[OpenIndiana-discuss] Merging OI + OmniOS? (And OpenZFS vs ZFS)

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 07.01.21 um 18:08 schrieb Guenther Alka:
> Not broken as it never worked
> (multi purpose Illumos Unix with a stable/long term stable/newest beta
> base).
>
> OI currently: always and only newest beta based
> so Yes: (maybe easy to say as I cannot help to do the needed work -
> unsure about the needed efforts)
>
> When I remember the first steps of OpenIndiana, the lack of a stable
> was a constant item on all meetings.
>
> When OmniOS started they first tried to use OpenIndiana as base what
> was more or less OpenSolaris at that time with too many dependencies.
> Then Illumos started as a minimalistic OS based on OpenSolaris and
> OmniOS used this as base. Now as OI is pure Illumos as base and OmniOS
> is more or less pure Illumos freezed in a fork per release there is no
> real reason to have two bases and two software repositories for
> different use cases with the problem for OI that the underlying
> Illumos can change from day to day.
>
> Gea
You don't seem to have read my former answers, so I will retry:

The most important answer you have to give is: Who will do the necessary
work?

Actual numbers:

Number of active OI maintainers: <single digit natural number>
Number of active OI maintainers with commit rights: 1
Number of testers (not also being a maintainer): 1
Number of admins (not also being a maintainer with commit rights): 0


More questions you should answer as a business man:
- Do you have an estimation of the needed efforts, eg. for creating a
minimal version (tdb!) of what you propose?
- What are you willing to spend to start/support these efforts?


We need to increase all the numbers I presented above before it makes
even sense to discuss a change like you are proposing!
OI is an open source project without any company background and without
anybody getting money for what he/she is doing!

As I wrote before: We don't lack good ideas, we lack people doing actual
work!


Andreas



>
> Am 07.01.2021 um 17:24 schrieb Chris:
>> On 2021-01-07 06:02, Kalle Anka via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>>> Well spoken,, Gea! I am in favour of consolidating the OpenSolarish
>>> community. If
>>> merging would reinvogarate interest and momentum, it can be worth
>>> it. And you guys
>>> have been discussing this merging for ages, it is your old idea
>>> taken up again. It
>>> seems that several of you think this is the only way forward, in the
>>> long run.
>>> This is what we want to do. Base a desktop package ontop OmniOS
>>> stable (or LTS). I
>>> am interested in helping such an effort.
>>> Some people say yay, some say nay. Should we create a poll, to see
>>> how large the
>>> interest is?
>>
>> I vote: NAY.
>> There is no need to fix what is not broken.
>>
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