[oi-dev] OI User documentation

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 25.12.15 um 17:40 schrieb Aurélien Larcher:
>
>     Having Mercurial and/or GIT locally (possibly with  on Openindiana
>     servers has strong benefits to just using Github because at the
>     end all sources and final results must be distributed with the
>     releases and it makes sense for easy mirroring and distribution.
>     If it is put on GitHib it again has to be moved to OI servers to
>     there is no much merit to keeping it on Github.
>
> On the contrary since oi-userland, pkg and slim_source reside on 
> Github, I do not see the point in reinventing the wheel or incur 
> additional maintenance.
>
>
>
>     Hipster actually has very little documentation and comments on
>     changes and following mailing list talks on changes (if any) is
>     painful.
>
>
> I beg to disagree: Hipster has the some documentation and comments, 
> what it lacks is mostly formalism and visibility.
> I must say that I do not like the tone of this type of (repeated) 
> comment because at the end of the day OpenIndiana is what people do 
> with/for it: if there is something missing/broken, you just fix it and 
> if you cannot, well no need to blame.
> Contrary to GNU/Linux distributions, I do not several giant companies 
> pouring millions of $ of development in OI every year so I accept the 
> fact that it is really community supported.
>
> I am happy with Hipster and most of the issues are due to a lack of 
> support of third party applications/drivers which is out of the scope 
> of plain distribution integration and maintenance.
>
> Instead of talking about "two development branches" let us consider 
> /dev dead for good, move forward, provide an upgrade path and 
> emphasize on the fact that Hipster does get security fixes while /dev 
> does not get any.
>
> So if you want something to happen in the future, help Hipster finish 
> the migration of components to oi-userland and help documenting.
> If you cannot run it on your machine, run it in Virtualbox for 
> development and testing.
>
> Until that milestone is reached, speculation seems vain and repeated 
> criticism without constructive behaviour can be considered harmful.
+1

Regards
Andreas
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