Hi Jeremy,
I'm sure everyone would love to see Solaris open sourced again. I know I
do! But unfortunately, it's not something within my power or control.
However, there is the reality that OpenStack wouldn't be as successful
without commercial companies contributing to it. A good example is all
of the excellent work done in Cinder and Neutron, where we have hundreds
of drivers for networking gear, SDNs, NAS/SAN storage, etc. In those
cases, none of those products that those drivers are written for are
open sourced and they meet less resistance to committing code upstream.
So I have to call BS on your comment that the community can't work with
us because Solaris isn't open sourced.
Now for Oracle, we definitely need more 3rd party CI to make it easier
to test our drivers, components, and patches against so that it's easier
for the community to validate things. However, it takes time, resources,
and money to make that happen. Hopefully that will get sorted out over
time. But even if we make all of the investments in setting that up, we
still need the upstream teams to come to the table and not shun us away
just because we are Oracle :)
Octave
On 5/6/2017 6:26 AM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
On 2017-05-05 15:35:16 -0600 (-0600), Octave J. Orgeron wrote:
[...]
If it's in support of Oracle specific technologies such as Solaris,
[...]
we are often shunned away because it's not Linux or "mainstream"
enough. A great example is how our Nova drivers for Solaris Zones,
Kernel Zones, and LDoms are turned away. So we have to spend extra
cycles maintaining our patches because they are shunned away from
getting into the gate.
[...]
Hopefully I'm not hitting a sore spot here, but bring back
OpenSolaris and the answer becomes simpler. The Microsoft and VMWare
devs have similar challenges in this regard because if you attempt
to combine your proprietary software with our free software, then
it's not something we're going to be able to test upstream (and the
burden to prove that it's working and soundly maintained is
substantially greater than if what you're integrating is also free
software).
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