[HN Gopher] LXD Maintainership Being Limited to Canonical Employees
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       LXD Maintainership Being Limited to Canonical Employees
        
       Author : hpb42
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2023-07-27 18:38 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | salawat wrote:
       | Impending fork in 3...2...1...
        
         | fatfingerd wrote:
         | Is it? I felt much more at home with LXC/LXD when I looked into
         | the container options but I feel like it basically lost to
         | overwhelming hype.. Add a situation like this and maybe that's
         | the end outside of some very small group of existing users?
        
         | nine_k wrote:
         | What would be the point of a fork? Is there a controversial
         | patchset that can't be accepted by current maintainers? Or,
         | conversely, is anything important being done by the current
         | maintainers what the community at large is unhappy about?
         | 
         | I can imagine an _eventual_ fork, like gcc  / grcs or xfree86 /
         | x.org of old, if a real issue to split on crops up.
        
       | LightFog wrote:
       | Nothing like a good recession to get these corporations showing
       | their true colors.
        
         | nathanaldensr wrote:
         | A very astute observation. Everything is free, happy, and
         | philanthropic as long as cheap Fed money is pouring down from
         | the heavens.
        
           | kazen44 wrote:
           | Also, the open source projects not doing this are either have
           | a fierce policy of no corporate interference (openbsd) or
           | have very strict guidelines about keeping their codebases
           | purely opensource (debian).
           | 
           | these kind shenanigans are looked down upon, especially from
           | a operations perspective.
           | 
           | I want a boring operating system goddammit, without getting
           | either grifted by a corporation (redhat/IBM) or having to
           | deal with plain anti-user behaviour (microsoft).
        
       | CameronNemo wrote:
       | Serge Hallyn, Stephane Graber, and Christian Brauner are/were
       | some of the most prolific contributors to LXC and LXD. It is hard
       | to tell from the Github insights, because they typically used
       | their canonical email and no longer have that tied to their
       | account.
       | 
       | Sad to see an open source project that they basically started
       | from scratch be ripped away from them.
       | 
       | As an aside, congrats to Poettering for successfully keeping
       | systemd separate from IBM and hanging onto maintainership when
       | moved to Microsoft.
        
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