An Unsupportable Path

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Back in December I wrote about how we, the community behind the open source project called Puppet, were being forced into forking the project. In the time since then, OpenVox was born and has been diligently chugging along creating, among other things, builds based off of the last truly open versions of Puppet 7 & 8. We have also been trying to work with Perforce to ensure OpenVox remains compatible with Puppet Core and Puppet Enterprise. We’ve given them extensive feedback both in writing and via Zoom meetings on the EULA that is attached to Puppet Core to try to make it workable for the community, but they will not make the necessary changes so that it is tenable for Vox Pupuli to test our modules against Puppet Core. Additionally, they are steadfast in their commitment to keep Facter as a private repository going forward. Facter is a critical, load-bearing part of the Puppet technology stack. If they make private changes that we don’t anticipate or know to test for, it risks breaking the entire ecosystem. Similar to their promises about OSP, they said they’ll push changes back into the public repo and take PRs, but given that they have done this zero times in the last 7 months on the puppet repo, this does not seem likely.

Voxpupuli on The Comfy Seat

An Unsupportable Path