[opensource-wg] NetBox

Hi,

> I think this is a huge step back but have the same feeling that
> arguing with the maintainer(s) isn't really fruitful most of the time :(

I was one of the maintainers for a bit, but even I have given up :(

I'm not even trying to solve 
https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox/issues/5469 anymore.

>> I was wondering: how do other NetBox users deal with this? Maintain
>> your own fork (there seem to be MANY forks on GitHub), stick with a
>> version that works, ...?
> For now I'm sticking with 2.9.x but eventually there needs to be a
> solution which is save to update.

Same for me.

>> I know there are people already looking to do a LibreNMS-style fork of
>> NetBox and continue development under more community-friendly
>> management. Would people be interested in something like that? Because
>> that's definitely the style that I want to contribute to :)
> I'm thinking of forking netbox for a while not as I have to work around for
> a number of things which could IMHO easily be added natively.  From my point
> of view the most pressing things are
>   * custom fields on interfaces (which are "not required" as the
>     maintainers think) and where I work around by having an ifaces dict
>     in config contexts (primary for GRE tunnels)
>   * Modelling Wifi PTP connections (which is accepted, see #3979)
>   * more API stability so you don't have to update your consumer
>     systems every other minor release (a bit exaggerating, but not much)
>   * Support for bridges (I would implement that like LAGs)
>
> As I have quite a bit on my plate as it is I'm not too keen on doing
> all that but if there were a mostly compatible fork with the mentioned
> spirit I'd be up for adding stuff like the briding as it would save me
> quite a lot of pain by working around it by tags/config contexts.

Thanks!

I know there is a company that is willing to support a NetBox fork with 
money and/or time, but I'll leave it up to them to announce their plans.

> Thanks for you effors on the CWDM/DWDM/cabling stuff, I followed that
> a bit in the issues; it's very helpful and very much appreaciated <3

Thanks! Just so annoying that Jeremy breaks it with every thing he does. 
I almost feel like he does it intentionally because it doesn't fit in 
his world view :/

Cheers,
Sander