Chainguard is adding 10 new open source projects to EmeritOSS, its program for supporting mature open source projects that don’t require continuous upkeep or whose maintainers need to step away.
“EmeritOSS exists for the projects that have earned their stripes. They’ve shipped, scaled, and supported real systems, and while their maintainers may be ready to step back, the software itself still has plenty of life left. EmeritOSS provides continuity-focused stewardship for mature projects by maintaining public, non-competitive forks, addressing security issues through dependency updates and releases, and clearly documenting support boundaries,” Chainguard wrote in a blog post.
EmeritOSS first launched in December with three starting projects: Kaniko, Kubeapps, and ingress-nginx.
The 10 new projects that are being added span object storage, monitoring, data processing, backup integrations, and observability. They include:
- MinIO
- Prometheus PushProx
- Cassandra Exporter
- Prometheus JSON Exporter
- Prometheus Exporter for RabbitMQ
- Prometheus Exporter for Python Redis Queue
- logstash-filter-range
- PgCat
- Velero plugin for OpenStack
- k8s-node-collector
These projects will be freely available on GitHub in source form only, and for organizations that need a continuously maintained container image of APK, Chainguard offers a commercial distribution.
Chainguard is also accepting proposals for new EmeritOSS projects here.
