[dagwieers]

It wasn't abandoned, it didn't see any maintenance for 18 months.

I don't get paid for doing this work. Red Hat does. They get paid for offering it to customers that apparently demands that it ships with RHEL8. They have been shipping it with RHEL since RHEL3.

They haven't contributed to it ever in that timespan.

They could have paid me for maintaining it, they could have offered to maintain it for me. (Because it is a lot of work to accept and verify pull requests). I am a freelancer, I have to work for a living I don't have a lot of free time.

Instead, they ripped out the plugin backend, added the PCP backend and now you can't use it as a drop-in tool that can't run PCP. Your synology NAS, WRT router or JeOS platform. Because Red Hat does not care about anything other than RHEL. They are business-oriented. And that's fine.

Is the Open Source ecosystem better off ? I sincerely doubt it. It's being replaced by paid-for engineers with business interests. In the long term it is killing the community.

[kamane]

Thanks Dag alot for the dstat tool, I am using it till this day. As for opensource and community I think it would be reasonable to still have it under different name if you'll consider it after some time and still develop some functionality or curate and merge pull requests.