[OpenIndiana-discuss] openindiana state

[Deano]

Hi,

I'd like to help with some work on the OI platform, I'm using it
successfully on several different machines and am very impressed. 

However one serious problem I've hit so far, is that the guide to compiling
things doesn't actually work very well. IO, Illumos, ONNV, JDS, Sunstudio,
GCC 3, GCC 4 and so on. Each seem to have an arcane list of commands to
follow and even then it doesn't work. I.e. I've got Illumos to compile but
the install part (onu?) fails completely on mine.

If someone who knows what it takes to make a full build environment for
Illumos and OpenIndiana, could make an IPS package, that would I expect get
some more interest in helping out. At the moment, it is just so damn hard to
get started if you come from a Linux/Windows dev environment, that I suspect
most people give up and go work on an easier to help project.

In an ideal world, I could grab the OI text installer, then use pfexec pkg
install IOBuildEnv, change into a directory, make install and be able to run
with an own built OI. Then fixing bugs and writing new drivers, etc could
happen much easier.

Thanks,
Deano



-----Original Message-----
From: Guido Berhoerster [mailto:gber at openindiana.org] 
Sent: 13 December 2010 13:12
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] openindiana state

* 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

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