Loic, Don,
From an Inktank perspective, we're keen to
see a wide variety of ecosystem tools built around Ceph, especially from
developers outside of Inktank. We welcome open source or other
commercial
tools that people want to build and if a more compelling or popular
community tool comes along, we'd definitely look to have our engineers
work on it and potentially package it up for our customers either as a
complement or alternative to Calamari. The more diverse innovation we
have in the Ceph community, the better for everyone. We may very well open source Calamari in the medium term but right now there are some very specific things that our customers and partners want us to do with the product, which don't lend themselves well to an open source project. The most important aspect here is that we are absolutely committed to ensuring every piece of storage functionality we develop sits in Ceph and that the tools just provide a specific experience, not a different set of capabilities.
Neil
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Don Talton (dotalton) <dotalton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I actually started a django app (no code pushed yet) for this purpose. I guessed that Inktank might come out with a commercial offering and thought a FOSS dashboard would be a good thing for the community too.
https://github.com/dontalton/kraken
I'd much rather contribute to a Inktank-backed dashboard if it were FOSS, than start a new project.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ceph-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ceph-users-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Loic Dachary
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 10:29 AM
> To: Patrick McGarry; ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Ceph Devel
> Subject: Re: Inktank Ceph Enterprise Launch
>
> Hi Patrick,
>
> I wish Inktank was able to base its strategy and income on Free Software.
> Like RedHat does, for instance. In addition, as long as Inktank employs the
> majority of Ceph developers, publishing Calamari as a proprietary software is
> a conflict of interest. Should someone from the community bootstrap a Free
> Software alternative to Calamari, it will compete with it. And should Inktank
> employees participate in the development of this alternative, it would be
> against the best interest of Inktank. If that were not true, there would be no
> reason to publish Calamari as proprietary software in the first place.
>
> Please reconsider your decision to publish Calamari as a proprietary software.
>
> Now is probably the right time to call for the creation of a Ceph foundation.
>
> Cheers
>
> On 30/10/2013 18:01, Patrick McGarry wrote:
> > Salutations Ceph-ers,
> >
> > As many of you have noticed, Inktank has taken the wraps off the
> > latest and greatest magic for enterprise customers. Wanted to share a
> > few thoughts from a community perspective on Ceph.com and answer any
> > questions/concerns folks might have.
> >
> > http://ceph.com/community/new-inktank-ceph-enterprise-builds-on-
> what-m
> > akes-ceph-great/
> >
> > Just to reiterate, there will be no changes/limitations to Ceph. All
> > Inktank contributions to Ceph will continue to be open source and
> > useable. If you have any questions feel free to direct them my way.
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Patrick McGarry
> > Director, Community || Inktank
> > http://ceph.com || http://inktank.com @scuttlemonkey || @ceph ||
> > @inktank
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