[Libvirt-announce] Happy Birthday Libvirt

Hello everybody, as the first commits were done on Nov 2 2005, libvirt is more or less ten years old. This has been quite a bit of a journey, but a very successful one in my opinion, the initial goal was to provide a long term stable API for virtualization in the Red Hat ecosystem, and I'm very happy to see the goal has been reached, and we went way beyond that. In the end I think libvirt helped avoid the "balkanization" which is classic in highly competitive domains where you end up with one vertical set of tools per vendor. I also think that libvirt played a key role to keep free and open source software in the main virtualization offerings and even more so for cloud management systems. So it's time to celebrate, there is obviously lot to be done still on libvirt (as the steady stream of patches show !), but I would like to thank everybody who has contributed to the project so far, with a special mention to Dan Berrange who has been leading the effort technically for most of that time. I would also say that I have been very pelased with how the project has been working in that decade, the community is technical but friendly, and it's my hope libvirt, the project as well as the code, will remain as successful for the next decade ! So Thank You everybody, for making this project and community successful ! Enjoy that very special day :-) Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Open Source and Standards, Red Hat veillard(a)redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/