[OmniOS-discuss] To the OmniOS Community

[Andries Annema]

It seems indeed you did shake things up a bit.

To give my two cents in this: I am happy to help! Although I am not a 
developer - sysadmin at most, and even that is not my *primary* everyday 
function - I am always eager to learn.

My current state/skills regarding OmniOS (since 2014):

* am running two LTS (r151014 for now) boxes at home,

* non-global zones (LX zones not yet),

* KVM,

* some bash scripting skills (not even close to being an ace though),

* have done some compiling and IPS packaging while hosting it on a 
personal repo (but compiling skills are still novice)

* was/am planning to start using some Illumos-distro (preferably OmniOS) 
at my boss' office - where I'm the sysadmin - but as a result of these 
late developments I am investigating alternatives (ZFS-on-Linux, Docker, 
...) as well.

* willing to do some testing too - not too much on my production 
machines though, but I can setup some physical or virtual test environment.

* oh, and have been using Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, OpenSUSE) since 2011.

I sincerely hope we can keep this thing going.

Regards,

Andries

On 2017-05-15 11:36, Michael Mounteney wrote:
> It seems my rather pessimistic assessment has started something going.
> We have several volunteers making offers of various skills and I'm
> happy to join them.  My skills are:
>
> * Programming in C, C++, Java, Bash but not PHP.
>
> * Home-user level sysadmin (configure dovecot, DHCP, NAT, KVM etc.
>    without necessarily fully understanding what I'm doing).
>
> * Testing, provided failure won't destroy data or cause other
>    non-recoverable errors.
>
> We still need a leader/coordinator.  Theo, would Robert allow you to do
> that in company time?  He did say "while some of our staff may continue
> contributing" which kind of implies that he might.  That would really
> help, because it's quite obvious to me that unless a serious company
> stands behind OmniOS, the big guns that are prepared to pay $10ks a
> year for maintenance will go elsewhere.
>
> The next step is the establishment of some sort of foundation or
> committee to coordinate the efforts of the volunteers.
>
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