is a BSL licensed service acceptable for sysadminy use cases?

Harald Sitter sitter at kde.org
Mon Jun 14 11:41:36 BST 2021


+1

On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 9:28 PM Kenny Coyle <kcoyle at kde.org> wrote:
>
> So with the licensing question aside, I realise that there is a desire here to have log (and/or metric) aggregation services available for KDE services.
>
> With Akademy happening in a few weeks, should we discuss this in a BoF? I think there's a lot of scope to look at various platforms that provide very similar features to Sentry.
>
> Thanks,
> Kenny.
>
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 4:21 PM Bhushan Shah <bshah at mykolab.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thursday, 27 May, 2021 12:55:01 AM IST Anna “CyberTailor” wrote:
>> > So you can use old sentry versions, which are open source.
>>
>> If you are referring to old snapshot of old sentry version then I would say it
>> is fairly impossible to use it given using old sentry version would also mean
>> that we need to use older API version and it also means older libraries for
>> client side (for sending data). It is basically a dep hell which is impossible
>> to overcome.
>>
>> With my sysadmin hat on, I would absolutely oppose to having installation of 3
>> year old unmaintained software (and its equally outdated dependencies) that
>> are guranteed to get no upates whatsover on our servers in productions.
>>
>> Regards.


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