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.
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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