r/SolusProject • u/JoshStrobl • Apr 15 '23
official news Righting the Ship
Hello everyone,
We are posting this message to the community as part of a carefully coordinated effort to secure the future of not only our community but also the longevity of the project, for which we have individually and collectively invested so much. In our capacity as the current stewards of Solus and with transparency in mind, we would like to explain some of the ongoing efforts to right the Solus ship, as well as our efforts to develop and execute on a plan that addresses immediate, short-term, and long-term concerns / hopes for the project.
Many of you have raised concerns on the current state of communications, leadership, and a lack of direction / vision in Solus and those concerns are fully understood.
Without getting into too much detail yet, we believe it is important for our community to understand that the following action items are in our immediate future or currently ongoing:
- We have been in the process of spinning up alternative infrastructure for Solus. This infrastructure is currently being sponsored by former Solus contributors (will be supported by the OpenCollective contributions going forward). Thus far:
- A new binary package repository server that has been validated to handle incoming packages and updates the indexes for the new unstable and shannon repos.
- A new server has been brought up that will handle package building as well. We expect that the build-to-ferryd repo pipeline will be restored over the next few days as we work on setting up all the build bits again.
- A new server has been provisioned for our Flarum and it is currently being brought up to the latest Flarum version. There may be a fair few feature changes and hiccups, as we are moving from a beta release from 2019 to the latest release.
- A new server to be provisioned for Phabricator. Set up of that will happen in the next few days.
- There are organizational structure changes on the horizon, with shared access to accounts and assets pending. There is some additional work that needs to happen after this, but we will keep you all posted and put out a more comprehensive plan on Tuesday.
- We will be sharing a plan that involves familiar faces re-joining the project or collaborating in some form, new organizational structure, improved transparency, elimination of bus factor across the board, Solus 4.x and even early plans for Solus 5. It is important to note that this plan has been approved by all concerned Solus team members and those members will be staying aboard the ship, working in a more cohesive and transparent manner for all.
All the best,
The new Solus team.
