Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-20 Thread Weiergräber, Oliver H.
Hmm, maybe the situation is not that bad after all... Consider the recent OI releases, each containing hundreds of updated packages with respect to the previous one. I didn't track this in detail, but it seems very likely that many of these updates also addressed security issues. That would

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-20 Thread Roel_D
Funny discussion!! It's like being in the Oracle boardroom around the time they took over Sun. Do we close the code? Who will develop? Who can develop? Who will fund it? How to manage the roadmap? What we do forget is that installing an OS can take 1 to 180 minutes. But maintaining it and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-19 Thread Weiergräber, Oliver H.
list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap On Mon, 18 Feb 2013, Jesus Cea wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/01/13 02:43, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Jesus Cea wrote: Is out there an OpenIndiana Roadmap?. In particular

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-19 Thread Udo Grabowski (IMK)
On 19/02/2013 12:41, Weiergräber, Oliver H. wrote: Moreover, providing security fixes has been a defined goal of OpenIndiana right from the beginning. See the FAQ: Q: Will OpenIndiana provide security and bug fixes to their stable releases? A: Yes, absolutely. We view this as one of the key

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-19 Thread Milan Jurik
: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 2:52 AM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap On Mon, 18 Feb 2013, Jesus Cea wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/01/13 02:43, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Jesus Cea wrote: Is out

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-19 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/19/2013 12:41 PM, Weiergräber, Oliver H. wrote: Moreover, providing security fixes has been a defined goal of OpenIndiana right from the beginning. See the FAQ: Q: Will OpenIndiana provide security and bug fixes to their stable releases? A: Yes, absolutely. We view this as one of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-19 Thread Weiergräber, Oliver H.
PM To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap On 02/19/2013 12:41 PM, Weiergräber, Oliver H. wrote: Moreover, providing security fixes has been a defined goal of OpenIndiana right from the beginning. See the FAQ: Q: Will OpenIndiana provide

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-19 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-02-19 13:25, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: It might seem like a fine idea for a business, but for me this is a deal breaker. I have lots of OI systems, some for personal use, some for business use, and all of them need security fixes. I don't want to have to pay for support on machines which

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-19 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/19/2013 02:23 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: I believe RedHat and its spin-offs (Fedora as a bleeding edge experiment, and CentOS as a rebadged clone) have set a nice example here, especially the latter. All the source is open as GPL requires, and AFAIK CentOS is a rebuild of the same code in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-19 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-02-19 14:38, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: You don't get access to RedHat's repos without paying. There are some portions of the code that CentOS doesn't ship (such as the policy enforcement libraries). In this respect, RHEL is closer to what Solaris was before the Oracle takeover (a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-19 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/19/2013 03:12 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2013-02-19 14:38, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: You don't get access to RedHat's repos without paying. There are some portions of the code that CentOS doesn't ship (such as the policy enforcement libraries). In this respect, RHEL is closer to what Solaris

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-19 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-02-19 16:38, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: I'm tired of this discussion. In short, if OI were to reverse on its open-development promise, it will lead to its demise. It's not like there aren't alternatives available. I am not trying to discourage or disprove of any solution. I don't argue for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-19 Thread dormitionsk...@hotmail.com
Fact #1 - The OI Community seems to be filled with a whole lot more people asking for features than there are developers to implement them. Some of these are reasonable requests, too, but there just simply aren't that many people actually working on OI to make them all possible even if the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-19 Thread Dave McGuire
On 02/19/2013 12:10 PM, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: Fact #1 - The OI Community seems to be filled with a whole lot more people asking for features than there are developers to implement them. Some of these are reasonable requests, too, but there just simply aren't that many people

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-19 Thread James Relph
If you want security updates, there's no reason why some of you can't get together and start your own business offering these updates for a fee. OI is open source. You wouldn't necessarily have to start your own distribution, although you could do that, too. But the code base is out

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-19 Thread dormitionsk...@hotmail.com
On Feb 19, 2013, at 10:26 AM, James Relph wrote: If you want security updates, there's no reason why some of you can't get together and start your own business offering these updates for a fee. OI is open source. You wouldn't necessarily have to start your own distribution, although you

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-19 Thread Dmitry Kozhinov
If you want security updates, there's no reason why some of you can't get together and start your own business offering these updates for a fee. OI is open source. You wouldn't necessarily have to start your own distribution, although you could do that, too. But the code base is out there.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-19 Thread dormitionsk...@hotmail.com
Oh, and by the way - some of the problems with recruiting at universities are: 1) the students tend to be busy with their studies, 2) they are still in the process of acquiring the skills, 3) they lack experience, and 4) they tend to want to make a lot right off if you're considering hiring

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-18 Thread Jesus Cea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/01/13 02:43, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Jesus Cea wrote: Is out there an OpenIndiana Roadmap?. In particular, I am VERY interested in a security supported version. How much are you willing to pay for this service?

