On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 02:01:07PM -0700, "C. Bergström" wrote: > Gary Mills wrote: > > If this information is correct, > > > > http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=133043 > > > > further development of ZFS will take place behind closed doors. > > Opensolaris will become the internal development version of Solaris > > with no public distributions. The community has been abandoned. > > > It was a community of system administrators and nearly no developers. > While this may make big news the real impact is probably pretty small. > Source code updates will get tossed over the fence and developer > partners (Intel) will still have access to onnv-gate.
I'm interested to see how this plays out in actuality. It almost sounded like source code wouldn't necessarily be shared until major release were made... which would obviously make it hard for third party ZFS vendors to "keep up" in the interim. I guess most of this is still hear-say at this point, but if you've read somewhere where Oracle has stated they plan to continuously share source code and updates throughout their development processes (not just at release time), it'd be good to see... > > In a way i see this as a very good thing. It will not *force* the > existing (small) community of companies and developers to band together > to actually work together. From there the real open source momentum can > happen instead of everyone depending on Sun/Oracle to give them a free > lunch. The first step that I've been adamant about is making it easier > for developers to play and get their hands on it.. If "we" can enable > that it'll swing things around regardless of what mega-corp does or > doesn't do... > > Just my 0.02$ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
