Outdated operators on OperatorHub

[immanuelfodor]

Type of question

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General context and help, community best bractices

Question

What did you do?
I installed OLM and tried to install the Minio and Postgres operators.

What did you expect to see?
I expected to see the latest available release installed of the above operators.

What did you see instead? Under which circumstances?
I got seriously outdated operators, so I ended up removing them - then finally removing OLM as well as I have no use case besides these operators 😢

Postgres:

• All releases: https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator/releases
• Source latest: 1.5.0 (May 5, 2020)
• OLM latest: 1.3.0 (Dec 17, 2019)

Minio:

• All releases: https://github.com/minio/operator/releases
• Source latest: 3.0.13 (Aug 14, 2020)
• OLM latest: 1.0.3 (Sep 17, 2019) ☠️

Environment

• operator-lifecycle-manager version: v0.15.1
• Kubernetes version information:

Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"18", GitVersion:"v1.18.8", GitCommit:"9f2892aab98fe339f3bd70e3c470144299398ace", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2020-08-13T16:12:48Z", GoVersion:"go1.13.15", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}
Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"18", GitVersion:"v1.18.6", GitCommit:"dff82dc0de47299ab66c83c626e08b245ab19037", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2020-07-15T16:51:04Z", GoVersion:"go1.13.9", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}

• Kubernetes cluster kind: RKE

Additional context
OLM is a great tool but packages should be maintained. I could open two tickets for these operators for an OLM package update but I suppose this is a more general issue that needs to be solved on the OLM-side. Maybe enforce at least monthly updates to keep the packages from being labeled as outdated in the OperatorHub?

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[ecordell]

If this is a concern, please address in operator-framework/community-operators. The OLM maintainers do not maintain the community catalogs. Thanks!