[oi-dev] Resignation

Mon Aug 11 22:16:29 UTC 2014

Milan Jurik <milan.jurik at xylab.cz> wrote on 08/11/2014 01:22:07 PM:
> 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
>

I have to admit, parts of this are a bit confusing to me. While there are
some things coming into illumos, there is more going out. It's looking vary
much like OpenSSL is going to be gone (from what I can tell, it's just a
matter of making sure nothing depends on it, which is being worked on now),
WU-ftpd is looking like it's going to be removed, SUN DHCPd is looking to
be going too. Cardbus was just dropped, which is part of removing legacy
PM.

I definitely understand the lack of stable OI releases (or any apparent
desire to make a stable release from hipster) being frustrating.

At any rate, best of luck. You'll be missed.

Andrew Hettinger
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