Tom Hockin, Kubernetes co-founder (source):
“The people who currently work on ingress-nginx do so FOR FREE. They have been doing it largely because they feel a sense of duty. They do not need to be berated. In the 2 years this has been a topic, almost nobody has stepped up to help, and there are no new maintainers in the pipeline. Shuttering this project is necessary, and IMO, a better result than pretending it is healthy when it is not.”
Benjamin Elder, Kubernetes Steering Committee (source):
“People need to understand, lots of contributors are willing to do maintenance work, but it simply isn't free, and only doing maintenance generally isn't sustainable. We all have bills to pay and careers to pursue and it's very difficult to succeed doing nothing but maintenance because everyone wants that work for free.”
William Morgan, CEO @ Buoyant (source):
“The actual problem in the CNCF community is instead one of expectations: that all these open source projects I use (on my company’s dime) to build my systems (that allow my company to make money) should be free. And always up to date. And should fix my bugs. And add new features. And somehow this should all just happen magically.”
Kat Cosgrove, Kubernetes Steering Committee (source):
“The ingress-nginx deprecation is the inevitable result of the fundamentally broken way for-profit companies consume open source software, not a reflection on the state of the CNCF or Kubernetes. It had to happen.”