On Wed, 01 Aug 2018, goli...@dyne.org wrote: > I understand that. I didn't say not to discuss the Slackware > situation. It's just that Devuan communications, except for the > forum, have gone to less than a trickle. Would be nice to have some > energy going into Beowulf etc. Yes, I know many are on holiday in > August but not that much has happened since the stable release. > Hoping things might pickup a bit.
I believe a community dynamic is healthy when solidarity replaces competition: in our case Slackware and Gentoo are not competitors, but venerable projects that can share valuable experience and also upstream tools with Devuan, while they have a larger user base and common goals and ethics. If any of such projects raises an emergency flag, we are called to exercise solidarity even beyond the understandable latency of vacation periods. That's what I felt like doing, while reading online sporadically once per week. About beowulf the first step to help is start running it, only this way we can find problems. Or in your case start thinking of a design approach for it :^) I think you are running ahead with that already. I run Beowulf since the ASCII stable release, other devs as well. The only problem I have is with the ZFS modules compiled with DKMS, haven't had time to investigate that, but suspect people more expert than me on ZFS internals may have already proposed solutions on the devuan-dev list. All the above considered, I think you are right to call all of us to stick to our mission and nurture our project. Sometimes I wonder how solidarity is perceived by big-fish eat-it-all distros like Debian or Ubuntu: what if they would take a less solipsistic approach, recognise young efforts like Devuan as a distro that saved a good portion of their user base and nurture it by means of infrastructure and donations? The world of FOSS would be a better place. Rather than complain about their competing behavior, I believe we are called to show how to improve our communities. Our solidarity to Slackware is a call to everyone, to care about each other and to be excellent to each other. ciao! -- Denis Roio a.k.a. Jaromil http://Dyne.org think &do tank Ph.D, CTO & co-founder software to empower communities ⚷ crypto κρυπτο крипто गुप्त् 加密 האנוסים المشفره GnuPG: 6113D89C A825C5CE DD02C872 73B35DA5 4ACB7D10 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng