Changes to Docker Hub Autobuild per June 18th, 2021

[vweevers]

As one of the users of Docker Hub's Autobuild service, we wanted to reach out and let you know that from June 18th, 2021 users on the free plan will no longer have access to the Autobuild feature. This means that any of your currently configured Autobuild will fail to run and you will need to upgrade to a Pro or Team account to restore functionality. You can read more about the changes on our blog

Seems like we should apply to the open source program:

If you’re part of the Docker Open Source program, and currently leveraging Autobuilds as part of a Free plan, we want to continue supporting you and we will be reaching out to make sure you will not be impacted by this change.

Do we qualify?

To qualify for the Open Source Program status, all the repos within the Publisher’s Docker namespace must:

• Be public and non-commercial
• Meet the Open Source Initiative (OSI) definition (shown here), including definitions for free distribution, source code, derived works, integrity of source code, licensing and no tolerance for discrimination
• Distribute images under OSI approved open source license
• Produce Docker images used to run applications

Not sure about the last one. What kind of image is not running an application? 🤔

Well, let's apply and we'll find out.

[vweevers]

Questions to answer on the Docker Open Source Community Application:

• Reason for creating this project
  Cross-compiling prebuilt binaries for Node.js addons
• The types of user(s) that benefit from this project
  npm package authors and their end users
• The number of users you estimate benefit from this project
  According to GitHub (which isn't always correct), 128K repositories depend on dependents of prebuildify-cross. Weekly npm downloads for the dependents of prebuildify-cross total roughly 1M. How do you translate that to a user count?

[ralphtheninja]

Since we can't know an end user count that's in any way accurate, I think we should only show the stats we do know of. E.g. download counts from npm, dependent packages and dependents of dependents.

[vweevers]

There's no room on the form for any explanation, just a single number:

[vweevers]

How about we answer with a range? E.g. 10K-100K

[ralphtheninja]

Sure!

[vweevers]

Submitted.

[vweevers]

No longer need Docker Hub or Autobuild: #19.