> A related issue however is the apparent lack of ownership over the wiki.

In terms of ownership, EveryCity is providing free hosting of various bits of 
OpenIndiana physical infrastructure, but it's down to the OpenIndiana project 
to determine who has ownership. There is a gulf here that nobody has stepped up 
to fill after my resignation.

Keith Wesolowski quipped a joke about OI, referring to it as the Bernie Lomax 
distribution, which I think is quite apt:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekend_at_Bernie's

I don't think the project is going to succeed unless the various interested 
parties come together and figure out who is responsible for what. People are 
going to have to step up and take responsibility, otherwise it's just a lot of 
complaining and hot air about how nothing is happening.

Regarding the wiki directly, various people, myself included, have admin 
accounts and can create more. If you're volunteering, I'm happy to set you up 
with one. If you want access to the zone confluence is running in, I can 
provide that also.

Not that I'm involved any more and I largely just lurk, but I think the 
disconnect between /dev and /hipster needs to end. It's confusing.

I have proposed for years now that:

/hipster = rolling release
/dev = snapshots of /hipster
/release = /periodic snapshots of /dev that are considered more stable

For example you could do automatic /dev releases every 2 weeks. /release can 
come out once a year, and in the month running up to a /release, you can focus 
on fixes rather than new features.

Easy, simple.

It does mean /dev and Jon Tibble's effort making way for Andrzej/ALP/etc's 
hipster effort. The first /release could be based on /dev as is now, but after 
that, my personal opinion is that Jon Tibble should help with the hipster 
effort. Perhaps in particular with ensuring quality /release releases and 
managing that bug fixing process.

Also some of the peanut gallery posts on this mailing list make me want to 
throw up. I don't think anyone should be allowed to attend an OI meeting unless 
they have contributed at least X months worth of commits to the OI github 
account. Talk is cheap, and people should have to earn the right to have an 
opinion on how the project is run.

Back when I was project lead, I made the mistake of soliciting input from all 
interested parties, which resulted in enormous weekly meetings with lots of 
talk and no action. It killed the project, as it became mired in indecision and 
a total lack of focus. What is needed is a single minded lazer sharp focus.

The project is on life support. Commit or GTFO.                                 
          
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