Hi all,
Last November, Red Hat announced Project Hummingbird [1], a catalog of minimal, hardened container images designed to accelerate application development with a minimal CVE strategy. The images include the latest languages and runtimes (Node, Go, .NET, Java, Python, Rust, Ruby), developer databases (PostgreSQL, MariaDB), web servers and proxies (Nginx, Caddy, HAProxy), and other foundational components for modern application stacks [3].
What's interesting for Fedora: Project Hummingbird is built using the open source development process, originating from Fedora Linux components (some Rawhide, some Stable). The press release notes that unsupported images are freely available and redistributable, following a similar model to Red Hat Universal Base Image (UBI) [5]. The work is already happening in the open [2] with images available [3].
We'd like to explore bringing this work more formally into the Fedora community and creating a space where this innovation can continue in the open. This would follow similar patterns we've seen with other successful incubation efforts in Fedora like ELN [4].
Before we go down the formal Change Proposal path, I wanted to gauge community interest and see if there's appetite for this kind of project.
Thoughts?
P.S. I'm heading on PTO tomorrow April 23rd, but I'll be back on Monday, April 27th. I commit to reading and responding to any messages when I return.
Kind Regards Scott McCarty
References: [1] https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-introduces-project-hu... [2] https://gitlab.com/redhat/hummingbird/containers [3] https://quay.io/organization/hummingbird [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ELN_Buildroot_and_Compose [5]: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introducing-red-hat-universal-base-image