OTRS News: Morre a Community Edition :'( Nascem os forks :)
Uma notícia nada alegre 😥 Quase um LUTO, na verdade, para todos os administradores que usufruíam desta ferramenta… Tomei ciência da mesma hoje pela manhã, fazendo minha “tradicional” leitura diária de e-mails, pessoal e corporativo. Ambos tinham uma mensagem cada acerca do assunto. O primeiro veio de um instrutor da Udemy que ministrava um curso sobre OTRS na plataforma. Já o segundo remetente foi uma empresa brasileira que fornece mentoria, suporte, plugins e extras para uma versão gratuita própria, desenvolvida pelo time da casa (um fork do OTRS CE original).
O resumo da ópera é o que segue:
A versão comunitária do OTRS foi “desligada”. Seu ciclo de vida será (alias já está) encerrado/descontinuado. Sem futuros updates ou patches de correção, ele acaba se tornando um sistema inseguro e vulnerável. A continuidade do uso em ambientes de produção não é mais aconselhável, sendo um risco para a rede e possível brecha/alvo de hackers. Portanto, a solução seria migrar para: (a) versão paga, (b) um fork específico, (c) outro sistema equivalente no mercado. Tamanha é essa decisão que o planejamento e execução precisam ser tomados a curto-médio prazo.
Dado o panorama geral, vamos por partes… Aos detalhes e pormenores 😦
DESLIGADA? COMO ASSIM?
Eu disse “desligada” há pouco pois a partir de agora está impossibilitado fazer o download dos pacotes da Community Edition. Isso porque todos os repositórios foram privados ou retirados do ar. Então, a menos que você já tenha feito a instalação e deixado o sistema pronto/rodando, ou salvo localmente os arquivos das versões anteriores (3, 4, 5, 6), ou em último caso, possua um colega que ceda e envie os dele… Não conseguirá instalar nem o OTRS (free) nem qualquer plugin.
MAS POR QUE? E O DELAY DE DOIS ANOS PARA NOVOS RECURSOS NA COMMUNITY ANTERIOR?
É, parece que a promessa foi quebrada não é mesmo? Caso esteja confuso, desorientado e sem contexto nenhum, por favor, PARE, LEIA e RETORNE após a publicação abaixo:
OTRS Plus+: OTRS 8 Trial
https://machinesbecomeservices.com/2021/01/08/otrs-plus-otrs-8-trial/
Recordando bem, nela vimos a notícia de uma revista alemã aonde o CEO da OTRS AG afirma categoricamente…
O QUE A COMUNIDADE ESTÁ FALANDO?
Não há nada melhor do que um fórum para saber o que os usuários pensam ou dizem…
https://forums.otterhub.org/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=41628
Topic/Thread 41628
UM POUCO DE HUMOR E ‘STAR WARS’ PARA ENTENDER MELHOR … haha
https://radiantsystem.com/community/
((OTRS)) Community Edition – what next?
Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace
A long-long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away … … the first sub CreateTicketDB was written.
From an e-mail handler OTRS has evolved into a powerful ITSM solution. For a long time, the system used to be the only free open source solution certified by ITIL.
Due to its features and zero license cost the system won well-deserved popularity all over the world. In 2015, OTRS AG announced the OTRS Business Solution. In fact, it was the same OTRS with a set of commercial add-ons developed by OTRS AG previously. New versions of free OTRS and OTRS Business Solution were released simultaneously.
When OTRS AG renamed OTRS to ((OTRS)) Community Edition in 2018 and OTRS Business Solution became just OTRS, questions and bad sort of feeling had appeared among many people. However, the official statement clearly said — we will transfer all new features to the Community version in a few years. There was even a more certain promise from the CEO of the company Andre Mindermann — in 2 years.
We accepted that with understanding and respect. It was even better for us — our free and commercial Community Edition add-ons would get a longer lifecycle. And we continued our work — we launched a marketplace, developed the world’s only native agent mobile application for ((OTRS)) 6 Community Edition.
Episode 2 — The Empire Strikes Back
In March 2020, OTRS AG announced the release of OTRS 8. That meant that the release of OTRS 7 was ending its cycle. And everyone thought that a public version of the 7 would soon appear. Everything looked logical – the version 7 was already 2 years old, and a new version 8 was released.
However, there was no news about the new Community Edition. But at the end of the “wonderful” 2020, in which it was not easy for everyone, on December 23, OTRS AG publishes a security release — OTRS 6 and ((OTRS)) 6 Community Edition are insecure. And from January 1, 2021 there will not be any security updates anymore, despite promises in official releases and forum posts.
Tam-tam-tam … Tam-tadam … Tam-dadam …
Episode 3 — A New Hope
The time for such a release was the most inappropriate. Most of Europe and the United States went on Christmas break. Many, I’m sure, even missed this message in the mailing lists.
But already in early January 2021, many independent developers reacted to this situation. The reaction was predictable — everyone was outraged. Community Edition users also did not stand aside — people asked questions «what’s next?»
The hope that the free and open version has a future was given by several companies at once. They said they would fix bugs and make security releases, and announced a migration to version 7 Community, if released.
Episode 4 — The Force Awakens
Radiant System has been on the OTRS market for over 10 years. We were one of the first to join the OTRS partner program in 2010, and have been partners for 5 years. Despite all our efforts, we could not agree on mutually beneficial cooperation and decided to go our own way. Within these years we have strictly followed the strategy of our favorite product — OTRS, not in its current commercial sense, but in its original spirit. We have helped a large number of our customers save time and money and improve their business efficiency.
Due to the latest news from OTRS AG regarding the ((OTRS)) Community Edition we would like to declare support for the ((OTRS)) Community Edition. How we see it:
• creation of an open fork ((OTRS)) 6 Community Edition — Radiant. Repository — https://github.com/RadiantSystem/radiant
• compatibility support for Radiant c ((OTRS)) Community Edition versions 6 and 7, if released.
• support for the Radiant fork for at least 2 years — bug fixes and security update
• we plan to release of an open version of Radiant 7 in 2021 is in our plan
• we plan to release of a commercial version of Radiant 7 Service Desk in 2021
• initiation to create an alliance of developers ((OTRS)) Community Edition for the sustainable development of the product
• development of the marketplace https://rs4otrs.com
• release of new free and commercial add-ons for ((OTRS)) 6 Community Edition
Episode 5 — The Last Jedi
We believe the spirit and principles of open source software cannot be a subject of demagogic manipulations. Keeping our promises is the foundation of ethical business.
We share the initiative of all independent developers to support Community Edition and are ready to take an active part in the development and support of our favorite product.
We also offer, as written above, to bring together all developers and create a common strategy for collaboration and support. We understand that for the majority this is business, not charity. But we are sure that the developing community is the key to our success.
May the Force be with us!
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
MEU FAVORITO E CANDIDATO SUBSTITUTO …
>> OTOBO HELPDESK <<
COM A PALAVRA … STEFAN ROTHER, Founder of Rother OSS GmbH
https://otobo.de/en/rother-oss/
FIM DA ‘OTRS SERIES’, MINHAS CONSIDERAÇÕES SOBRE, EVENTUAL ‘OTOBO SERIES’
https://doc.otobo.org/manual/installation/stable/pt_BR/content/index.html
https://otobo.de/en/community/
referências:
1. https://portal.otrs.com/external/c/otrs-6-end-of-life
