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by bratao
1089 days ago
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They've essentially killed Redash, which was one of the best open-source dashboard/data visualization tools. They had promised to keep it open-source and improve upon it (https://web.archive.org/web/20211019150919/https://blog.reda...). However, a year later, their SaaS has been discontinued. The open-source repository is now stagnant, with hundreds of unresolved merge requests. On a positive note, they recently shared the repository with some other open-source maintainers, so there's hope that Redash will be reborn. |
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Yeah, the root of the problem (in my opinion) was that Redash has sooo many Python dependencies (due to supporting so many databases and similar) that it's become a real hairball source code wise to keep them all playing together nicely.
Especially as over time (say) library package FOO has some security vulnerability reported that gets fixed in a new release... but the dependencies of the newer release are too new to work with (say) package BAR. Times that by 50 and it's a real pita.
Simultaneously to that, the Redash team got busy with their work at Databricks (mostly not Redash related). Then the automatic CircleCI checks on PRs started failing (ugh), etc.
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But, as @bratao mentioned above that's all getting worked through now.
Admin and maintainer permissions have been given to a group of dev volunteers / known Redash enthusiasts. CI is working again now (as of last night), and we're currently untangling the dependency hairball.
It's likely to be a few weeks (minimum I guess) before any new official releases are ready, but it will happen. :)