Can anyone offer the story behind this fork? with as little hyperbole as possible, what does "Canonical’s decision to take LXD away from Linux Containers" mean?
(Given that "we have made the decision to take Incus under the umbrella of Linux Containers and will commit to it the infrastructure which was previously made available to LXD", so is it right that the team had considered re-assigning those resources somewhere else, or was there a time elapsed or something going on where they didn't want to immediately just fork the code)
Obviously, there's always emotions involved in any split like this, but I'm just looking to know why it actually happened (facts) and the practical impact it will have on LXD, especially for other non-Canonical distros. Is this really a SUSE-only fork, or is it for other distros as well?
The link in the parent post is probably the best source, particularly the line:
> While the team behind Linux Containers regrets that decision and will be missing LXD as one of its projects, it does respect Canonical’s decision
That team includes Stéphane Graber who was for years the project lead for LXD, and a highly-visible evangelist for the project, producing videos[1] every couple weeks and answering questions on the forum[2].
He quit Canonical a few days after this announcement[3].
> In addition to Aleksa, the initial set of maintainers for Incus will include Christian Brauner, Serge Hallyn, Stéphane Graber and Tycho Andersen, effectively including the entire team that once created LXD.
> Obviously, there's always emotions involved in any split like this, but I'm just looking to know why it actually happened (facts) and the practical impact it will have on LXD, especially for other non-Canonical distros. Is this really a SUSE-only fork, or is it for other distros as well?
The maintainer works at SUSE but this is not a SUSE project.
(Given that "we have made the decision to take Incus under the umbrella of Linux Containers and will commit to it the infrastructure which was previously made available to LXD", so is it right that the team had considered re-assigning those resources somewhere else, or was there a time elapsed or something going on where they didn't want to immediately just fork the code)
Obviously, there's always emotions involved in any split like this, but I'm just looking to know why it actually happened (facts) and the practical impact it will have on LXD, especially for other non-Canonical distros. Is this really a SUSE-only fork, or is it for other distros as well?
Update: found this, which seems to help explain some of the backstory: https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/