Re: Call for Foundation-supported Project Ideas
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 07:42:56 UTC
On Tue, 23 Nov 2021, at 22:41, 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. > > -- > Joe (with Foundation hat on) Some new ideas. 1. updated kmod ports for point releases. we should be able to ship an x+1 RELEASE *and* have the appropriate kmod ports available at the same time. I know that unplanned API breakage is rare, but when it does happen, its absolutely brutal for end users. 2. a decent ports CI At least for committers, and for regular maintainers, we should be able to have some common-sense pre-commit build checks done at least on tier 1 architectures easily without human intervention. 3. jail creation and usage as non-root nuff said. 4. more programmable/scriptable configs I would love to see FreeBSD be the programmable server environment. - libxo all the things - more stuff like libifconfig libpf libzfs -- "lib-ify" all the things - UCL all the things A+ Dave