Hello,

I have read several pessimistic posts of you, each time to be against
the decisions of the ovirt community that you disagree. In general, my
thoughts are that you want the community to be responsible for the
Redhat descisions.

Like you I find RHV end of support very sad, but I unlike you I believe
oVirt is so an incredible software, and also an example of opensource
success project that, I do believe, will survive thanks to awesome
people who have been contributing it for 10 years. Other downstream
projects like OLVM decided to switch from Xen to KVM.

I've been working with ovirt since the very beginning in a large
production success. Every people in my IT team are convinced that oVit
makes our IT very stable and flexible (more than 300 VMs), and we
convinced some partner to adopt it as well. My pain is that the oVirt
project is underrated in comparison of the quality of the code, but you
and I are actors of its popularity. I initially was not a developer, but
thanks to oVirt, I'm now able to write complex playbooks for automatic
deployments, as well I'm able now to debug python code. What I mean is
that the project depends on the community members contribution, each one
with his own capacity. For my own, I can help many beginners on the
mailing list with simple tips as well as some others can translate into
other languages.

Yes, I am aware of competitors projects like proxmox, xen and now
XCP-NG. There is no perfect project. Everybody should be involved into a
project that corresponds to its expectations.

In reality, I wonder about the goal of your posts, it seems that nothing
goes into the good direction from your point of view... Did you
contribute to change that? Did you pay anything to be so demanding?

Thank you to all community for providing such a wonderful software, and
a specific mention to community leaders (Sandro?) and other
contributors, we need positive attitudes.

If some beginners read my post, I want to tell them they are welcome,
and they can be sure to find some quality into code, into updates, into
innovation, into entreprise features, into mailing list support, and
they are welcome to contribute to make virtualization greater and greater!

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