November 2023 - openSUSE Ruby - openSUSE Mailing Lists

The great rubygem cleanup of 2023/2024
by Dan Čermák 17 Nov '23

17 Nov '23

Dear list, as indicated by $subject, I intend to start cleaning up our rubygem rpm packages. The development project devel:languages:ruby:extensions grew over the past decade into a huge mess with far too many outdated, no longer building, uninstallable and downright broken rpms. This causes a lot of strain on OBS as it rebuilds many unusable packages and for us to keep packages building for questionable benefit. We (=the ruby team, at this point that is darix and myself) cannot maintain the current state anymore. Therefore I plan to execute the following two phase plan. Phase I - December 2023 ----------------------- Delete all packages from d:l:r:e that are not linked into another project and that do not have a maintainer set (the project wide maintainer does not count). If you depend on a gem that is in d:l:r:e *only* and *not* in Factory, please take over maintenance of it and consider sending it to Factory. Phase II - January 2024 ----------------------- We will start deleting leaf packages in Factory that originate in d:l:r:e and have no package maintainer set. If you are depending on a rubygem being available as an rpm, then please take over maintenance for it. Otherwise there is a certain risk that it will be gone from Tumbleweed. Thank you for your understanding, Dan -- Dan Čermák <dcermak(a)suse.com> Software Engineer Development tools SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Frankenstr. 146 90461 Nürnberg Germany www.suse.com Geschäftsführer: Ivo Totev, Andrew McDonald, Werner Knoblich (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)

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Re: Plan to delete vagrant & Virtualization:vagrant by the end of November
by Dan Čermák 15 Nov '23

15 Nov '23

Hi Dominique, Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar(a)opensuse.org> writes: > On Fri, 2023-11-03 at 11:07 +0100, Dan Čermák via openSUSE Factory > wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> due to Hashicorp changing the license of vagrant to the BUSL, we can >> no >> longer update vagrant in openSUSE. I don't have the cycles to >> maintain >> vagrant myself indefinitely and plan to send a delete request at the >> end >> of November to Factory. Once that goes in, I also plan to remove the >> Virtualization:vagrant project to reduce the number of rubygems we >> have >> in openSUSE. >> >> If you don't like this plan and decide to scream at me, please scream >> an >> actionable plan that involves you :-) > > > I like thet plan - BUT please first disarm the openQA tests for > vagrant. If we're already planning on dropping it, we should stop > testing it at least beforehand. This actually brings up another issue, we use vagrant to test our opensuse vagrant boxes. But without vagrant in the distro, we'll have a hard time testing the boxes. The only simple way that I see is to install vagrant from the upstream provided binary: https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/install?product_intent=vagrant Cheers, Dan -- Dan Čermák <dcermak(a)suse.com> Software Engineer Development tools SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Frankenstr. 146 90461 Nürnberg Germany www.suse.com Geschäftsführer: Ivo Totev, Andrew McDonald, Werner Knoblich (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)

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Plan to delete vagrant & Virtualization:vagrant by the end of November
by Dan Čermák 03 Nov '23

03 Nov '23

Dear all, due to Hashicorp changing the license of vagrant to the BUSL, we can no longer update vagrant in openSUSE. I don't have the cycles to maintain vagrant myself indefinitely and plan to send a delete request at the end of November to Factory. Once that goes in, I also plan to remove the Virtualization:vagrant project to reduce the number of rubygems we have in openSUSE. If you don't like this plan and decide to scream at me, please scream an actionable plan that involves you :-) Cheers, Dan -- Dan Čermák <dcermak(a)suse.com> Software Engineer Development tools SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Frankenstr. 146 90461 Nürnberg Germany www.suse.com Geschäftsführer: Ivo Totev, Andrew McDonald, Werner Knoblich (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)

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