Hi All,
I'll allow myself to add my 2 cents...
Alasdair Lumsden wrote:
Hi All,
I'd like to raise the topic of post-151 development.
Jon (Tibble/Meths) - obviously you've been doing great work on the prestable
builds. I think I asked when we should ship to /stable, and basically I got the
impression you weren't comfortable doing that until we had most of the CVEs
fixed and could support it from a security standpoint.
I don't think that's realistic right now, as CVEs are coming out faster than we
can fix them.
So as such, I'd like to propose that one of the next prestables be a candidate
for being shipped to "/release", rather than "/stable" and the notion of /stable
be abandoned for now.
We could do something like aim to push a /release every 6 to 12 months, and we
can aim to backport critical bug and security fixes to it from /dev. But it will
give users a bit of stability and free us up to move /dev forward faster.
That fits in with OpenSolaris, where /release wasn't guaranteed free of security
holes (you had to pay for that). Obviously we can still ship CVE and bug fixes
to it, but it sets realistic expectations and hopefully addresses your concern
with using the name "/stable"
...
Me and my organisation, we're interested in a Solaris replacement OS for some
number of infrastructure servers (mail, dns, directory, web, ...). I've seen
many people using OI as a home desktop or home server. Some people around me
aren't even testing it, but just observing.
I have now two physical machines running OI, not yet in production, but I'm
testing all software I use - I usually compile them myself. And it seems that,
for the moment, all works fine.
I think that to begin being really used there should be a official release, as
suggested by Alasdair. To do this, it could be enough to solve the serious
issues and list the other minors as "known issues". Let's say, solve issues
preventing OI to be used as a production server.
OK, OK, there are more talkers than doers, and I'm one of them... Unfortunately,
I was quite busy in the last four years and I'll still be in the next 6 months,
but I hope I'll be able to dedicate some time sometime in the future to
contribute to oi.
Best regards and thank you very much for the enormous good job done here.
José-Marcio
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