[oi-dev] New Project Lead?

[Nick Zivkovic]

Depending on viewpoint, OpenSolaris is either alive or dead.

However, it is indisputable that OpenSolaris is also ambiguous, and confusing.

The distro is dead, but has been resurrected as OpenIndiana.

The OS is alive, but it is called Illumos (to avoid ambiguity).

Illumos is the only "OpenSolaris" out there, in the sense that it is
an open source descendant of Solaris 10, with extras.

I strongly recommend that we use unambiguous terminology from here on.
We may all understand what we mean when we use ambiguous terms, but
outsiders won't. And we don't have a lot outside contributors. Even if
we count the ex-sun talent that contributes to Illumos and its
distros, we have a dangerously low bus factor.

If we look at Illumos as many projects, instead of one (i.e. DTrace,
SMF, Zones, ZFS), we have an _even lower_ bus factor.

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Joerg Schilling
<Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> Magnus <magnus at yonderway.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sep 3, 2012, at 10:24 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> >
>> > Looks like you missunderstand the problem and that your understanding is one of
>> > the reasons for the existing problems.
>>
>> I'm not so sure that I misunderstand. I understand that OpenSolaris != OpenIndiana. They have a common ancestry, but they are two different things made by two different organizations.
>>
>> OpenSolaris is dead, the organization responsible for it has mostly buried it, and we should only be referring to it in the past-tense.
>
> It may be that your mistake is to believe that "OpenSolaris" is a distro?
>
> The real name of that distro was "Indiana" and Indiana is of course dead.
>
> I am however talking about OpenSolaris.....and this is a generic OS
> classification. SchilliX is the oldest distro based in OpenSolaris, Indiana
> started much later but is also nothing than a distro based on OpenSolaris.
>
> OpenSolaris is still alive....
>
> Jörg
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