Docker hub tags don't seem to be up to date

[gdsmith]

Looking at the tags on Docker Hub I can only see master being updated. Should we use the two year old v0.4.0 or is it safe to use master?

[simonpasquier]

v0.4.0 is the latest official release of the exporter.

[gdsmith]

Okay, yes I see that, but the busybox image that it's based on has been updated several times since then

[IzabellaRaulin]

v0.4.0 is over 2 years old. Is there any plan to prepare a new release?

cc: @juliusv

[eero-t]

Latest release is v0.6.0 => close this ticket?

[faust64]

As of today, last released image is 6 months old.
Even if that's the last version of the code in master branch.
Outside of a homelab, where I'm sure this is fine ... in a corporate environment: this is pretty much unusable.

Question still stands,
If those images aren't maintained, dependencies aren't upgraded, 6 months old PRs pending, ... That's not much useful.
How did this end up as an official Prometheus exporter?
It it still maintained?

[juliusv]

How did this end up as an official Prometheus exporter?

Honestly, I think the way this happened is that in the early days of Prometheus we didn't take much care about what becomes an "official" exporter and simply added anything under the prometheus org that was written by one of the Prometheus team members and seemed semi-relevant. But honestly I've never had anything to do with collectd in my life and don't even remember how I originally got recruited to be listed as the maintainer here (maybe just because nobody else was there).

It it still maintained?

Not by me, honestly. I'll ask on the developers mailing list whether anyone is interested in taking it over, unless you'd be interested in that?

[juliusv]

I sent a mail to the prometheus-developers mailing list, looking for a new maintainer: https://groups.google.com/g/prometheus-developers/c/FX4NjCckoa8