[ovirt-users] Re: RHGS and RHV closing down: could you please put that on the home page?

Il giorno sab 5 feb 2022 alle ore 13:30 Nathanaël Blanchet <blanchet(a)abes.fr&gt; ha scritto: Looks like this is being asked on several channels so I guess I'll end up writing a blog post or add some statement on the oVirt home page. Anyway, let me reiterate the message: This has been discussed publicly ( https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/VIYHOW3WDR6... ) As a product, Redhat Virtualization has a different lifecycle than oVirt which is a community project. What will be the future of oVirt project depends on how the community will be shaping it. As members of the Red Hat team working on the oVirt project we are actively doing whatever we can to ensure that the project will survive after we'll stop working on it in the future. - We are moving the development to public platform (GitHub) - We are changing our release process to ship oVirt builds via widely supported community systems like Fedora COPR and CentOS CBS. - We started a peering program helping whoever would like to start having an active role in oVirt community trying to make the onboarding as easy as possible ( https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/QQVZHTFBF7N... ) - We actively reached out to Rocky Linux, Alma Linux and Oracle, trying to engage them (CentOS is already engaged providing Community Build System for Virtualization SIG). So, what will be the future of the oVirt project depends on how the community will be shaping it. You're welcome to contribute to shaping this future! https://ovirt.org/develop/ Up to now: - We have one person who reached out being interested to the peering program, Maithreyi Gopal ( https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/devel@ovirt.org/message/TSSE7U36UQT... ) and she's been peered with @Sanja Bonic <sbonic(a)redhat.com&gt; . - Rocky Linux replied they were discussing within the Foundation meeting about oVirt but I didn't got the result of the discussion yet. - Oracle replied they are looking to get a list of OLVM developers that can join the peering program in October 2021 but nobody reached out so far. - I don't remember I have seen any reply from Alma so far. - Tried to reach out to oVirt China http://www.cnovirt.com/ as they seems to ship a rebuild of oVirt targeting Chinese speaking users without any success That said, no : oVirt is not dead. oVirt 4.5 is being developed actively and it has 566 bugzilla tickets targeting it: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=target_milestone%3Aov... and 242 of them have been already handled. -- Sandro Bonazzola MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> sbonazzo(a)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.*