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

[Peter Tribble]

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Guenther Alka <gea at napp-it.org> wrote:

>
> 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.
>

I don't think that's viable, at least in the short term. OmniOS has a
completely different ethos to OI, and there's a reason people chose
one distro or the other.

Attempting to force both requirements out of a single distro will likely
mean that you end up satisfying neither set of users, while making it
much harder for maintainers who have to support both sets of users.

Longer term is a slightly different picture. It's unlikely that OmniOS
will continue to diverge from illumos, and I would like to see the
features backported into illumos proper. Once that's done it makes
more sense to think about sharing, because at least you then have
a common illumos codebase.


> 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-151
>>> 022-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.
>>
>
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