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

[Nikola M]

On 07/28/15 02:28 PM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
> 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 out-of-date one (like OI /dev).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.
>

Ok, well untill someone realize such thing is need then and want to 
patch upstream illumos.

Just one notice,
I received your last 2 messages to my mail Inbox,
but I have not seeing them on dev mailing list,
because they lack List-id: header.
I don't know why that would be the case?