[oi-dev] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

[Jesus Cea]

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On 14/01/11 22:29, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> IMO, you are doomed to suffer this way.  The reason for this is that OI
> simply doesn't have the developer resources necessary to provide
> "support" for such a massive amount of software... even the limited set
> you list here is huge -- ON by itself is 15M lines of code.

While I do agree with Garret that an Illumos based OI would be in far
better shape for support, I can see everyday that a lot of people around
there are pretty screwed with Oracle movements and demand an
alternative. We must try hard to not miss this opportunity window. HARD!.

Tracking something mainstream like RH6 would ease the maintenance burden
a lot. The main problem would be supporting the native OpenSolaris bits.
For instance, solving any serious bug in ON. Luckily Illumos would patch
it and OI would be able to backport the patch to ON 148 codebase.

With the 6 months/next stable release support deadline, I think/hope it
is doable. The alternative is to wait for the illumos based OI, losing
any relevance in the process (for instance, Oracle publishes Solaris 11
first). The risk here is to have a really bad security bug we are not
able to fix in a timely way, losing any reputation in the process, forever.

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