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FOGProject / fogproject

An open source computer cloning & management system
https://fogproject.org
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I guess this really 'cool' project is now dead? #486

Closed TheBigBear closed 2 years ago

TheBigBear commented 2 years ago

Looking at the activity here and the age of the last release and all, I guess this has run its course and has been abandoned? Or is it still used and serving it's purpose without needing new releases?

Yarli commented 2 years ago

No its still very active. A lot of people here have recently been working on a new beta release too. if you check the closed pull requests youll see a lot of activity back in may which is when a lot of the development work was going on.

Quazz commented 2 years ago

Most work is done on the dev branch, but people can get quite busy and obviously free projects end up on the backburner.

TheBigBear commented 2 years ago

@Quazz and @Yarli, ok, thanks, I stand corrected. So is the dev branch quite useable and somewhat stable to use day to day then?

Yarli commented 2 years ago

@Quazz and @Yarli, ok, thanks, I stand corrected. So is the dev branch quite useable and somewhat stable to use day to day then?

I would try to avoid using the dev branch for production and wait for an official stable release. Going by the work being done by the people here, I would say one is imminent but I could not tell you when.

The developers will be constantly working on and submitting to the dev branch therefore there could be issues within it until they are fully tested. I run 2 environments at work, my production one and a sandbox one with 1 VM which I target for imaging etc. I only use the dev branch on the sandbox one only.

Of course you are welcome to use the dev branch, test it and report back any issues that you may run into but I would advise not using it as a replacement for your current stable version.

Sebastian-Roth commented 2 years ago

@TheBigBear Open source projects can only be alive with people working on it as well as using it. Many people use or wanna use FOG but hardly any one takes on the development. You are most welcome to join the forces.

By the way, a fair amount of people use dev-branch - currently all version numbers in the form of 1.5.9.X - see https://fog-external-reporting-results.fogproject.us/