[oi-dev] Hipster News 2015W31: First issue !

[Alexander Pyhalov]

On 07/28/2015 14:23, Nikola M wrote:
>
>> Yes. OI /dev builds its own clone of illumos-gate, which contains
>> several patches, most notable vmxnet3s driver, some fixes to allow
>> smoother updates from OpenSolaris, some SMF fixes and branding
>> changes.  I think several of them can be easily upstreamed, several
>> are not so important
>
> I am thinking, wouldn't Hipster need such thing, too?
> So that some things that are not part of illumos, like LX zones, new
> tehnologies from Joyent and elsewhere, that haven't reach mainline
> illumos yet, but ae used on other distros,
> be included in Hipster to be able to be used and tested?
>
> That would require having clone of illumos-gate for Hipster, too,
> partially because there could be the day when OI would need to support
> it's releases and it can't be done without it's own maintained illumos
> clone.

I'd say no. Because you either work on your illumos-gate clone and 
support it (like Igor, for example, do), either you end up with 
out-of-date one (like OI /dev). But if you work on illumos-gate, you 
don't have time to work on userland. I don't have skills or desire to do 
anything sufficient with illumos-gate, so I'd better cooperate with 
upstream team.

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Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department