These may help: http://blog.illumos.org/2013/01/07/the-illumos-community-two-videos-from-illumos-day/
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 1:35 PM, alka <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 07.01.2013 um 02:15 schrieb Deirdre Straughan: > > First: > > -* Illumos.org <http://illumos.org/>, where when you click on > dokumentation, you get a "page not found" *- > On what page of illumos.org are you seeing a link to "documentation" ? > > The old RedMine stuff eg > https://www.illumos.org/projects/documentation/wiki/Existing_OpenSolaris_documentationdoes > need to be cleaned up; as far as I know most or all of it is out of > date. Someone else (Garrett?) needs to make a decision on what is still > useful there. > > > > As to your other points: > > You are correct that documentation and content curation for illumos and > family would be a full-time job, and that it is needed (though I don't > agree nor think it likely that material related to each distro should be > centralized). > > At the moment, there is no legal entity which can fund and hire a person > to do this work. When such an entity exists, I would hope that this would > be one of that entity's priorities. > > Keep in mind that the companies you mention as benefiting from illumos > already contribute a great deal to it in the form of code and staff time. > People like Josh Clulow and Robert Mustacchi of Joyent have contributed > hugely to the wiki, in addition to their very busy day jobs writing code > that illumos devs ultimately use. Josh is also now the sole administrator > of the illumos web infrastructure (to which Joyent contributes hosting). > > I am not a dev, but I have contributed a great deal of my working time > (and Joyent's money) to events like http://zfsday.com/ and > http://smartos.org/2012/12/30/dtrace-conf-videos/ - which benefit the > whole community. > > You are also welcome to explore my YouTube channel which contains (as of > today) 542 videos - at least half of which are pertinent to illumos, one > way or another. > > I cannot speak to other companies' contributions, except to say that > they also contribute code - without which, ultimately, we have nothing to > work on or discuss. > > I certainly warmly encourage anyone who can to work on the wiki or any > other form of documentation you like. Let me know if there's anything I can > do to facilitate your work in that regard. > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 11:35 AM, alka <[email protected]> wrote: > >> hi all >> >> have you seen that >> >> - the newest reference on the OpenIndiana Wiki is OI 151a5 with lots of >> bugs instead of 151.a7? >> - Illumos.org, where when you click on dokumentation, you get a "page >> not found" >> - OmniOS, where the wiki even lack basic informations like how to update >> or newer infos at all or basic infos for newbies >> - SmartOS, with a lot of infos but nearly nothing about the common core >> or do something beside cloud. >> - Nexentastor.org. Since the dismiss of Linda - nearly no community help >> - not at all for Illumos, minimal to NexentaStor itself >> >> -- Oracle, the Holy Grail for documentation - its on yourself to decide >> if they are valid for Solaris 10, 11 Express, 11.0, 11.1 or also valid for >> Illumos -more and more NOT !! >> >> >> All the basic infos, core wiki etc should be at Illumos, not at the >> distributions side - they cannot do. >> Why not pay a common communication manager to build a reference that is >> valid for all Illumos based distros - to be a real alternative to Oracle, >> they go their own way.? >> >> Gea >> >> >> *illumos-discuss* | >> Archives<https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now> >> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175496-e0a8025a> | >> Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription >> <http://www.listbox.com/> >> > > > > -- > > > best regards, > Deirdré Straughan > Community Architect, SmartOS > illumos Community Manager > > > cell 720 371 4107 > *illumos-discuss* | > Archives<https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21800550-33316bf7> | > Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com/> > > > - > > The link is on the sub-page http://blog.illumos.org/ > > And yes, you are right, i see a lot of contributions and work on Illumos. > Joyent contributes KVM and Delphix contributes feature flags and Nexenta > contributes also to improve the base of NexentaStor. > Each of them a huge thing - technically. I would not miss all the nice > things. > > But all this contributions are often not done to push a common Illumos > alternative to other options but for the companies interests only. > This was ok in times of Sun and OpenSolaris when Nexenta becomes big but > now the whole Illumos world must compete against BSD, Linux and Windows. > -without Sun/Oracle in the back. Code contribution is needed but as > important is a common position, documentation, public relation work and > contribution to push the Illumos base. > > From outside view, nobody cares about Illumos, you see the medium or > small efforts of all the distributions to document mostly the same.. > Not to say that it is a pity that there are different packaging mechanism > around. That may not hinder if they would share a common repo with same > package names- > indeed this is not the case: another point for someone to coordinate.. > > I know its not that easy. But a Illumos world based only on good will > and community efforts can hardly be the solution. > If I may initiate some sort of thinking "How can we improve the situation" > - I would feel ok > > > best regards and a late Happy New Year > > Gea > napp-it.org > *illumos-discuss* | > Archives<https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175496-e0a8025a> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > -- best regards, Deirdré Straughan Community Architect, SmartOS illumos Community Manager cell 720 371 4107 ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
