[OpenIndiana-discuss] Continuous Integration / Upgrading vanilla oi151a7

[Stefan Müller-Wilken]

Dear all,



I would like to get back to a discussion from back in February / March. Would it be possible to take up the thread and get a sort of regular release? I still believe this would help *a lot* to generate trust in OI.



What has happened to the CI installation? Is there a documented way to manually integrate of Illumos, Kernel and ZFS on top of a vanilla oi151a7?



Cheers

Stefan



>On 22 February 2013 14:48, Stefan Müller-Wilken < stefan.mueller-wilken

>at acando.de> wrote:

>

>> For the time being, all we can expect is people to feel an 'inner

>> urge' to put their personal time into this. Again: where would Linux

>> stand today if early adopters had waited for support contracts or

>> full-time positions to feed them? No, you must simply feel, or even

>> stronger, you must *know* it is worthwhile.

>>

>> I think simply collecting what is coming in from upstream and cutting

>> (pre-)releases from that in predictable frequency would incredibly help.

>> Why not settle for something similar to what OS did and Ubuntu does,

>> cut a release for every quarter, name it OpenIndiana 2013.3, 2013.6

>> etc. and put in all that is coming in from illumos, kernel and ZFS

>> repositories? That process should be put under continous build

>> control if possible to ease handling. Complement that with nightly builds and we're in the game again.

>>

>> People will rather use it when they see activity, users will

>> eventually be supporters and enough users and supporters could mean a

>> business case. And a business case could mean support contracts.

>>

>> Someone around with experience in building prestables who could

>> assist setting up a scripted build and maybe setting up a CI? Someone

>> to share necessary infrastructure to host this? Then why not just start moving?

>>

>> Cheers

>> Stefan


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