last week I started installing and using Freezer. Unfortunately I had many problems. - The documentation is not maintained and complete - The Freezer-web-UI integration/plugin in Horizon does not work properly - There are still many bugs. Many open bugs older than 7 years - I don't see any changes in the release notes (bug fixes, new features, ...). The latest release notes are from Ussuri and Pike. (Could also be due to poor documentation).
I can't say what my experience will be with the contribution to Freezer, as I haven't done it yet. But I'd like to report on the bugs I've encountered while using/installing Freezer. I have fixed some old bugs now and will try to commit them later. Hopefully I won't face any problems with the ci-jobs as Sam Su mentioned.
I just want to ensure that my time investigating Freezer is not wasted and that the project is still alive and being maintained.
Would some one help this project back to routine maintenance?
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Zakhar Kirpichenko wrote: Sam Su (苏正伟) wrote:
Hi，folks， Recently I have tested freezer, and it still works. I want to submit some patches which would make Freezer more easy-to-use, but I found the ci-jobs not fixed for long time. I think the most important thing is to solve the ci-jobs firstly. Then there would be new commits. Would some one help this project back to routine maintenance?
Thank you, Jay. I haven't tried Freezer lately, but we tried it a couple of years ago in our Wallaby lab and couldn't get the backend to work properly, the UI code also had some issues. Our attempts to get in touch with the devs were unsuccessful, we've never heard back. We haven't touched Freezer since then, thus I'd like to correct my statement to "after trying it and attempting to get in touch with its devs, my team assumed that Freezer was abandoned". I'd be glad to find out that it's alive, but don't have high hopes. /Z On Tue, 24 Oct 2023 at 19:14, Jay Faulkner jay@gr-oss.io wrote:
Hey Zakhar & Roby, As far as governance is concerned, Freezer still exists. But I see in git, no commits since the last 8 months. Based on your comment, do you have experience that reflects it's not functional? If it truly is abandoned, we should ensure the governance reflects that -- but right now we have the impression it should work, and was included in the bobcat release: https://releases.openstack.org/bobcat/index.html#bobcat-freezer. Thanks, Jay Faulkner OpenStack TC Chair On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 2:07 AM Zakhar Kirpichenko zakhar@gmail.com wrote: It's been an abandonware for at least a couple of years. Not sure about alternatives. /Z On Tue, 24 Oct 2023 at 11:35, pi3.14@tuta.io wrote: Hi folks, is Freezer still supported? I don't see any real development going on with it. Is it recommended to use in a production Cloud environment? Are there other free and open source alternatives to Freezer? Thanks Roby