No. Nobody is ever too small to achieve something. You just need to be
clever about it. We always have the assumption that building packages is
the main burden for Systems, but that is only if you don't have the
right automation. And that is possible. Fully automate bumping package
versions is possible. Build systems are similar enough, aaand many
projects now switch to meson which is specifically automate able and
standardized. So the burden is only there if you are not innovative. And
our size makes us the perfect group for such innovation. We have the
need. The Debian community does not have a need for innovation in
packaging automation they are to big. When I talk with my friend which
is Debian packager from the very beginning, he says the same. Everybody
is happy with the Status quo and wants no changes as they don't need
them. Then they get stuck. We can't afford to get stuck. Thats a good thing.
-Till
On 07.01.21 18:50, Guenther Alka wrote:
In the end I do not think in these categories.
A few years ago all my own servers were OpenIndiana and maybe 40% of my
users on Solaris. Now I am 100% on OmniOS beside a OI evaluation machine
(and miss OI features and use cases) and maybe 10% of my users are left
on Solaris with OI near to not relevant now.
OmniOS and OI are OpenSource. Why not take over this from OmniOS to keep
them more in sync?
On Linux Debian and Ubuntu are big enough to be independent while very
similar. On Illumos everyone may be too small alone in the long run.
Gea
What you want is to make a OmniOS extra respoitory (git) with GUi
packages. That would factually mean abandoning OI and the Goal of a
General Purpose OS. That would be an acquisition not a merger.
-Till
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