[OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns"

[Jan Owoc]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Bob Friesenhahn
<bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
>> People come and go, that's just a fact of life. The important thing for
>> OpenIndiana now is to get over it, select a new project lead and rock
>> on. We are all just as saddened as you are to see Alasdair leave, but I
>> would hope OpenIndiana was never just a single-person job.
>
> The main risk at the moment is that OpenIndiana is hosted on Alasdair's
> servers and openindiana.org is owned by EveryCity Ltd (i.e. Alasdair's
> company).  The servers and domain are still running but there is no telling
> about the future.


Alasdair, in his letter, wrote:
> I will continue, through EveryCity, to provide hosting for OpenIndiana's
> infrastructure. I also hope that a new project lead will step forward to
> look after things, and that they can carry the project forward. If no
> viable new lead steps forward then I would encourage the OpenIndiana
> developers to hand responsibility for it over to the Illumos Foundation.

I think that the larger problem is for the community to set some
attainable goals, and continues to deliver on them. I don't think
finding hosting will be a problem (whether EverCity continues to host
it or not).


Jan