[OpenIndiana-discuss] openindiana state

[Guido Berhoerster]

* Edward Martinez <mindbender_1 at live.com> [2010-12-13 05:28]:
> As a OpenIndiana user I'm curious what is the present state of the
> OpenIndiana project?

OpenIndiana b148 will be released real soon now, yesterday we
discovered some showstoppers which have been fixed. For the next
release we will focus on replacing Oracle's ONNV with Illumos
which will likely take a bit of time given our limited manpower.

>    The  reason I'm asking is because I have noticed a decline of
> activity in the mailing lists compared to when the project first
> started and OpenIndiana's     home website has not really been

It just means nobody has volunteered to improve it, most of us
are working on the actual distribution. We will try to make it
easier for people to get involved, however despite the large
interest in the project so far very few people have shown
interest in actually doing work on the project.

So if anybody is interested in contributing feel free to contact
us on oi-dev at openindiana.org or #oi-dev on IRC.
Contributions do not have to be purely technical, e.g. help with
marketing including improvements to the main website or
documentation would all be appreciated as well and probably speed
up development pace.
-- 
Guido Berhoerster