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

[Steve Kemp]

> >  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.

  That might be the case, I know a lot of the hosting companies I
 used to follow don't talk about Xen any more, and largely moved to
 KVM.  That might taint my views.

> 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.

  True, but in the past I used to use xen for spinning up short-lived
 things.  I didn't particularly need a full system, I just wanted
 isolation.  These days, even if isolation isn't perfect, docker is
 what I use.

> 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.

  Sure thing.  I might have been jumping too far there.  If you're
 happy with small releases every year or two then perhaps that
 status-quo could prevail for a while unless/until there is some
 interest from other maintainers.

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

  That's fair!


Steve
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