Is Fiware Cephues obsolete?

Question

Fiware Cepheus home page says that its branch is archived and 'read only' now. https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/fiware-cepheus So does it mean: 1. There would be no future support and development in this community? 2. As alternative we should use 'Perseo' as its similar in functionality https://perseo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Answer 1

In general, archiving a GitHub project means that "the project is no longer actively maintained. https://help.github.com/en/articles/about-archiving-repositories

The Fiware Cepheus page also states that "no new features will be added, nor issues fixed by the original team." So this means option 1 is the answer to your question.

There exists 21 forks of this project, so perhaps the community is moving over to one of those?

I am not familiar with 'Perseo', so I cannot tell you if option 2 is a good solution or not.

Answer 2

Yes, further information can be found in the FIWARE 7.4 Release Note

As announced at the Porto Global Summit 2018, five generic enablers were placed under analysis and have subsequently been removed:

• Proton, 3D-UI, FiVES, Cepheus, Aeron IoT Broker

Perseo is the now the preferred generic enabler for complex event processing, replacing Proton and Cepheus. 3D-UI. FiVES and Aeron are no longer seen to be a good fit with the FIWARE project.

If you want to use Complex Event Processing you are left with two choices:

1. Convert your project to use Perseo and continue to enjoy community support and development.
2. Continue to use an archived CEP processor, fork it and make further bug fixes on your own.