[oi-dev] State of development

Wed Apr 17 01:29:28 UTC 2013

I've tried to stay away from commenting on this thread, but….

The problem with OI is lack of sufficient man power and leadership.   There are other problems as well ("vision" is one I referred to in the past).

But most urgently, to keep OI going, with any kind of cadence, it needs more volunteers.  The comments below point to lack of a plan . What's even worse than lack of a plan is lack of resources to *execute* a plan.  Release a full desktop distribution is *non-trivial*, and the road is littered with failed efforts due to insufficient resource, or lack of sufficient motivation.  (Nexenta used to have a desktop distro… that's how they started before they moved to storage -- the work/payoff ratio doing a desktop simply doesn't pay.)

I'm happy to report that illumos' future is no longer tied to OI's.  But I'd still love to see more folks pitch in and help drive it.  As for myself, I simply haven't the time to do so; illumos and my own commercial venture (not to mention my family!) leave me little time for hobby work anymore. :-) 

	- Garrett

On Apr 16, 2013, at 6:17 PM, Chris Jones c/o Unixmen <chrisjones at unixmen.com> wrote:

> As others have stated, a road-map outlining planned target dates for
> releases and updates is definately  needed and is what everyone wants to
> see. Otherwise, any project can seem stale and inactive.
> 
> I have been a long time reader of this mailing list and contact people
> via email regularly and I know OpenIndiana is far from dead and
> inactive. But looking at the information and resources on offer on the
> web, there's not really anything useful that suggests what is going on
> with the project and where it is heading. And there also needs to be
> clear information about who is in charge of what in the community. Who
> is the Project Leader? Who is in charge of development and organization
> of such tasks? If it is all there in the dark alleys of the internet
> somewhere, it certainly isn't easy to find.
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Chris Jones
> 
> 
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