Hi Frederik,

As someone who translates news articles into Chinese for the Chinese community, I would like to ask for some clarification about this announcement.

> Also, from this point forward, the redis package will not receive any additional updates and should be considered deprecated until it is removed.

"This point" could mean either the following:

1. from when this news is announced, PMs will not update redis in the [extra] repo during the 14 days period, and it should be considered deprecated until it is removed from the [extra] repo.

2. from the moving to the [extra] repo, the AUR redis package will also not receive updates in the future, and should be considered deprecated until it is removed from AUR in the future.

Which explanation is this announcement intended to convey to the users?

Thank you.

Best regards,

Jiachen YANG

2024年8月14日(水) 7:28 Frederik Schwan <freswa@archlinux.org>:

Hi everyone,

As you might have heard by now redis got a new license and *some* forks were created [1].
Valkey as one of them is developed by the Linux Foundation, and adopted by Fedora already [2].
So we think it's a good step to follow that path and replace redis by valkey.

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# Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository

valkey, a modern in-memory data store, will soon be replacing redis in the [extra] repository. This
change is due to Redis modifying its license from BSD-3-Clause to RSALv2 and SSPLv1 on March 20th, 2024[1].

Arch Linux Package Maintainers intend to support the availability of the redis package for roughly
90 days from the day of this post, to enable a smooth transition to valkey. After the 90 transition
period has ended, the redis package will be moved to the AUR. Also, from this point forward, the redis
package will not receive any additional updates and should be considered deprecated until it is removed.

Users are recommended to begin transitioning their use of redis to valkey as soon as possible to
avoid possible complications after the 90 day transition window closes.

[0] https://github.com/redis/redis/commit/0b34396924eca4edc524469886dc5be6c77ec4ed

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Best regards,
Andrew and Frederik

[1] https://redis.io/blog/redis-adopts-dual-source-available-licensing/
[2] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launches-open-source-valkey-community