> So all we need to direct some of the money we already spend for > supporting developers and certain developments to core ZFS developers no > longer employed by Sun/Oracle and that way make FreeBSD the primary ZFS > development platform for the future. If you have the key developers, the > community will follow. >
I'd argue that we'll need pjd@ more than ever. I don't think that ex-OpenSolaris contributors are going to jump to FreeBSD. There's project Illumos which is essentially an OpenSolaris fork minus binary-only bits. My guess is that it's got a decent chance to become a viable OpenSolaris replacement. Interestingly enough, Illumos plans to import FreeBSD drivers (and some utils) to replace closed-source ones that used to come from Solaris. --Artem On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Oliver Brandmueller <o...@e-gitt.net> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:47:00AM -0700, Xin LI wrote: >> It's not "gone" since Oracle can not withdraw code that is already >> licensed under CDDL. They _may_ choose not to release anything new but >> we already have a newer zfs version that have basic functionality usable >> in p4. > > So all we need to direct some of the money we already spend for > supporting developers and certain developments to core ZFS developers no > longer employed by Sun/Oracle and that way make FreeBSD the primary ZFS > development platform for the future. If you have the key developers, the > community will follow. > > Before someone starts argueing... I know, it's not that easy and I don't > have a clue how one would do that. This is most probably more like a > crazy idea than a plan that could actually work :-/ > > - Oliver > > -- > | Oliver Brandmueller http://sysadm.in/ o...@sysadm.in | > | Ich bin das Internet. Sowahr ich Gott helfe. | > _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"