But they do. Openindiana is still the reference as the only disto that can build vanilla an unmodified illumos-gate. Unless that has changed?
Resources are tight enough that if there are mentors for OI willing to help out I see no issue. Unless we have a larger number of mentors and viable candidates than slots. I doubt that is going to happen this year based on the responses so far. I also haven't heard any of OI developers offer to mentor so it may be a moot question. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 13, 2014, at 9:27 AM, Keith Wesolowski <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:13:42PM -0500, Albert Lee wrote: >> >> After talking to others, I've been convinced that it's a good idea to >> continue participating this year, and I'm willing to be the organisation >> admin provided we try to size projects appropriately to account for risk, >> testing and review. I'm working on the application. >> >> If anyone has strong objections let me know. If OI is interested in >> applying as well we should coordinate to see if a combined application is >> appropriate. Slots can be divided amongst the respective mentors. > > Sounds good; thanks, Albert. I'd prefer very strongly to have OI apply > separately if they want to participate. A combined application > encourages the belief that OI occupies a privileged position in the > community relative to other distributions, which as we all know is not > the case. I also fear that it might make it difficult to convey the > right message around what illumos is and the type of work we're > interested in sponsoring (namely, OS work). For the same reasons, I > would also oppose a combined application with any other distribution. > > > ------------------------------------------- > illumos-developer > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182179/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182179/21239177-3604570e > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21239177&id_secret=21239177-2d0c9337 > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