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-18 Thread Reginald Beardsley
--- On Mon, 2/18/13, Jesus Cea j...@jcea.es wrote: From: Jesus Cea j...@jcea.es Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Date: Monday, February 18, 2013, 11:47 AM -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-18 Thread Ian Collins
Jesus Cea wrote: On 28/01/13 02:43, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Jesus Cea wrote: Is out there an OpenIndiana Roadmap?. In particular, I am VERY interested in a security supported version. How much are you willing to pay for this service? Oracle charges $1k/year per socket. I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-02-18 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 18 Feb 2013, Jesus Cea wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/01/13 02:43, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Jesus Cea wrote: Is out there an OpenIndiana Roadmap?. In particular, I am VERY interested in a security supported version. How much are you

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-01-29 Thread Martin Bochnig
)))THANK YOU) Sorry, last msg. for today before the upload completes, must pack boxes w/o accidently touching the half-broken dsl cable. off the screen now ... %martin On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Frank Lahm frankl...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/1/29 Martin Bochnig mar...@martux.org:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-01-29 Thread Martin Bochnig
Or still one thing that troubles me: Everybody who ever donates to this project goes into a dedicated SPONSORS section. Ken Mays already offered us to help with our wiki and web-page. This means we will have a nice site quite soon :) Based on the other slide-show and web-page that I had prepped

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-01-29 Thread Jerry Kemp
Martin, Is there any way to provide funds other than paypal? I'm in the States, if that makes any difference. Either way, thank you for all your efforts towards SPARC, they are appreciated. Jerry On 01/29/13 01:11 AM, Volker A. Brandt wrote: Reginald Beardsley writes: I'd like to suggest

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-01-29 Thread openbabel
On 28/01/2013 13:55, Dmitry Kozhinov wrote: How much are you willing to pay for this service? Correct me if I am wrong, but roadmap and paid services are different things. The fact that OI is an open source and community driven project does not mean a no roadmap strategy. - Dmitry.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-01-29 Thread James Relph
As I understand it the strategy was always to encourage the proliferation of solution providers and integrators to fulfill this function.These It was thought would form in the market where a stable release,sufficient development had taken place to provide significant market penetration and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-01-29 Thread James Relph
Which is fine to some extent, but what that has led to are a lot of quite specific solutions for situations not everyone is in (SmartOS is obviously heavily cloud-oriented) or companies very focussed on selling (not necessarily cheap) support. I'd quite like to see OpenIndiana thrive as a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-01-28 Thread Nikola M.
On 01/28/13 02:43 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Jesus Cea wrote: Is out there an OpenIndiana Roadmap?. In particular, I am VERY interested in a security supported version. How much are you willing to pay for this service? Oracle charges $1k/year per socket. Yes, support

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-01-28 Thread Dmitry Kozhinov
How much are you willing to pay for this service? Correct me if I am wrong, but roadmap and paid services are different things. The fact that OI is an open source and community driven project does not mean a no roadmap strategy. - Dmitry. ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-01-28 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Dmitry Kozhinov wrote: How much are you willing to pay for this service? Correct me if I am wrong, but roadmap and paid services are different things. The fact that OI is an open source and community driven project does not mean a no roadmap strategy. I was referring

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-01-28 Thread James Relph
This sort of thing is more easily done if the people doing the work receive compensation for it rather than doing the work in their spare time from a different paying job. If there was an OpenIndiana Foundation which could receive contributions/payments, then it would be possible to pay

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-01-28 Thread Reginald Beardsley
--- On Mon, 1/28/13, James Relph ja...@themacplace.co.uk wrote: From: James Relph ja...@themacplace.co.uk Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Date: Monday, January 28, 2013, 11:31 AM This sort

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-01-28 Thread James Relph
Would a Kickstarter project to fund an OI support group be possible? The problem is you need a certain level of commitments to justify setting up a support operation. I was quite happy to pay Sun for a 3 year Gold level contract on my Ultra 20 when I bought it. $250/yr to fund

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-01-28 Thread Reginald Beardsley
--- On Mon, 1/28/13, James Relph ja...@themacplace.co.uk wrote: From: James Relph ja...@themacplace.co.uk Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Date: Monday, January 28, 2013, 4:49 PM Would

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-01-28 Thread Volker A. Brandt
Reginald Beardsley writes: I'd like to suggest funding Martin. He's committed and needs the money. Even as little as $50US per site would certainly help him a lot. +1 Is there someone who can get him online to discuss this? That is a problem. Martin, please speak up! Regards -- Volker --

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-01-28 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Volker A. Brandt v...@bb-c.de wrote: Reginald Beardsley writes: I'd like to suggest funding Martin. He's committed and needs the money. Even as little as $50US per site would certainly help him a lot. +1 Is there someone who can get him online to discuss

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-01-27 Thread Jesus Cea
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

2013-01-27 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Jesus Cea wrote: Is out there an OpenIndiana Roadmap?. In particular, I am VERY interested in a security supported version. How much are you willing to pay for this service? Oracle charges $1k/year per socket. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us,