[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk got forked?! WTF is going on?!

[Michael Watters]

Microfocus (who owns Suse) is a very litigious company and it's best to
avoid anything associated with them in the first place. 


On 05/26/2018 08:36 AM, Neal Gompa wrote:
> Something is seriously wrong here.
>
> Today, I woke up to the news that SUSE forked Spacewalk[0] into Uyuni[1]
> (which frankly, is a hard name to say...). The explicit reason they gave
> for this was that despite requests to the community to step up to take over
> the Spacewalk project, the current Spacewalk leadership refused SUSE's
> offer to lead the community.
>
> To me, something sounds fishy about this, because I've historically known
> Red Hat folks to be very much community-first, so if Red Hat as a company
> was no longer interested in Satellite 5/Spacewalk, transitioning it to
> someone else who was interested in it should have been easy. However, the
> evidence they gave was pretty compelling[2]. At the same time, I have no
> means of verifying whether or not what SUSE is saying is true.
>
> As a Spacewalk user, I'm incredibly disappointed that the leadership
> managed to successfully drive away an interested party. At my scale (tens
> of servers), Spacewalk serves my needs perfectly.
>
> However, for those who think that Uyuni will be any better, my past
> experience with most SUSE teams has not been pleasant. They're usually not
> the most responsive group with their open source projects (KIWI[3]
> excepted). It's not a good sign that the SUSE Manager project development
> didn't already exist as an open branch to begin with.
>
> A splinter in the small development community around Spacewalk sucks, and
> the cursory glance at Uyuni seems to indicate that things are pretty broken
> for non-SUSE distributions.
>
> What is it going to take to heal this divide so that Uyuni goes away and
> the SUSE folks are part of the Spacewalk community?
>
> Please, I beg of you guys, fix this, please!
>
> [0]:
> https://news.opensuse.org/2018/05/26/uyuni-forking-spacewalk-with-salt-and-containers/
> [1]: https://www.uyuni-project.org
> [2]:
> https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalkproject.github.io/commit/24535d079f091c2f2a23a6ff6defafe9cf134577
> [3]: https://github.com/SUSE/kiwi
>
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