Hi Giovanni,
Well, like whom? Also, what do 'we' want the roadmap to propose to us?
We already have the "new features" web pages from OpenSoalris 2009.06 to
2010.06, updates from the Oracle Xorg team, Sun Studio compiler team notes, and
ON flag days info. If you spin up the other projects and communities - much of
the 'OpenSolaris roadmap' is already on the whiteboard.
Many of the Oracle Sun engineers have commented on
both the status of OpenSolaris (see OpenSolaris IRC and past emails)
and Oracle's corporate position on future outlook.
Oracle has a support roadmap for OpenSolaris last I checked as well as
for the legacy Sun products. The old OpenSolaris 2009.06 main support was
ending somewhere around Y2012 and finally ending in Y2014.
Oracle has mentioned that OpenSolaris project is the building block to Oracle
Solaris 11 (which was just an unspecific arrangement of raindrops at the
moment). Many features added and few features dropped - but nothing set in
stone or really defined yet to the public. All you see is the
proposed notes from the "What's New for OpenSolaris 2010.06" web pages and
updates from the new Sun Studio Compiler Express. A few other other notes
sprinkled elsewhere may give clues and certain OpenSolaris projects being
maintained or updated.
The OpenSolaris project will exist for now - at least until the next Oracle
Solaris 11 product becomes a reality.
One point I like to make is that the real "OpenSolaris" community concern
should exist around the availability and valid compiling of the core
OpenSolaris kernel environment. Can you get a "working" compiled kernel
snapshot as of today based on snv_142 using GCC/Sun Studio - which in turn work
on a larger distro like Milak or EON? As long as Oracle is providing the
OpenSolaris kernel and the updates to it, the road only needs to direct us to
Oracle Solaris 11 from that point. The OpenSolaris distro is just a collection
of compilable raindrops - of projects and proposed features.
Sidenote: Even in small corporations, you can't maintain a staff of engineers
and technicians with just pizza and soda (hey, those were the days). They have
to at least be able to afford Internet connectivity and overhead expenses like
bus/train fare. So best way to get help is either talk to the available Oracle
engineers willing to chat and help - or grab yourself an Oracle Account Manager
with an Etch-A-Sketch.
Shake often,
~ Ken Mays
--- On Thu, 6/10/10, Giovanni Tirloni <gtirl...@sysdroid.com> wrote:
> From: Giovanni Tirloni <gtirl...@sysdroid.com>
> Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Sun Software Product Map- opensolaris not included
> To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
> Date: Thursday, June 10, 2010, 7:33 AM
> "My Oracle Support" lists OpenSolaris
> and Solaris products.
>
> "My Oracle Support Community" only lists Solaris under
> "Oracle Sun Technologies".
>
> They are probably not making a distinction between Solaris
> (product) and the OpenSolaris binary distribution
> (product).
>
> As far as OpenSolaris.org (the open source project) is
> concerned, nothing of this matters. Oracle still needs to
> dedicate some time to communicate properly.
>
> --
> Giovanni
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