Re: [oi-dev] Resignation

2014-09-13 Thread Peter
- Original message - On 12 September 2014 17:28, Peter j...@zeus.net.au wrote: That's rich, a project with no stable release baseline to measure binary compatibility against won't accept patches unless ... Actually, our stated goal of FCS quality all the time means that we intend

Re: [oi-dev] Resignation

2014-09-13 Thread Joshua M. Clulow
On 13 September 2014 00:23, Peter j...@zeus.net.au wrote: Building and testing only on the developers computer before integration isn't sufficient to be considered stable and those who would contribute, don't have the resources to test widely enough to satisfy the stable contribution only

Re: [oi-dev] Resignation

2014-09-13 Thread Alexander Pyhalov
Hello. I'd like to say that upstream illumos-gate is stable and is the least our problem. We've seen only 3 breakages in a year: 1) DTrace change which required additional patching for some software (IIRC mysql, mariadb, percona and perl DTrace providers were affected) 2) One change in ipv6

Re: [oi-dev] Resignation

2014-09-13 Thread Peter
Blame is as useful as ignorance and accusation. Perhaps this is the right development model for this project. I genuinely hope that OI and Illumos succeed. With regards to sparc, as much as I like the modular Solaris kernel, Dtrace etc, it makes more sense on this occassion to investigate