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[Maxim Kondratovich]

Probably Alasdair can help with the first step. He did some work so we 
have to ask about details and what plans he had about OI.
So it will be easier to continue his work.


On September  4, 2012 11:38:26 AM EET, Damian Wojslaw wrote:
> Hello
>
> So, all you OpenIndiana developers, whom I admire, what comes next? :)
> I've seen few people declaring they would like to help, I think
> packaging was mostly mentioned.
> Please, let me ask few questions.
>
> 1. Is this link still valid? http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/IPS+Knowledge
> 2. What would those people need to do, so start maintaining a package?
> Is there a process,
> like in Debian, a person has to go through before they are given
> package maintaining duty?
> 3. Is the development sof OI till going at all?
>
> 4. What you, OI developers, would want from this distribution? What
> your priorities are?
>
>
> I'd like to reiterate what I've said many times in the past, when
> OpenSolaris was still a live distribution.
> If illumos wants to become widespread, it needs desktop distribution,
> a usable one, so that people can use it,
> play with it and learn it. This is how Linux crept into datacenters,
> because people like me installed it as their
> hobby desktop, to look at X, to look at FVWM, to use pine and share
> modem connection at home. And then,
> it was natural to start exim and apache on it. And then people like me
> became admins, CIOs and CTOs and
> started to use what they knew and liked. And I'd love illumos to
> become the system people can install as their
> hobby desktop.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Damian Wojsław
>
>
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