On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 1:28 AM, Dan van der Ster <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 11:39 PM, Gregory Farnum <gfarnum@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Jesse Williamson <jwilliamson@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> What are the future plans for libradosstriper? Are we planning on keeping it >>> around, or does the crystal ball forsee a fond farewell? >> >> I've not heard any talk of removing it, and I don't think it adds much >> load to carry on. >> >> Although I also think the CERN guys who were maintaining it said >> they're not making use of it any more, so I don't know if anybody >> feels any dedication to maintaining it either. > > (cc'ing my colleague Giuseppe) > > In fact it is still used at CERN and we're aware of at least one other > user in our HEP community at RAL. Xrootd -- the storage framework we > use heavily in HEP -- has a Ceph module built around libradosstriper. > > As to maintenance, it's true that the original contributor is > currently on a different assignment, so it hasn't seen much dev > activity. Are there any issues we should be aware of that need > following up? I'm not aware of any issues at the time. Just not having an active maintainer does make it susceptible to bitrot; and I'e seen a few queries go by on the lists that I don't think anybody was able to answer. So those are the potential avenues that would prompt a removal, but AFAIK no issues yet. -Greg -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
