[OpenIndiana-discuss] To the OmniOS, OI and SmartOS community

[Guenther Alka]

At the moment OmniOS is a free Illumos distribution that is exclusively 
maintained inside OmniTi without any community involved, similar to 
Nexenta or SmartOS with the unique key features support, free, stables 
every 6 months and long term stables every two years with a dedicated 
repo, freeze of features and backported fixes.

There are many users who want exact these OmniOS features not available 
in OI.
The discussion now is if such an effort should be based on the current 
OmniOS bloody
or can be based on a common development effort together with the OI 
community.

I want the discussion going into a common future as I fear that a new 
separate OmniOS community effort will only weaken Illumos/OI and cannot 
survive in the long term.  My hope is that a stronger OI/OmniOS is the 
outcome instead where OmniOS is a stable add-on feature for OI snapshots.


Gea


Am 18.05.2017 um 11:24 schrieb Alexander Pyhalov:
> On 05/18/17 12:15 PM, Guenther Alka wrote:
>> News about OmniOS and Discuss about free Illumos distributions and
>> future OmniOS/OI options
>>
>> I have started a thread in a popular forum with a strong ZFS focus to
>> discuss this
>> also with regular users outside the maillists.
>>
>> https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/omnios-151022-long-term-stable.14367/page-2 
>>
>
> Hi.
> So far, as I understand, OmniOS developers choose to support existing 
> infrastructure and build systems and there's no development on merging 
> OI and OmniOS code base. Without OmniOS developers interested in this, 
> this talk is useless.