Happy, Happy Birthday from all of us to you……. OpenSolaris is 2. Just like a child, it feels like much longer than that and you’re not quite sure what you did before they arrived.
The last year has been a good one for us. A lot of growing pains still, but we’re getting our footing and growing. The OGB has finally been replaced with a proper board. The code has surpased the number of builds leading up to Solaris 10′s initial GA. The community ranks continue to grow.
When I look a head I see a very different set of goal than we’ve had in the last 2 years. And I see a lot of new hope. I think the key now needs to be diversity and new offerings. We need to gain more acceptance among established Solaris shops and still reach out to new users who have been interested in Solaris yet reluctant. We need to do things in a fresh and new way…
And if you read that last paragraph 3 times fast it blurs into Project Indiana. There has been a lot of useless debate and chatter about Indiana but I don’t see anything to discuss… it must happen or we’ll die. We all know that big change is due, but when will it come? How will it come? The divisions I’ve seen over Indiana are almost religious: “Change needs to come! The time is at hand!” “Ya, but thats not it” “No, actually this is it!” “Um… no, we’ll wait.” But the best thing about Indiana is that it will be community owned and seperate from Solaris GA releases, so both groups are right.
What we’ve found in the last 2 years is that killer features like DTrace, ZFS, and SMF are exciting to people, but simply not enough to attract and keep people. A large community of people are waiting for our technologies to be integrated with their OS of choice, whether it be OS X or FreeBSD or Linux. They are checking out the technology and then going back and waiting. Lets learn from this please! If we want real traction we must embrase the future, and the future, at least v1.0 of it, is Project Indiana. And thats what will happen before we turn 3.
Oh….. I should point out what I think was a big accomplishment in our 2nd year: Joyent embraced the community and started hiring admins out of the community. Thats a good sign of growth and acceptance and as a company when we sell our product we’re selling people on OpenSolaris, and we’re glad to be the first company to do so.
While trying to find out what the heck this fabled “project Indiana” is, i stumbled upon it’s inception on the Open Solaris boards… This thread illustrates one of the things that I feel is awkward about the Open Solaris project: project management is dealt with in a very bureaucratic way. The first page of the thread that’s supposed to be about Indiana just goes on and on about the OGB and what has or hasn’t been said or decided about procedures and such.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for procedures and handling things in a serious and organised manner… But this is just ridicilous.
Now… Apparently Project Indiana is a binary distribution of Open Solaris; I’d say “Go for it!”. But then I get confused… Wasn’t there one already?
Ah! I checked and I was right: there are already a bunch of Open Solaris distribution, just not one that’s officially supported by the OBG. Oh joy…
Why do we feel the need to immitate one of IMNSHO Linux’s biggest downsides: a growing number of varying distributions? I’d love to see all the OSol distro folks pull together into the Indiana project, thus ensuring two things:
1. An official OSol distro
2. -One- OSol distro
Wow… Did I kill this thread? o_O
/me looks for signs of blood
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Very interesting article: “OpenSolaris Turns 2″