[retzkek]

> they've underestimated the amount of work required to package and distribute a product as complex as Elasticsearch

The bulk of the work thus far has been to strip out the non-OSS components ("X-pack") and the many references to it, nothing to do with packaging, distributing, or even maintaining and developing features.

https://discuss.opendistrocommunity.dev/t/preparing-opensear...

[zo1]

I for one will be happy when those are taken out. So many headaches trying to get bloated Kibana to start as a docker container before realizing that some random x-pack-disable flag needs to be set for it to start without a random error.