Hello Caimaniacs,
We started this project in November 2006[1] with the purpose of
modernizing Solaris installation, which was really a ground-up redesign
to meet modern requirements utilizing the tremendous advances made in
Solaris file systems, systems management, packaging and networking in
Solaris 10 and later releases. We did that, and shipped Solaris 11 last
fall as planned, having shipped three OpenSolaris releases and Solaris
11 Express along the way. Throughout, we ran this project as much in
the open as possible, with open source code for both the main project
and sub-projects, open engineering meetings and all the engineering
design work taking place on this mailing list. I've enjoyed that
experience immensely and appreciated the contributions of the community
outside the Solaris engineering organization during our development. I
think I can safely say that sentiment is shared by the rest of the team.
From today, this will be changing somewhat. We've moved the source
for the installers into the OS/Net (aka ON) consolidation, which is not
an open source tree at this time. The merge with ON has been in my
plans for the project from the earliest days, as over the long term it
will help simplify the integrations between the installers and the core
OS features that they use, and minimize the inadvertent breakages of the
installers that have long occurred due to projects integrating in ON
without understanding the impacts on installation. We finally found a
good time to make this move.
As a side-effect, the caiman-discuss mailing list will no longer be our
venue for project engineering discussion and activity, so it'll be a lot
quieter here than it's been for the past 6 years. We're not closing
down this mailing list, though; it'll remain open as a venue for the
Solaris community to contact us with questions on the installation
technologies, similar to zfs-discuss or zones-discuss, and we'll
continue to be responsive to such questions.
My thanks to all who've contributed to the Caiman project over the years.
Dave
[1]http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-November/021714.html
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