[midPoint] Midpoint 4.8.1: Disabled Clustering for non-subscribers

[Timo Klenk]

Hey there,

First of all, I apologize if my question ought to be posted elsewhere. 
In that case please tell me where.

I just saw that Midpoint 4.8.1 was released 🎉
However, reading the changelog left me a bit confused about why the 
additional check to detect if a user is running in a production-like 
environment was added and why the decision was made to disable 
clustering in instances without a subscription?
Adding this just in case: This mail is not supposed to be a rant about 
the change being bad or anything, I just want to understand the reasons 
behind it and what to expect in the future.

So my questions:

 1. Is there a specific reason why these changes were made? I can
    understand that the generic repos were disabled since they are
    supposed to be deprecated, but why was clustering disabled in a
    non-subscribed instance?
 2. I queried the blog, the wiki and the jira tickets but apart from the
    release notes and the commit log, I could not find any further
    information on that change, especially not on the wiki pages that
    explain how to set up a HA instance of MidPoint. Apart from asking
    in this mailing list, is there a better place?
 3. Why was that change done inside a Maintenance release rather than a
    minor/major release? This change is not backwards compatible for
    non-subscribed instances.
 4. Are there going to be more features that are disabled inside a
    non-subscribed instance? Will there be something a "core" midpoint
    that can be run in production even without a subscription and
    additional features that require a subscription?
    Will there be an extra subscription model for people that want to
    use these features but don't want/need a support subscription?
    If so, does this align well with the principles outlined in the wiki
    Page on Openness and the page explaining the Dual Licensing?
    https://docs.evolveum.com/midpoint/introduction/openness/
    https://docs.evolveum.com/community/dual-licensing/

Best regards and stay awesome,
Timo
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