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

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Steve,

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 07:08:55PM +0000, Steve Kemp wrote:
> > >  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.

One clear advantage of KVM is that it doesn't need a separate
hypervisor. And especially where hosting is what brings in money,
better performance might be higher weighted than I do.

> > >  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.

Ok, I guess we just have quite different use cases here. Could also be
that I'm old style, but I usually want to be able to run "apt update"
inside my VMs which especially Docker is not made for. :-)

> > 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.

*nod*

		Kind regards, Axel
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