Hi, I'd like to help with some work on the OI platform, I'm using it successfully on several different machines and am very impressed.
However one serious problem I've hit so far, is that the guide to compiling things doesn't actually work very well. IO, Illumos, ONNV, JDS, Sunstudio, GCC 3, GCC 4 and so on. Each seem to have an arcane list of commands to follow and even then it doesn't work. I.e. I've got Illumos to compile but the install part (onu?) fails completely on mine. If someone who knows what it takes to make a full build environment for Illumos and OpenIndiana, could make an IPS package, that would I expect get some more interest in helping out. At the moment, it is just so damn hard to get started if you come from a Linux/Windows dev environment, that I suspect most people give up and go work on an easier to help project. In an ideal world, I could grab the OI text installer, then use pfexec pkg install IOBuildEnv, change into a directory, make install and be able to run with an own built OI. Then fixing bugs and writing new drivers, etc could happen much easier. Thanks, Deano -----Original Message----- From: Guido Berhoerster [mailto:g...@openindiana.org] Sent: 13 December 2010 13:12 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] openindiana state * Edward Martinez <mindbende...@live.com> [2010-12-13 05:28]: > As a OpenIndiana user I'm curious what is the present state of the > OpenIndiana project? OpenIndiana b148 will be released real soon now, yesterday we discovered some showstoppers which have been fixed. For the next release we will focus on replacing Oracle's ONNV with Illumos which will likely take a bit of time given our limited manpower. > The reason I'm asking is because I have noticed a decline of > activity in the mailing lists compared to when the project first > started and OpenIndiana's home website has not really been It just means nobody has volunteered to improve it, most of us are working on the actual distribution. We will try to make it easier for people to get involved, however despite the large interest in the project so far very few people have shown interest in actually doing work on the project. So if anybody is interested in contributing feel free to contact us on oi-...@openindiana.org or #oi-dev on IRC. Contributions do not have to be purely technical, e.g. help with marketing including improvements to the main website or documentation would all be appreciated as well and probably speed up development pace. -- Guido Berhoerster _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
