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

[Rhian Resnick]

I will need a comment on this also.

Rhian Resnick
Director of Research Computing
Office of Information Technology
Florida Atlantic University
561.297.2647



From: midPoint <midpoint-bounces at lists.evolveum.com> on behalf of Timo Klenk via midPoint <midpoint at lists.evolveum.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 at 9:45 AM
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Cc: Timo Klenk <klenk at synyx.de>
Subject: [midPoint] Midpoint 4.8.1: Disabled Clustering for non-subscribers


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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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