You're absolutely right, and we're actually working on that. We're bringing it back into alignment with the next generation. We talked about that a little bit here: https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-01-31-elevate-updates/
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That's a bummer! I know there's a few places that have used it on the 50k+ scale, so once the kinks for your environment, it should be great. If there's anything that can be done to improve the script, we'd love to help! Feel free to join the chat and share what's up in ~migrations.
Sure! That's likely an accurate representation. I also just gave this talk that goes a bit deeper, if that's helpful/interesting: https://youtu.be/Jjda39dlu7I
Current Chef employee here. Progress has stated they expect to continue to support the Chef Open Source commitment, so Cinc should be business as usual.
Side note: As the Progress is publicly traded, there were some super strict guidelines around who could know about the transaction and when. From what I understand, pretty much no one could know, primarily because of the risk of insider trading.