[oi-dev] Resignation

[Thomas Wagner]

Hi Milan,

I'm sorry to hear that. I can understand your reasons
a little bit and would like to take the chance to say
a BIG THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH for your enourmous efforts 
you'd put into that projects in the past years.

I can only speak for the SFE project (fully independent
of the OpenIndiana project) and can say, SFE would not
be what it is now without your very large contribution.
Endless weekends, evening, nights must have been spent
on SFE instead of your friends and family.

I believe the same is true for OI and its sub-projects.

A word about SFE:
Just to take the chance, SFE itself is still spanning
accross the distributions. I hope SFE stays up for a lot
of more years and provide valuable build recipes for 
Solaris, OI (hopefully including hipster), OmniOS (early)
and who knows what else comes up.
I personally will try hard to keep SFE platform independent.
(so much loved pnm_macros, right ;)


My optinon, one word to the recent development in OI (last year?):
The next big task in SFE is indeed managing the changes
from oi151a8 to hipster, as things start to overlap/duplicate
a little. But I don't want to complain, more speak out
that a distro in my old conservative view should build up
a solid and even more rock solid, innovatively evolving, but
ever still compatible foundation.
I'll find a way to manage the changes, but it adds extra work
on the SFE side.

Generally:
I'm not much into discussion, as I spend my time mostly
to be productive in making spec files for SFE. But if
there are short questions, I'm happy to answer then.


My recommendation to the OI project is:
Keep the movation high but make ever wise and well thought
strategic decissions. Make the decisisons in a direction
so that at least a large number of the involved developers
and power users can tell them right.


Thanks Milan, I hope we'll meet one day in person!

Best Regards,
Thomas




On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 08:22:07PM +0200, Milan Jurik wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> based on the current situation with OI - lack of old OI non-hipster
> branch - and because of bad situation (according my view) of Illumos -
> like stupid ideas to include large chunks of 3rd party code to ON gate
> which makes it unmaintainable (why did Sun and Oracle invest so much to
> remove OpenSSL, SunSSH and ksh from ON gate? See how bad is ksh in
> Illumos and how old is Illumos SSH) I have to finalize my decision about
> my participation. Illumos and its distros are not for me anymore.
> 
> opensolaris.cz will be up for some time but no more updates to JDS and
> SFE. Do not hestitate to contact me in private if you think I still know
> something but I will not spend more time on the lists.
> If anybody is interested in some older bits then:
> 
> http://www.opensolaris.cz/builds/illumos-wpa-enterprise/webrev/
> http://www.opensolaris.cz/builds/tnf/webrev/
> http://www.opensolaris.cz/builds/ext2-merge/webrev/
> 
> Time to go
> 
> Milan 
> 
> 
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