Re: Future of Satellite
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Jonathan Underwood
<jonathan.underwood(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 19 September 2011 20:29, Jörgen Maas <jorgen.maas(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Konrad Scherer
> <konrad.scherer(a)windriver.com> wrote:
>>
>> As a happy and grateful user of cobbler I have noticed that the cobbler project
>> is not as active as it used to be. Is it time for me to move on?
>>
>
> Unfortunately I have come to the same conclusions.
> The cobbler project looks like it's dying a slow death.
>
> So yes, I guess it's time to move on ;).
>
I think if you were to look at the activity in the source code
repository, you might draw a different conclusion. Also, you might
want to look at this:
http://michaeldehaan.net/2011/05/14/about-that-scaling-thing/
That said, the perception that cobbler is dying as a project probably
has something to do with the lack of release management of late...
That post was one of the reasons I wrote the mongodb backend :)
But yes, cobbler always does seem to go through lulls in activity,
something I try to change periodically by contributing fixes and an
occasional major feature (see import modules). I use cobbler now more
than I ever had in the past, and I see a lot of people out there using
it still. I'm not a fan of foreman, and I haven't found anything else
I like as much as my cobbler/puppet combo.
If you think cobbler is fading, change that by contributing. There's
always a need for snippets, especially for the newer supported distros
like debian and ubuntu.