[xen-tools-discuss] xen-tools 4.8 released; could need a better maintainer

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Steve,

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 05:56:45PM +0000, Steve Kemp wrote:
>   While I can't help with that, I do want to thank you for the
>  time you've spent with the project.

You're welcome!

>  It started off as a quick hack, and has certainly improved
>  significantly in the time you've been in charge.

Thanks! There's nevertheless still a lot of your work in there, too.

>  Somewhere along the way Xen seems to have died out a little,

I don't think so. There might be more competitors and each one gets
smaller pieces of the cake, but there are also still a lot of people
relying on it.

>  I guess kvm really got better,

For me, kvm is still only suitable for quickly starting up some
throwaway VMs, and networking is still annoying to configure.

If I want all the infrastructure I have with Xen + Xen-Tools with kvm,
I seem to need the full bloat of libvirt, dbus and what not.

>  and then containers happened.

Well, that's IMHO a different thing. Containers don't provide complete
machines and the use cases are usually a better chroot-thingy.

>  It may be the project struggles to find a new maintainer

Please note that I neither orphaned it nor that I stated that I will
stop working on it.

I just wanted to make clear that if someone is unhappy with my
maintenance intervals and wants to take over the lead, I'm happy to
give the project's steering wheel to someone else.

>  and needs to die.

Definitely not! Letting projects just die is not my way of handling
open source projects which still have users.

Besides and as mentioned before: I still use and need it, just not
very often.

		Kind regards, Axel
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