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LXD Maintainership Being Limited to Canonical Employees

by hpb42 on 7/27/23, 6:38 PM with 9 comments

• by CameronNemo on 7/27/23, 7:58 PM

  Serge Hallyn, Stéphane 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.

• by LightFog on 7/27/23, 7:39 PM

  Nothing like a good recession to get these corporations showing their true colors.

• by hpb42 on 7/28/23, 3:28 PM

  There's a difference between maintainer and contributor. Canonical is now the maintainer of LXD, but I think they would still accept contributions from the community. I've contributed in the past to some projects from Canonical, I hope they continue accepting contributions.

  The main point I see here is: LXD is not a community-driven project anymore. LXD now follows what Canonical wants/needs, not necessarily what the community wants/needs.

• by salawat on 7/27/23, 8:55 PM

  Impending fork in 3...2...1...

• by user6723 on 7/28/23, 6:53 PM

  Fork