----- On Jul 2, 2017, at 12:09 PM, Andy Fiddaman omn...@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 -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland www.oetiker.ch t...@oetiker.ch +41 62 775 9902 _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss
