On 22/02/2013 13:51, Jim Klimov wrote:
Also, is there some required or sufficient amount of progress in illumos-gate alone (i.e. Saso's new ZFS features, recent integrated driver updates and generic features and bugfixes contributed by many developers) to warrant creation of a new (pre-)release?
A couple of very recent fixes to nfs, e.g. https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/aea676fd5203d93bed37515d4f405d6a31c21509 or zfs, e.g. <https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/03f8c366886542ed249a15d755ae78ea4e775d9d> and numerous others are important fixes that would justify at least a prelease. OI should not fall into the trap the "support-line" OSol felt into when selecting only a few fixes from mainline, missing important ones (and not committing back fixes from "support-line" to mainline), which made that Osol release track nearly unusable in the end.... Reviewed and committed Illumos fixes should be considered as stable enough to be included at least in a prestable release. And, as 151a7 runs very stable now, an aged and proven 151a8 prerelease should finally culminate in a new major release, which generates some good news to spread and may attracts more new users and, hopefully, some more developers (especially from industry). -- Dr.Udo Grabowski Inst.f.Meteorology a.Climate Research IMK-ASF-SAT www.imk-asf.kit.edu/english/sat.php KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology http://www.kit.edu Postfach 3640,76021 Karlsruhe,Germany T:(+49)721 608-26026 F:-926026
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