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22nd March 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s official! BeeGFS has packed its bags (ahem, pollen baskets) and moved to GitHub. This transition marks a pivotal moment for our development team, enabling us to boost our efficiency and increase collaboration with our community. In this post, we\u2019ll address some of the common questions anticipated with this change.<\/p>\n

What does this mean for you?<\/h2>\n

The most immediate change is if you\u2019ve bookmarked or checked out the BeeGFS source, you\u2019ll want to update your bookmarks and change your git remotes to the new\u00a0GitHub repository<\/a>. For downloading pre-built packages, you will continue accessing our package repositories without any changes from our\u00a0Download page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why did we choose GitHub?<\/h2>\n

Our decision to move to GitHub was motivated by two goals:<\/p>\n

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  1. Simplifying Development: We\u2019ve been interested for some time in moving to a hosted solution so our team had one less mission-critical tool to maintain.\u00a0Developer experience<\/a>\u00a0is also really important to us, so we didn\u2019t want a hodgepodge of tools, we needed a one-stop-shop to organize, communicate, and get stuff done. After assembling our requirements and listening to the team, GitHub quickly became the front-runner with robust git-based source control, CI\/CD, issue tracking, advanced project management, wikis, discussion boards, and more.<\/li>\n
  2. Enhancing Community Engagement: As the BeeGFS community continues to grow, we want to make it easier to organize feedback and, in the future, accept contributions. Creating accounts in self-hosted source control for anyone and everyone in the community is just not practical. Who wants to remember one more account anyway? So instead of trying to bring more developers to where BeeGFS is, we thought it would be more practical to bring BeeGFS to where developers are already accustomed to finding and collaborating on code. GitHub was again the clear winner here (with over\u00a0100 million developers<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Wait, does this mean BeeGFS is 100% open source now?<\/h2>\n

    Well, the short answer is no, but given our move to GitHub, a platform often synonymous with open-source projects, you might wonder if BeeGFS is now open source. While we\u2019re committed to continuing to make the BeeGFS source code freely available for anyone, and even allowing modifications for private use, BeeGFS still cannot be redistributed in modified or unmodified form without prior written consent (just talk to us!). This differs from most common definitions of open-source software and is why we will continue to refer to BeeGFS as \u201cavailable source\u201d. For more details see the\u00a0BeeGFS End User License Agreement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    The development of BeeGFS is supported by our enterprise edition, which includes additional features and support. Both our community and paid enterprise editions share a source tree which receives updates simultaneously. We don\u2019t delay releasing fixes and enhancements in the community edition. However since they are part of the same source tree they fall under the same license, and restricting use of certain features is incompatible with every open source license we know of. Instead, our philosophy aims to reflect the open-source spirit by offering our community edition with no restrictions on number of users, file system size, or usage duration.<\/p>\n

    In practice, this model has worked well over the past decade. We know file systems are a critical part of your infrastructure, and this approach has allowed us to tightly control our source code ensuring it is safe from supply chain attacks, while allowing contributions that are rigorously vetted, tested, and will be maintained going forward. The result is a trusted and rock solid file system widely used behind the\u00a0world\u2019s largest AI and HPC workloads<\/a>. Looking forward, it is imperative that any future changes to our licensing model ensure a sustainable future for ongoing BeeGFS development without crippling the community edition.<\/p>\n

    What\u2019s next?<\/h2>\n

    Looking ahead, we aim to expand our engagement with the community, leveraging GitHub as a platform for us to collect and organize feedback while being more transparent about what we\u2019re working on. More on this in the coming months, stay tuned. In the meantime we\u2019d love to hear your thoughts, just drop us a note in the comments!<\/p>\n

    PS: If you\u2019re attending ISC24 in Hamburg we\u2019d love to chat in-person about how we can continue to get more engaged with our community. Sign-up to attend the\u00a0BeeGFS User Group meeting<\/a>\u00a0or drop by the booth #L40!<\/p>\n

    Authors<\/i><\/strong>
    \nJoe McCormick<\/strong>,\u00a0Senior Software Engineer, ThinkParQ<\/em>
    \nPhilipp Falk<\/strong>,\u00a0VP of Engineering, ThinkParQ<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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