On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Edward Ned Harvey <solar...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > > So the clarification, I guess, would be: > > In the kernel and/or ZFS, present development efforts, what proportion is > oracle-funded versus other-funded or un-funded community contributions?
Most of it, I expect. There are some external drivers and utilities in the source tree. I would expect, though, that the proportion of "community" (whether it's from OpenSolaris or some other community) contributed effort rises quite sharply as you move out from the kernel - not only is a lot of that code imported from outside (Sun/Oracle contributing to those projects and being largely an integrator into OpenSolaris) but of course it gets a lot easier to actually make some sort of contribution in the userland or desktop areas. > With the goal being a vague and relative (possibly irrelevant) estimate of > how much the development of opensolaris depends on oracle funding. Again, it depends on your definition of OpenSolaris. If you mean the kernel, then critically dependent - and you're unlikely to put together a top-notch team of kernel engineers to replace Oracle either easily or cheaply. If you mean *the* distro, then Sun clearly wanted to exclude outside contributions and Oracle haven't improved, but it's clearly possible to build your own. If you mean the (wider) community and ecosystem, then there's really very little actual dependency. Although there is - to me at least - a worrying trend where many in the community have made themselves dependent on Oracle. Witness all the moaning about delays to a proprietary non-community release coupled with simultaneous whining about lack of openness. If you want openness, people, then roll up your sleeves and get involved with Nexenta/Belenix/Milax and the other distros, or find some interesting problem and go at it. (And kudos to Ned for finding an interesting problem and having a go. We need more effort like that.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
