Indiana, here we come - fireworks abound!
I'm really lucky - this is the 2nd time there's been a major OpenSolaris event around my birthday (the last time was when we integrated a new filesystem) and while this isn't ZFS, you could argue that for OpenSolaris as a whole, it's nearly as important.
The Indiana developer preview was released last night, and Dublin celebrates: these were the scenes around Raheny earlier -
(ok, I guess they're saving the big fireworks for the main release!)
The folks who working on getting this out have been putting in long hours, and I'm thrilled that they did so. Yes, it'll have bugs, yes it might be controversial in places, but the fact that this happened all outside the Sun firewall, on opensolaris.org, on time, and is totally redistributable is a definitive milestone for OpenSolaris and a credit to the community of development engineers, test engineers, program managers and all other associated support people involved. If you see any of them in the street, please drag them to the nearest bar and buy them a beer.
I stayed up till 2am last night, hoping to post this - but I guess my body clock's just not on Guam time :-) I know, I'm such a lightweight!
"but the fact that this happened all outside the Sun firewall"
Nonsense. Ian came down and said "This will be called OpenSolaris" and it was so...
Posted by JohnS on November 01, 2007 at 08:10 AM GMT #
Er, I wanted it to be called OpenSolaris too, it wasn't just Ian.
Posted by Tim Foster on November 01, 2007 at 08:15 AM GMT #
And that's fine. I disagree with the name, and I'd vote no if it were ever put to a vote... but my complaint is that they didn't even bother to do that about such a monumental issue
Posted by JohnS on November 01, 2007 at 08:33 AM GMT #
Okay - so do get in touch with indiana-discuss or trademark-policy-dev discuss (and as everyone else seems to be doing, mail /both/ aliases, throwing in opensolaris-discuss, advocacy-discuss and ogb-discuss, just for good measure :-/ ) but do make your views known. If there was enough groundswell of interest, maybe a vote would happen - I don't know.
My take - Sun owns the OpenSolaris trademark and can do what it will, if that resulted in Indiana being moved back in-house as a result of a "no" vote, then that would be bad for the community.
Posted by 192.18.128.5 on November 01, 2007 at 09:29 AM GMT #
(for the record, the above comment was mine - I forgot to fill in the id fields, sorry)
Posted by Tim Foster on November 01, 2007 at 10:03 AM GMT #