[OmniOS-discuss] Bug ?

[Tobias Oetiker]

----- On Jul 2, 2017, at 12:09 PM, Andy Fiddaman omnios at citrus-it.net wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Jun 2017, Guenther Alka wrote:
> 
> ; Unless there are news regarding OmniOS my stance is
> ;
> ; - OmniOS 151022 is a freeze of current Illumos + LX. At the moment it is the
> ; most stable and feature rich free Illumos general use server distribution with
> ; the addition LX zones. As there is no repo and development outside OmniTi it
> ; is freezed. There are no signs from OmniTi to add any fixes. As packages are
> ; signed it does not work outside OmniTi. As OmniOS 151023 is identical without
> ; signed packages a community based repo based on it with possible fixes as
> ; 151022ce (community edition) is a suggestion (but sadly I am not an OS
> ; developer).
> 
> Momentum does appear to be lacking unfortunately. Here at Citrus we have
> forked the OmniOS repositories and are continuing to maintain them for
> internal use while we consider options.
> 
> We have kept omnios-build packages up-to-date where there are security
> fixes (two Bind updates, 7-zip CVE patch, OpenSSL [IIRC]) and backported a
> handful of illumos changes that are relevant to us. We can keep going like
> this for a good while and I still hope that a community OmniOS will get
> going (we've offered to contribute engineering resource as have others)
> and we can make the switch.
> 
> Since we use LX zones to an extent, SmartOS is the other route we are
> evaluating at the moment.
> 


not to join forces seem to be a pitty ... how about hosting that fork on
https://github.com/omniosorg and starting to accept PRs there

at least from what I can see there is a total lack of communication from omniti
regarding how they envision that transition of omnios to community maintainership

so I guess we have to take the initiative.

I have had a look at smartos, for kvm and lx it would be great but it seems that serving smb, nfs and iscsi
is not a focus on joyents side (but maybe I have just not looked correctly).

there is a gitter chat associated with the github omniosorg repo
https://gitter.im/omniosorg/Lobby



cheers
tobi

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