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jedi4ever / veewee

Easing the building of vagrant boxes
MIT License
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Is this project still active? :) #1116

Open boldandbusted opened 3 years ago

boldandbusted commented 3 years ago

Howdy. So, first, thank you for Veewee! I really enjoyed using Veewee in the past, and now I have some possibilities for using it again so I looked up the project. However, I see that the last commit was in April of 2018, and a number of PRs have not been integrated. Is there a new fork that's taken over development of Veewee? Cheers! And, again, thank you for the amazing work.

braddeicide commented 3 years ago

Literally every company I do work for now uses the Veewee software design, however a commercial carbon copy called Packer is what everyone knows and uses.

Hashicorp is a commercial company and unlike an OSS repo on github they promoted their product and now no-one seems to know it's just a commercial rewrite of existing OSS software. I do regularly tell them because I feel Veewee/Jedi4ever deserves far more credit :)

As packer is a literal 1:1 clone and has been so widely adopted and supported by Hashicorp, there's just no point working on Veewee now. If it was only similar then both projects could co-exist, but that's not the case.

FunTimeCoding commented 3 years ago

When I offered some support while working more actively with Veewee for a while, I was made a collaborator. Nowadays I'm trying to shift from virtual machines more towards Docker. It's pretty inactive. I think virtual machines still have their place though, so this project still has purpose.

boldandbusted commented 3 years ago

I really, really liked working with VeeWee in the past, and I want to thank you-all for your work. Thank you for the updates here on the status. :) I do wish that more for-profit companies gave back to foundational F/OSS projects, 'small' and 'large'. :(

boldandbusted commented 10 months ago

So, now that Packer is BSL, and love for HashiCorp may be waning... I wonder if that means life for VeeWee yet? :)