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Dstat project ended due to RedHat replacing it with its own dstat tool

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Re: Dstat project ended due to RedHat replacing it with its own dstat tool

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Post by astine »

detaro wrote: post #2

redhat announcing their "new dstat": https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/implementing-dstat-performanc...

The claim is that the original is no longer being maintained. Is that true? It changes a lot about what I would think of this move.

Re: Dstat project ended due to RedHat replacing it with its own dstat tool

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Post by nightfly »

astine wrote: post #4
detaro wrote: post #2

redhat announcing their "new dstat": https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/implementing-dstat-performanc...

The claim is that the original is no longer being maintained. Is that true? It changes a lot about what I would think of this move.

The git repo linked here has 6 commits on Jan 16, 2019. And Nov 23, 2016 the last new commits before then.

Re: Dstat project ended due to RedHat replacing it with its own dstat tool

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Post by jkaplowitz »

astine wrote: post #4
detaro wrote: post #2

redhat announcing their "new dstat": https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/implementing-dstat-performanc...

The claim is that the original is no longer being maintained. Is that true? It changes a lot about what I would think of this move.

Even if it isn't being maintained, I wish they had changed the name if they were forking or reimplementing without permission. There's a reason trademark law exists and doesn't require registration if you can prove the situation.

But yeah, it's a lot harder to fight Red Hat (soon IBM!) over that if the project is inactively maintained and there's no registration.

Still, whether legal or not, the name squat is not a good look for Red Hat.

Re: Dstat project ended due to RedHat replacing it with its own dstat tool

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Post by EwanToo »

astine wrote: post #4
detaro wrote: post #2

redhat announcing their "new dstat": https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/implementing-dstat-performanc...

The claim is that the original is no longer being maintained. Is that true? It changes a lot about what I would think of this move.

The issue below has more details, it does look more complex than this post suggests?

https://github.com/dagwieers/dstat/issues/156

Re: Dstat project ended due to RedHat replacing it with its own dstat tool

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Post by rlpb »

jkaplowitz wrote: post #7
astine wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The claim is that the original is no longer being maintained. Is that true? It changes a lot about what I would think of this move.

Even if it isn't being maintained, I wish they had changed the name if they were forking or reimplementing without permission. There's a reason trademark law exists and doesn't require registration if you can prove the situation. But yeah, it's a lot harder to fight Red Hat (soon IBM!) over that if the project is inactively maintained and there's no registration. Still, whether legal or not, the name squat is not a g…

> I wish they had changed the name if they were forking or reimplementing without permission.

Has the name not changed to "pcp", or am I missing something? "pcp dstat" appears to be a command, but that seems like a reasonable abbreviation for "hey pcp, please give me a dstat-like interface".

[Edit] Correction. https://github.com/dagwieers/dstat/issues/156 says the following, so there is a compatibility symlink using the name "dstat". However the project name appears to be "pcp-dstat" or "pcp dstat".

"Since there had been no meaningful work on the old dstat code in years, github PRs were being ignored, community developers requesting access to help were being ignored, and we have customers using it ... we were asked to make this as seamless a transition as possible, provide that compatibility symlink for /usr/bin/dstat to pcp-dstat, and remove the old package from RHEL and Fedora."

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