Hi all, As there is a lot of questions on the mailinglists about the future of Nexenta, hidden plans, state of the repository, roadmap and other things, and as I'm one of the core contributors of Nexenta Project, I will try to answer few things and clarify some of the concerns. Note that I'm trying to clarify only the concerns I'm 100% sure with the answer:
First of all, Nexenta Core Team does not do PR very often, our apologies for this, we are all rather busy and doing Nexenta Development part time as the real opensource, so bear with us. Second, we are transitioning the backing infrastructure of the Nexenta Project to the new machine, and on the go we are cleaning several things that need to be cleaned up. The goal of this is to: 1. Make http://nexenta.org main web page of Nexenta Project. 2. Get rid of Gnu and Solaris everywhere, as these are registered trademarks and we don't want anyone to get angry at us. 3. Radically simplify package fix/upload cycle to get more people involved and get more fixes upstream. We have found in the past this to be a main blocker for the people to contribute/fix more packages. The outcome of the transition is that no new things are being uploaded to the old repository for quite some time (repository is stuck at Alpha7) and as the development of Nexenta Core Platform (NCP in short) continues some packages that are at install CD are missing in old repository. People don't like us for this, but please remember, *this is alpha stuff* use at your own risk :-) Don't worry, in order to get more people involved we have decided to concentrate on things that are stable, and thus produce Nexenta Core Platform version 1.0 in order to : 1. mark that we are no longer alpha 2. have a stable release where people can play and where people can add new stuff, we have chosen Dapper Drake to be the base, since it's gonna be supported for quite some years more. 3. see how new packages can be maintained, X + gnome + other things is just too much for a few folks to be kept stable. We need your help here. The exact selection of packages that will go to NCP 1.0 is being discussed and will be clarified later. As we don't want to loose our productive time taking care of the infrastructure, we have decided to go for launchpad.net as the project management and bug tracking tool for ongoing nexenta development. So the action item for all of you who care about future of nexenta is to go to launchpad.net, get yourself an account and start working with us. You will see that some things are already popping up there :-) http://launchpad.net/nexenta Until we are moved to the http://nexenta.org, please use the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailinglist for relevant and productive discussion.... thanx for listening, Martin -- http://martinman.net _______________________________________________ gnusol-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-devel
