RHEL9, etc. I don't know that anyone has volunteered to go all in on all that exactly yet.
-Try to establish a community around confluent (potentially as 'xCAT 3'). This may suggest some sort of rebranding and/or governance changes, but basically starting from confluent instead of xCAT 2 for the xCAT-like experience. Not precisely xCAT-like but was designed "by one of the designers of xCAT 2" with a lot of sensibilities preserved. Given that there's not much in the way of 'backwards compatibility', I'm cautious about the 'xCAT 3' branding, and while I would be a consistent contributor across xCAT 2.0 through 2.8 and then confluent, it would technically be a change from an IBM to Lenovo contributions, which I could see being a challenge. -The current default trajectory is an archived project and people having to decide for themselves what to do next (only 'all-in-one' options that I know to be cross-platform are Bright and Confluent, if just OS deployment, then I commonly see Foreman used for diskful, with Warewulf being an option for mostly diskless scenario). Obviously, I like Confluent best, but of course I would. ________________________________ From: Brian Joiner <martinitime1...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2023 9:57 AM To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [External] Re: [xcat-user] Announcement: xCAT Project End-Of-Life planned for December 1, 2023 This is the saddest thing I've hear in some time. I've had the chance to support customers with Bright, HP cluster manager, and xCAT. xCAT was by far the best. Thank you for all your work, I hope that a transition can happen! Thanks, Brian J On 9/1/23 11:49 AM, Nathan A Besaw via xCAT-user wrote: Mark Gurevich, Peter Wong, and I have been the primary xCAT maintainers for the past few years. This year, we have moved on to new roles unrelated to xCAT and can no longer continue to support the project. As a result, we plan to archive the project on December 1, 2023. xCAT 2.16.5, released on March 7, 2023, is our final planned release. We would consider transitioning responsibility for the project to a new group of maintainers if members of the xCAT community can develop a viable proposal for future maintenance. Thank you all for you support of the project over the past 20+ years. _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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