Christian Brauner 🦊🐺Jul 5, 2023

As of yesterday, the #LXD project is no longer part of the Linux Containers project but can now instead be found directly under Canonical's control.

Please read our official statement on:
https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd

I personally consider Canonical's move to be a hostile act and as far as I'm concerned the decision was unilateral. It may be legally sound but it leaves a very bad taste behind.

I've been involved with this project independent of what company I moved to. To see this happening is sad.

Linux Containers - LXD - Has been moved to Canonical

Tristram LettJul 27, 2023
Show threadChristian Brauner 🦊🐺

Apparently I'm not a maintainer of #LXD anymore and neither is @stgraber. So it seems from now on it's Canonical employees only.

I'd like to point out that before Canonical moved LXD into github.com/canonical/lxd maintainership was completely independent of the company. If you went to work somewhere else you still were a maintainer. As it should be with any well-functioning OSS project.

Jul 26, 2023 at 4:05pmWeb
Show threadmenschenfreundJul 26, 2023

@brauner
That hits hard! I noticed the links into the documentation had stopped working but I was in a hurry and did not read the statement.

I thought you were all employed at Canonical anyway, but apparently this was a misconception.

LXD is one of my favourite tools - I am worried what will happen 😢
@stgraber

Show threadSteven ReedJul 26, 2023
@brauner
@stgraber
Oh FFS. Is it worth a fork or does it make more sense to see what direction it gets taken in?
Show threadcrystallinefire ⬡Jul 28, 2023
@srtcd424 @brauner @stgraber with a move this hostile it seems pretty clear a fork is necesarry :/
Show thread☃️karolherbst☃️Jul 26, 2023
@brauner @stgraber companies couping maintainers out is absolutely not okay for any project, the heck they were thinking.
Show threadWill FarringtonJul 26, 2023
@brauner @stgraber yikes!
Show threadChris GlassJul 26, 2023
@brauner @stgraber this is so sad 😢 LXD is an awesome project and deserves better than this!
Show threadAaron KulbeJul 26, 2023
@brauner @stgraber That means they’re gonna 🤬 it up and do something like RH has.
Show threadLaPingvino 🟙 Jul 26, 2023
@brauner @stgraber sorry I say this, but Google generally does this better...
Show threadRaj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸)Jul 27, 2023
@brauner @stgraber That sucks.
Show threadFabrizio P. 🐧Jul 27, 2023

@brauner @stgraber

> So it seems from now on it's Canonical employees only.

Here it says this in the CONTRIBUTING.md file: https://github.com/canonical/lxd/blob/0c2f4271a6326a2a24bc57b50abe0456ae94e7f1/CONTRIBUTING.md#license-and-copyright

> The author of a change remains the copyright holder of their code (no copyright assignment).

You can probably fork the project and change its name (to avoid copyright issues)... I don't know if the benefits are more than its cost, though...

lxd/CONTRIBUTING.md at 0c2f4271a6326a2a24bc57b50abe0456ae94e7f1 · canonical/lxd

Powerful system container and virtual machine manager - canonical/lxd

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Show threadKyle FazzariJul 28, 2023
@brauner @stgraber this doesn't seem terribly unusual to me. When I left teams _within_ Canonical my maintainership of old projects was revoked. It seemed like reasonable opsec. When you're paid to work on something it seems that the assumption is when you're paid to work on something else you will no longer be contributing. Of course that's not always accurate, but it seems like a reasonable position to take.
Show threaduwu1baJul 28, 2023
@brauner @stgraber damn I liked LXD. :(
Show threadJason Bowen 🇺🇦Jul 28, 2023
@brauner @stgraber Right on the heels of Red Hat setting a torch to any remaining community good will they may have had and folks have been looking to Canonical/Ubuntu.
Show threadjstm@sos:~$ Aug 6, 2023
@brauner @stgraber Why am I not surprised of this?
Show threadjstm@sos:~$ Aug 6, 2023
@thelinuxEXP Can you include this in the next news episode?
Show threadNick @ The Linux ExperimentAug 6, 2023
@jeremystartm It was in a previous one, or at least in the podcast!
Show threadjstm@sos:~$ Aug 6, 2023
@thelinuxEXP Oh. Probably missed that. Thanks anyway!
Show thread🇨🇦 Dianne SAug 7, 2023

@brauner @stgraber

Base on what interactions I have had with Canonical management, I am not surprised in the least that they'd pull such a hostile and alienating move. Luckily, given history, the Incus fork will thrive and Canonical's LXD will probably wither.