[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk project discontinued

[Brian Long]

Pau,
Without reading the detailed documentation, is Uyuni a true replacement or
upgrade for Spacewalk 2.10, managing CentOS 6, 7 and 8 as well as RHEL 6, 7
and 8, or is it more tied to Suse distributions now?

Thanks.

/Brian/

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 8:17 PM Pau Garcia <pau.garcia at suse.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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> *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
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> *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 - Spacewalk github repositories have been archived (are read-only now)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
>
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