Gary Driggs <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Aug 3, 2013, at 3:08 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
> It seems that we need to set up some kind of register about who is working
> on what for OpenSolaris
>
>
> Something more detailed than this?
> http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/Distributions

Sure!

This also does not seem to be correct, as it lists OnmiOS as an Illumos based 
distro, but is this was true, Omnios did just have a broken od implementation 
in /usr/bin instead of no od implementation.

As mentioned several times before, in November 2010, Illumos decided not to 
collaborate with other developers and in addition ignored a rejected code 
review for a broken od implementation that in turn was added to the illumos 
code base despite a known list of several bugs.

For this reasons, illumos failed to become the community OpenSolaris successor.
There are several similar disjunct continuation projects with different goals. 

SchilliX-ON exists since Garret DAmore made obvious that he is not willing to 
collaborate and after he added his buggy od.c sourcecode. SchilliX-ON among 
others supports compressed SVr4 packages that can be directly installed from 
the network for Intel and Sparc since February 2011.

What OpenSolaris needs is a list of development activities that would allow 
people to know what other people do and what probably could be taken from 
others.

Jörg

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