Two Years of Valkey. Un'analisi dell'attività git di Redis e il suo fork Valkey negli ultimi due anni. In breve, Valkey, se la cava meglio del previsto, con elevata attività nelle repository in buona parte grazie al contributo di Amazon, Tencent, Ericsson e altre grandi aziende:
Qua il contesto:
Two years ago last month, a group of former contributors to the Redis project announced their intention to collaborate instead on a competitive fork. Triggered by the decision to shift Redis away from the permissive open source BSD license to source available alternatives – the Redis Source Available License (RSALv2) and Server Side Public License (SSPLv1) – the new fork, Valkey, attracted attention without recent precedent. A lot has happened since, including the return to the project of its original author and the decision by Redis a little over a year after the relicensing to return to an open source license, albeit the copyleft AGPL rather than the more permissive, original BSD. Given the two year anniversary, it’s worth taking stock of the two projects via their commit metrics. This is only one facet of the project’s health, obviously, and does not reflect usage, but as forks typically enter a decline phase shortly after their inception, comparing the two projects contributions should be a useful exercise.