MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/27742d469462e1561c776f88ca7a1f26816d69e2

46•hajtom•36m ago

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baq•19m ago

please copy and paste outrage from previous discussions to not waste more time

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45665452

dardeaup•18m ago

Hopefully no one is shocked or surprised.

giancarlostoro•14m ago

I'm both shocked and not surprised. Lots of questions: Are they doing that bad from the outcry? Or are they just keeping a private version and going completely commercial only? If so, how do they bypass the AGPL in doing so, I assume they had contributions under the AGPL.

ecshafer•15m ago

Is this just the open source portion? Minio is now a fully paid product then?

0x073•55s ago

"For enterprise support and actively maintained versions, please see MinIO AIStor."

Probably yes.

johnmaguire•15m ago

Any good alternatives?

pezgrande•12m ago

This one is usually the most recommended: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

mlnj•12m ago

Have heard good things about Garage (https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/).

Am forced to use MinIO for certain products now but will eventually move to better eventually. Garage is high on my list of alternatives.

itodd•11m ago

seaweedfs

xrd•11m ago

I saw this referenced a few days ago. Haven't investigated it at all.

https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

Edit: jeez, three of us all at once...

ecshafer•9m ago

A lot of them actually. Ceph personally I've used. But there's a ton, some open source, some paid. Backblaze has a product Buckets or something. Dell powerscale. Cloudian has one. Nutanix has one.

tiernano•14m ago

Is this not the best thing that could happen? Like now its in maintenance, it can be forked without any potential license change in the future, or any new features that are in that license change... This allows anyone to continue working on this, right? Or did i miss something?

Havoc•14m ago

I thought they were pivoting towards close it and trying to monetize this?

That got backlash so now it’s just getting dropped entirely?

People get to do whatever they want but bit jarring to go from this is worth something people will pay for to maintenance mode in quick succession

theideaofcoffee•13m ago

Oh, no! Anyway... Maybe it's for the best seeing as it's AGPL. I won't go within 39.5 feet of infected software like that, so no loss for me.

bananapub•6m ago

for those looking for a simple and reliable self hosted S3 thing, check out Garage . it's much simpler - no web ui, no fancy RS coding, no VC-backed AI company, just some french nerds making a very solid tool.

fwiw while they do produce Docker containers for it, it's also extremely simple to run without that - it's a single binary and running it with systemd is unsurprisingly simple[1].

0: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

1: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documentation/cookbook/system...

snickell•2m ago

Any efforts to consolidate around a community fork yet?