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

Hi, I am the head of the oVirt China User Community, which is founded and maintained by a non-profit organization. Our site: www.cnovirt.com.

First of all, thanks to the oVirt community for providing such an excellent open source project. We hope this project can continue forever.Our community currently has 1000+ registered users and an online communication group of 500+ enthusiasts. The work we have done so far: 1. Share the oVirt tutorial in Chinese. 2. Answer the questions in the use of oVirt. (Due to language problems, these users cannot directly participate in the maillist) 3. The oVirt mirror site has been established: http://mirror.massclouds.com/ovirt/, which is convenient for users in China to obtain and update software packages. 4. Publish and maintain oVirt desktop client software opencc, https://github.com/cnovirt/opencc-ovirt-pro, https://gitee.com/cnovirt/opencc-ovirt-pro. 5. Publish and maintain the offline version, merge the engine rpm into the node and remove the dependency on the external network during deployment. An iso image of the engine is made to facilitate independent deployment. We plan to contribute to the community in the following ways: 1. Collect user questions and feedback bugs to the community. 2. Try to participate in bug fixes. 3. Submit some code, such as oVirt's support for arm architecture and loongarch. 4. Participate in the preparation of Chinese version documents.

-- Jingda Zhao 发件人："Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com&gt; 发送日期：2022-02-07 15:54:30 收件人："Nathanaël Blanchet" <blanchet(a)abes.fr&gt;,&quot;Sanja Bonic" < sbonic(a)redhat.com&gt; 抄送人："Thomas Hoberg" <thomas(a)hoberg.net&gt;,&quot;oVirt Users" <users(a)ovirt.org&gt; 主题：[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: > Can anybody from redhat confirm what is supposed here, all my staff > depends on the future of ovirt. How can we help to maintain this project > alive if redhat dev are not implicated anymore? I may donate some hardware > or is it unuseful? > 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. > Le 5 févr. 2022 11:31, Thomas Hoberg a écrit : > > > Please have a look here: > https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhev/ > > Without a commercial product to pay the vast majority of the developers, > there is just no chance oVirt can survive (unless you're ready to take > over). RHV 4.4 full support ends this August and that very likely means > that oVirt won't receive updates past July (judging by how things happened > with 4.3). > > And those will be CI tested against the Stream Beta not EL8 including > RHEL. > > Only with a RHV support contract ($) you will receive service until 2024 > and with extended support ($$$) until 2026. > > oVirt is dead already. They have known since October. They should have > told us last year. > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/ZPQ7DO75CVI... > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/DDYD27NS5QB... > -- 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. 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