Re: Call for Foundation-supported Project Ideas

On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 5:02 AM Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> wrote:

> On 23/11/2021 23:41, Joseph Mingrone wrote:
> > Hello FreeBSD community,
> >
> > The Foundation is seeking suggestions for new projects to support.  What
> > gaps in the Project are not being addressed by the broader community?
> >
> > You can read about past Foundation-supported projects at
> > https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/projects/ and the Foundation's
> > four main areas of focus in the 'Technology Roadmap' article at
> > https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/technology-roadmap/.
> >
> > Right now we are gathering ideas.  We will send out a call for project
> > grant proposals soon.  If you prefer to send your project ideas directly
> > to the Foundation, we will be monitoring responses at
> > techteam@freebsdfoundation.org.
>
> I would really like to see Foundation sponsored project to bring SMBv2
> and SMBv3 support in to smbfs in base instead of deprecating smbfs / CIFS.
>
> FreeBSD is the only one widely used operating system lacking support for
> modern SMB / CIFS versions. SMB is still widely used in desktops and
> servers environment for mounting shares between different OSes.
>
> The latest thread from October with this discussion can be found in
> freebsd-current@ archive
> https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2021-October/000893.html
> And continuing in November
>
> https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2021-November/000915.html
>
> Kind regards
> Miroslav Lachman
>
>
Another +1 for modern SMBFS.