[oi-dev] [illumos-Developer] Proposed plan for the next releases of OpenIndiana

[Garrett D'Amore]

Sounds good to me.  Going forward, we need to recognize that we need to decouple our releases from Oracle build numbers.

Albert Lee <trisk at opensolaris.org> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>At today's developer meeting, we've gone over our release plans and
>this is a summary of what we will do going forward:
>
>Our experimental build[1] based on illumos and Oracle 148 will
>continue receiving updates in preparation for our next development
>build.
>
>Our next development build will be based on illumos and Oracle's 151a
>consolidations, and will be published to /dev, at which point /dev-il
>will no longer exist as a separate repository.
>
>Our stable release will be based directly on the aforementioned
>development build, addressing any major issues after the initial
>development release. This release will be published to /stable (and/or
>/release?).
>
>I'd like to know if this sounds sane to everyone (anyone?), and if
>there are additional concerns that we may have missed.
>
>Thanks!
>
>[1]  Our preliminary illumos-based build is at
>http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev-il . The media was well-received at the
>illumos exhibit at SCALE 9x. We're working on some additional changes
>to complete illumos integration and will keep the versions of all
>consolidations at Oracle's 148.
>
>-Albert
>
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