Dstat project ended due to RedHat replacing it with its own dstat tool

Re:Dstat project ended due to RedHat replacing it with its o... by devnullbyte on Thursday May 23, 2019 @05:00AM (#19989820)

I disagree, they were right to use the same namespace and its questionable how you conflate that to stealing. If something is abandoned, how can you steal it? The project was dead, PR's and issues were ignored and the lack of Python 3 support was a huge issue (which the developer pathetically tried to shut down discussion over by releasing a python 3 port just hours before closing the project).

Changing the name space would have been problematic, as so many people use automation tools now to install package dependencies, rather than break their work because someone has zero intention of maintaining a project, they did the right thing and used the same namespace.

Had this been a case of RH disagreed with the developers direction or any factor around an active project, it would have been a shitty move, but considering the developer ignored any offers to help and let the project to fall into a stale un-maintained state, I don't see any grounds for him to throw his rattle out of the pram and blame RH here.

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Re:Dstat project ended due to RedHat replacing it with its o... by dagwieers on Thursday May 23, 2019 @06:42AM (#19990421)

Nobody stepped up to maintain the project, not even Red Hat. Some people have offered help, and I have send out a few GitHub invitations to people that offered, but no takers.

I assume people offering to help only wanted to see their own contributions merged.

I shouldn't be surprised people here take positions while not having been involved in the project or know the whole history.

In my opinion, stopping the project was the only sensible thing to do at this point. Red Hat replacing the tool with one of their own (which I wholeheartedly disagree with for various reasons) created a dead-end. It's the final blow to a dying project.

Wrt. Python 3 support, I simply did it because it was so easy to do, not because I thought this would be a game-changer. But hey, please do read into whatever fits your narrative :-)

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