[OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos distro support model was Martin Bochnig

[Ivar Janmaat]

Hello Volker,

I changed the subject of the e-mail but I don't agree that this is a 
different subject.

Martin Bochnig maintains the OpenSXCE distro and is now blocked on the 
following lists:
- openindiana-discuss
- llumos-Devel

I can imagine that nobody wants to contribute source code to a community 
if you are banned from the community lists.
As a result the CDDL license forbids you to distribute the distribution 
if the source code is not made available.
So basically, by acting this way, someone is killing a potential Illumos 
based Distro from which we all would benefit.
To me this does not feel good. Apparently Illumos has no professional 
governance model to resolve these issues.

If this can happen, any distro developer or vendor would think twice 
before developing on Illumos. And that is a bad thing for the whole 
Illumos community.
So I would suggest we think of a better way to approach this than hoping 
it will be solved by itself.
I would like to keep de OpenSXCE distro available for anyone and at the 
same time construct a transparent Illumos distro support model which 
will support current and hopefully new distros.
Call it an incubator package or kickstart package which would inspire 
new development on Illumos.
All suggestions are welcome.

Kind regards,

Ivar Janmaat