[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk project discontinued

[Pau Garcia]

Hello

Thank you for your kind words about Uyuni, Michael.

For those of you interested in pursuing the Uyuni path, we have just released Uyuni 2020.07 and we will be holding our next monthly Uyuni Community Hours next Friday. More details here:
https://lists.opensuse.org/uyuni-users/2020-07/msg00074.html


Pau Garcia Quiles
SUSE Manager Product Owner & Technical Project Manager
SUSE Software Solutions Spain

________________________________
From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com> on behalf of Michael Mraka <michael.mraka at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2020 5:39 PM
To: spacewalk-announce-list at redhat.com <spacewalk-announce-list at redhat.com>; spacewalk-list at redhat.com <spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk project discontinued

Dear Spacewalkers,

You may have noticed that the number of Red Hat contributions decreased in the
last couple of months. This is aligned with our plan and communication. Now we
reached a state when no further contributions are planned from the Red Hat
side.


Let me clarify what it means for the community:
- Spacewalk 2.10 is the very last release
- Spacewalk github repositories have been archived (are read-only now)
- Red Hat won't commit any new code, provide any bug fixes (not even critical
  security ones), enhancement or accept any pull requests (it isn't possible to
  submit a PR to an archived repository)
- The spacewalk-announce-list at redhat.com and spacewalk-devel at redhat.com mailing
  lists will be archived
- Spacewalk contributors from Red Hat left #spacewalk-devel IRC channel on freenode
- All remaining Spacewalk bugreports have been closed and it is not possible to
  create new ones
- There's no one to track future security exposures, CVEs
- Due to the lack of further updates we strongly recommend not to expose
  running servers on a public network and keeping them within your private
  network

What will still be available:
- spacewalkproject.org pages (as they are, with no further changes)
- COPR repositories with Spacewalk packages, so it's possible:
  - to install new and upgrade existing Spacewalk servers (but with no further updates)
  - to fork them to make your own customizations
- #spacewalk IRC channel on freenode and
- spacewalk-list at redhat.com mailing list for the community to discuss Spacewalk
  related questions or issues
- read-only github repositories - anyone can clone and use them according to
  the General Public License (GPLv2) license


If you choose to, you may still run your existing or install new servers, use
already synced content, create or sync new one, manage existing or register new
clients. We know there will still be plenty of users that will keep operating
Spacewalk for some time.

Up to the current date, we're aware of only one public Spacewalk fork - Uyuni
project. We're encouraging everyone who'd like to stay with the codebase and
active community to check out this project.


We'd also like to take this opportunity and thank all developers and
contributors who helped us to create this project, to our long time users, to
people opening bug reports, debugging and fixing issues and to Red Hat to
sponsoring the project for all these years. It's been a pleasure and fun
working on Spacewalk, we've enjoyed it. Thank you!

See you in communities of other management projects!

Spacewalk team



--
Michael Mráka
Smart Management Engineering, Red Hat

_______________________________________________
Spacewalk-list mailing list
Spacewalk-list at redhat.com
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/attachments/20200725/1ddedceb/attachment.htm>