[oi-dev] oi_151a9 roadmap & planning

[Joerg Schilling]

Alasdair Lumsden <alasdairrr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Seth,
>
> When I started OpenIndiana, I wanted to avoid the "Linux Distribution
> Fragmentation" issue, so I created a community distro and tried to solicit
> input from everyone and try to keep everyone happy.
>
> I failed miserably. Nobody wants to collaborate, everyone wants to do their
> own thing. Hence the huge number of distros you see before you.

The problem with OpenIndiana is that it is a continuation project for "Sun 
Indiana". Sun Indiana however (if ignoring the IPS issue) has been created 
using my project proposal for a community based distro I send to Sun in 2005.
Sun did take the ideas from the proposal but did not collaborate... 

OpenIndiana for this reason has a heritage of missing collaboration. It needs 
to be restructured in order to prevent contradictions with other distros in 
order to allow collaboration.

> XStreamOS, DilOS, Schillix etc all have their own goals and agendas, and
> again, have no interest in collaborating.

I cannot speak for the other distros, but SchilliX definitely is interested in 
collaboration once possible partners do not act in a way that prevents 
collaboration. Note that I am trying to support collaboration since September 
2004 and definitely since June 17 2005 when SchilliX was published as the first 
OpenSolaris based distro.

What do we need for collaboration?

Well....

-	IPS must not be the only packaging

-	/usr/gnu must not be the default first entry in PATH

-	/sbin/sh may be a link to the Bourne Shell

-	scripts need to be open for being able to mount /usr using
	the Bourne Shell.

-	We need to find a way for versioned libraries to support
	as much binary compatibility as possible.

Jörg

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