[oi-dev] Post 151 development

[Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz]

Hi All,

I'll allow myself to add my 2 cents...

Alasdair Lumsden wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'd like to raise the topic of post-151 development.
>
> Jon (Tibble/Meths) - obviously you've been doing great work on the prestable
> builds. I think I asked when we should ship to /stable, and basically I got the
> impression you weren't comfortable doing that until we had most of the CVEs
> fixed and could support it from a security standpoint.
>
> I don't think that's realistic right now, as CVEs are coming out faster than we
> can fix them.
>
> So as such, I'd like to propose that one of the next prestables be a candidate
> for being shipped to "/release", rather than "/stable" and the notion of /stable
> be abandoned for now.
>
> We could do something like aim to push a /release every 6 to 12 months, and we
> can aim to backport critical bug and security fixes to it from /dev. But it will
> give users a bit of stability and free us up to move /dev forward faster.
>
> That fits in with OpenSolaris, where /release wasn't guaranteed free of security
> holes (you had to pay for that). Obviously we can still ship CVE and bug fixes
> to it, but it sets realistic expectations and hopefully addresses your concern
> with using the name "/stable"

...

Me and my organisation, we're interested in a Solaris replacement OS for some 
number of infrastructure servers (mail, dns, directory, web, ...). I've seen 
many people using OI as a home desktop or home server. Some people around me 
aren't even testing it, but just observing.

I have now two physical machines running OI, not yet in production, but I'm 
testing all software I use - I usually compile them myself. And it seems that, 
for the moment, all works fine.

I think that to begin being really used there should be a official release, as 
suggested by Alasdair. To do this, it could be enough to solve the serious 
issues and list the other minors as "known issues". Let's say, solve issues 
preventing OI to be used as a production server.

OK, OK, there are more talkers than doers, and I'm one of them... Unfortunately, 
I was quite busy in the last four years and I'll still be in the next 6 months, 
but I hope I'll be able to dedicate some time sometime in the future to 
contribute to oi.

Best regards and thank you very much for the enormous good job done here.

José-Marcio