Should ion-sfu (and Ion) be archived and alternatives suggested

[Sean-Der]

This repo hasn't seen a commit since 2022. Should we mark it as deprecated and suggest alternatives to people?

I still have people joining the Pion slack asking questions about ion-sfu. I worry they are adopting software that isn't serving them best.

If someone has an interest in restarting this project I would love too see that!

[Sean-Der]

@OrlandoCo @adwpc What do you think?

[OrlandoCo]

@Sean-Der Hello Sean, sorry this years has been crazy with lots of work and I think I will not have enough resources to keep working on ion-sfu, I would be happy to maybe fork and keep an updated SFU only version since all the ion stuff adds complexity and block some design changes and I have never worked with it, as an alternative I would always suggest to point users to livekit.

[Sean-Der]

My vote is that we point users to a list of 'Maintained SFUs'. LiveKit is fantastic, but I want to allow users to evaluate all their options!

Maybe we put something in https://github.com/pion/webrtc Wiki? I can start a 'Pion WebRTC SFU/Server Recommendations'. We can try to make an objective article to give users the best options.

[adwpc]

@Sean-Der You are right. LiveKit is fantastic. I suggest people to use it too.

[shushenghong]

livekit is too large now, ion-sfu is a module can integrated with my own projects, is there any alternative libs?

[Sean-Der]

@shushenghong https://github.com/inlivedev/sfu is promising. It has the same design/patterns behind ion-sfu.

Gives you a sfu as an API, not meant to be a feature complete server.

[Sean-Der]

@adwpc @OrlandoCo Could I get access to the ion repos and I can mark things as archived?

I would love if someone would adopt/start working on ion again. Until that happens we need to warn users it isn't being updated though!

[OrlandoCo]

@Sean-Der I was just a contributor, I can give you access, but would prefer @adwpc to do it since he is the actual owner of the project.

[shushenghong]

@shushenghong https://github.com/inlivedev/sfu is promising. It has the same design/patterns behind ion-sfu.

Gives you a sfu as an API, not meant to be a feature complete server.

thank you :)

[jech]

@shushenghong:

livekit is too large now, ion-sfu is a module can integrated with my own projects, is there any alternative libs?

Please consider Galene. It's 12000 lines of pure Go code, and should be easy to adapt to your needs.