Re: [libvirt] [PATCH libvirt-cim 1/2] maint: Rename autoconfiscate.sh to autogen.sh
On 09/22/2017 12:47 PM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
On Fri, 2017-09-22 at 17:17 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> libvirt-cim has it's own mailing list (libvirt-cim(a)redhat.com) and
>> achives: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-cim/index.html.
>>
>> The last email there (april 2015) and last patch (aug 2014) - I venture
>> to say perhaps the "doesn't anyone really care" starts to factor
in.
>> Then of course, is there a way (need/desire) to kill it completely?
>
> IBM was the only company that ever cared about CIM for virtualization.
> Everyone else wanted an API that was easy to use instead ;-P Even IBM
> has lost interest now, so it is mostly a historical curiosity at this
> point. I wouldn't delete it, but also wouldn't spend alot of time in
> it. If someone does have a desire to update the code in any way, go
> at it and we can review it in the normal manner - no point waiting for
> the original maintainers to review IMHO.
I'm pretty sure John was referring to the mailing list, not the
project itself :)
I had forgotten about Daniel's last email on about libvirt-cim on
libvir-list...
By killing it - I was thinking more along the lines of removing it from
our CI infrastructure and just letting the repo sit silently without
updates, but that ship sailed today. We could still remove it from the
CI mix as if something breaks - there's not going to be anyone that
really wants to fix it. There's also something called cimtest that
should have the same luxurious retirement.
No one seems to care any more and it's woefully behind at this point.
The main reason I was the stuckee was that I came from HP and agreed
that I knew how to spell CIM because HP had a passing interesting in CIM
along with IBM.
John