[oi-dev] Resignation

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 7 Sep 2014, Peter Firmstone wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It appears your developer has reached the point where he must quit to get his 
> point accross.

As best I can tell (based only on mailing list postings), Milan's main 
concerns were the marginal support for multimedia in the OpenIndiana 
desktop, and packages dissappearing from Illumos (e.g. OpenSSL) or 
being significantly altered (e.g. 'man') which then necessitate 
creating/rebuilding more base OpenIndiana packages, which ripple 
through the package dependency chain.  The lack of a working Adobe 
Flash player in Firefox on OpenIndiana is surely a major part of the 
multimedia issue.

> Illumos doesn't have any stable releases and it sounds like developers are 
> having issues with that.

The lack of "stable" Illumos releases really does not seem like a big 
deal.  In fact, most of the stresses on the OpenIndiana project seem 
like they are caused by other factors.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/