On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 11:04 PM Till Wegmueller <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > +1 :) > > -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 > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> openindiana-discuss mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
