[Ovirt-devel] roadmap & development

[Javier Ramirez Molina]

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I think Anthony has a good point. There was initially a lot of buzz and
> excitement around oVirt but, if someone came upon the project now,
> they'd be forgiven for wondering why things have gone so quiet.
>
> It's probably obvious to anyone following the project closely what has
> happened - most of the developers on the project were from Red Hat and
> when Red Hat acquired Qumranet in September 2008, Red Hat's focus
> started moving towards releasing what eventually became RHEV.
>
> Since ovirt-node is the upstream of RHEV-H and ovirt-server isn't a part
> of RHEV, Red Hat folks gradually stopped working on ovirt-server. This
> happened quietly and without any fuss since I guess everyone hoped the
> project would continue to flourish. This could have been handled better.
>
> Despite the best efforts of Arthur, Michel, Nicolas and Simon
> ovirt-server has gone very quiet and there hasn't been a new release
> since May.
>
> You're probably asking what this has to do with me? Well, I've been
> working on RHEV-M this past year (e.g. see rhevm-api[1]) and hope that
> RHEV-M will be open-sourced without too much more delay.
>
> An idea that has occurred to a few of us is that this could be a great
> opportunity to re-invigorate and re-launch the oVirt project. That would
> mean adding the RHEV-M codebase to oVirt (as ovirt-manager, perhaps) and
> kick-starting oVirt again.
>

As a non developer, I really love that idea. I like RHEV and I
completely understand the circumstances and the reasons why is not
completely open source, but I think it should exists an upstream
project that cope not only rhev-h but also rhev-m.

> The tricky part of this is what would happen the ovirt-server codebase.
> Would it end up just being deprecated, or some people might be
> interested in re-factoring it into a frontend UI talking to
> ovirt-manager. I don't know.
>
> This is just an idea. Maybe it's a terrible one. Perhaps folks here feel
> they could continue to build upon ovirt-server and make oVirt a kick-ass
> community again?
>
> I only ever watched oVirt from the sidelines and I thought it rocked. I
> really believe that we could make oVirt rock again with this idea.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark.
>
> [1] - https://fedorahosted.org/rhevm-api
>
>
> On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 09:22 -0500, Anthony Goddard wrote:
>> Hi there,
>> I'm very interested in oVirt as a management interface for a VM setup
>> we're building, however it seems as though there isn't much info on
>> the product roadmap or active development. I'm wondering if anyone
>> could point me to more information on the roadmap or commit activity
>> on the project?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Anthony
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