Gregory's Server@bagder non-technical person here. What prevents projects and orgs from moving their images to a repository that is genuinely supportive of open-source? Are there no such repo that offer similar services as Docker?
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 @raph @bagder Basically: people (and automated scripts) are going to be looking on DockerHub for images that are no longer there. In the best case scenario, this will break a ton of scripts and be a huge hassle for a long time as people slowly update where they're getting images from. In the worst case scenario, you'll have malicious namespace squatting in the deleted accounts. (DockerHub's said they'll keep namespaces safe/reserved but there's not a lot of trust right now for obvious reasons.) |
@raph @bagder Nothing is stopping projects from moving, but container registries exist in large part to allow other projects to automatically get images from them. Communicating to those projects that the image has moved is very difficult, and there's no evidence that the DockerHub will take the necessary steps to make things easier. I also believe that DockerHub is the default registry used by Docker, exacerbating the problem.