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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