Active Development?

[warllo54]

I noticed it's been awhile since a new version was released. I was wondering if this project is still active and if new features will be added?

[saulhuerta]

Well, there are people active and trying to help to others.

I think the project is alive.

Regards

[eBeagle]

Unfortunately there has been no new version for over 1 year. The last version 2.5 was released in April 2017.

Without further development, as the distros get updated it will be just a matter of time before Kimchi stop working, as it is already happening with Ubuntu.

I believe most of the active developers in this project were from IBM and they probably have other priorities or left the company. It's a shame. It's a great project with a lot of potential and filling a gap in the market. There isn't many lightweight web GUI's for KVM.

It would be good to hear an update from the developers. Maybe @alinefm can give us some news?

At the moment I'm testing XCP-ng as an alternative to Kimchi/KVM. It's in active development and seems more mature than Kimchi.

[marclaporte]

The WikiSuite project is actively using: http://wikisuite.org/Kimchi

How to install: http://wikisuite.org/How-to-install-Kimchi-on-ClearOS

Our source: http://wikisuite.org/Source-Code#Kimchi

We have one pull request here:
#1257

And work started on Bootstrap 4:
#1255

Here are our development priorities:
http://wikisuite.org/Kimchi-and-KVM-development

We upstream everything: http://wikisuite.org/FAQ#Is_WikiSuite_just_a_list_of_software_

If you'd like to get involved in Kimchi, please contact me (my email is easy to find)

Marc

[alinefm]

Hello everyone!

I know there has been a long time without a new Kimchi release. That happened because IBM stopped sponsoring Kimchi at the beginning of 2017 and after that, I started a new job and moved to a new country. I needed some time to reorganize myself and get proper attention back to Kimchi. Sorry about that.

But, I will do all I can to keep the project and the community alive. I've just accepted some PRs (and others need to be rebased in order to get accepted) and I am working on make Wok and Kimchi python3 compatible and allow Kimchi to connect to a external libvirt URL rather than the one in which Kimchi is installed. These will be the main features of next Kimchi release.

[saulhuerta]

Thanks Aline! Regards

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[eBeagle]

Hi Aline,

That's great news! Welcome back. Hope you are settle on your new life.

I hope once you kick start the development process we can get more people involved in the project whatever way they can.

Hello everyone!

I know there has been a long time without a new Kimchi release. That happened because IBM stopped sponsoring Kimchi at the beginning of 2017 and after that, I started a new job and moved to a new country. I needed some time to reorganize myself and get proper attention back to Kimchi. Sorry about that.

But, I will do all I can to keep the project and the community alive. I've just accepted some PRs (and others need to be rebased in order to get accepted) and I am working on make Wok and Kimchi python3 compatible and allow Kimchi to connect to a external libvirt URL rather than the one in which Kimchi is installed. These will be the main features of next Kimchi release.

[eBeagle]

Please see comment from @alinefm at #1278 (comment)

[alinefm]

New Wok and Kimchi releases are out!

Join Slack if you want too: https://bit.ly/2MZpqNw