# Unmaintained collection: openvswitch.openvswitch **URL:** \ **Category:** Project Discussions\ **Tags:** resolved, community-wg, collections, awx\ **Created:** [June 7, 2024, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unmaintained-collection-openvswitch-openvswitch/6245 "2024-06-07T15:07:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![KB-perByte](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/kb-perbyte/32/541_2.png) [@KB-perByte](https://forum.ansible.com/u/KB-perByte)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unmaintained-collection-openvswitch-openvswitch/6245/21 "2025-11-18T16:30:04Z")
Hi @noonedeadpunk, we can help you with any details you need. The collection, as mentioned in this thread, is deprecated and is planned to be archived after December 2025. I’ll follow up with more details regarding ownership transfers. Regards. ---
**Author:** ![rohitthakur2590](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/rohitthakur2590/32/1922_2.png) [@rohitthakur2590](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rohitthakur2590)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unmaintained-collection-openvswitch-openvswitch/6245/22 "2025-11-18T16:54:10Z")
+1 to Sagar’s note. We’re currently reviewing the ownership requests and will share more information here as things progress. ---
**Author:** ![noonedeadpunk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/noonedeadpunk/32/7605_2.png) [@noonedeadpunk](https://forum.ansible.com/u/noonedeadpunk)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unmaintained-collection-openvswitch-openvswitch/6245/23 "2025-11-18T18:50:06Z")
@KB-perByte so pretty much we want to ensure that collection is working and compatible with relevant ansible, python and openvswitch versions, to keep it basically in maintained state. Alternatively we were considering forking it and publishing to a different namespace, however our projects and governance are all licensed with Apache 2.0, so having GNU GPL licensed code withing is not great, so we’d rather avoid it. We are ready to start working on it, if there is somebody around to review patches and/or onboard. So I guess main question would be - if we should try getting current collection maintained, or rather you would suggest going through forking right away? ---
**Author:** ![gundalow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gundalow/32/99_2.png) [@gundalow](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gundalow)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 8:22am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unmaintained-collection-openvswitch-openvswitch/6245/24 "2025-11-19T08:22:55Z")
If people that are interested in helping with the openvswitch Collection reply with their GitHub account I can grant you `write` on the repo. Feel free to start a new Forum Post with ideas for next steps. If we get that added to The Bullhorn and mentioned in the Collection’s readme we can attract new contributors ---
**Author:** ![noonedeadpunk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/noonedeadpunk/32/7605_2.png) [@noonedeadpunk](https://forum.ansible.com/u/noonedeadpunk)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 8:52am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unmaintained-collection-openvswitch-openvswitch/6245/25 "2025-11-19T08:52:07Z")
Yes, sure: - [mnasiadka (Michał Nasiadka) · GitHub](https://github.com/mnasiadka) - [noonedeadpunk (Dmitriy Rabotyagov) · GitHub](https://github.com/noonedeadpunk/) We’re working on different orgs, but agreed to collaborate on maintenance of the collection, so diversity concern is also being addressed here 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![noonedeadpunk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/noonedeadpunk/32/7605_2.png) [@noonedeadpunk](https://forum.ansible.com/u/noonedeadpunk)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unmaintained-collection-openvswitch-openvswitch/6245/26 "2025-12-09T13:02:57Z")
@gundalow are there any updates on the topic? ---
**Author:** ![noonedeadpunk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/noonedeadpunk/32/7605_2.png) [@noonedeadpunk](https://forum.ansible.com/u/noonedeadpunk)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 10:42am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unmaintained-collection-openvswitch-openvswitch/6245/27 "2026-01-07T10:42:43Z")
Hey! It would be nice to get the ball rolling with openvswitch.openvswitch. Please let me know if there’s anything we can do from our side, or should move on with a “backup” plan on running a fork… ---
**Author:** ![KB-perByte](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/kb-perbyte/32/541_2.png) [@KB-perByte](https://forum.ansible.com/u/KB-perByte)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 10:52am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unmaintained-collection-openvswitch-openvswitch/6245/28 "2026-01-07T10:52:45Z")
@noonedeadpunk let me quickly check on this, will update you shortly. Regards ---
**Author:** ![KB-perByte](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/kb-perbyte/32/541_2.png) [@KB-perByte](https://forum.ansible.com/u/KB-perByte)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unmaintained-collection-openvswitch-openvswitch/6245/29 "2026-01-07T13:36:50Z")
There needs to be some updates that needs to be done at our end, I have initiated those and we can help you with the required access in next week. @noonedeadpunk Cheers. ---
**Author:** ![KB-perByte](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/kb-perbyte/32/541_2.png) [@KB-perByte](https://forum.ansible.com/u/KB-perByte)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2026, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unmaintained-collection-openvswitch-openvswitch/6245/30 "2026-01-15T16:03:13Z")
@noonedeadpunk can you please drop me an email at [sagpaul@redhat.com](mailto:sagpaul@redhat.com) with the GitHub usernames that must be added as maintain access to he [GitHub - ansible-collections/openvswitch.openvswitch: Ansible Network Collection for Open vSwitch](https://github.com/ansible-collections/openvswitch.openvswitch) repo Thanks ---
**Author:** ![gundalow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gundalow/32/99_2.png) [@gundalow](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gundalow)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2026, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unmaintained-collection-openvswitch-openvswitch/6245/31 "2026-01-20T14:45:07Z")
Hi, Just wanted to check that the new maintainers have the access they need, and if everything is working ok? ---
**Author:** ![noonedeadpunk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/noonedeadpunk/32/7605_2.png) [@noonedeadpunk](https://forum.ansible.com/u/noonedeadpunk)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2026, 3:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unmaintained-collection-openvswitch-openvswitch/6245/32 "2026-01-20T15:13:31Z")
Yes, we were granted an access, but have not done anything actively, as I at least need to plan that accordingly and finalize some ongoing things first. ---
**Author:** ![gundalow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gundalow/32/99_2.png) [@gundalow](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gundalow)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2026, 4:05pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unmaintained-collection-openvswitch-openvswitch/6245/33 "2026-01-20T16:05:22Z")
@noonedeadpunk perfect, just wanted to check folks have the access they needed. [Previous page](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unmaintained-collection-openvswitch-openvswitch/6245.md?page=1)