Re: Call for Foundation-supported Project Ideas

On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 5:28 PM Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 06:41:01PM -0400, 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.
>
> Hey Joseph,
>
> Thanks for sending this out!
>
> Here's just a few things I'd love to see:
>
> [...]
> 3. jail orchestration in base. it's great that we have all these
>    disparate jail management ports, but we lack a fully
>    coherent/integreated solution. I'd love to see jail orchestration
>    get the same love as zfs in base.
> [...]

+1. I'd really like to see what one could do with the lua bindings we
added for libjail. Writing a lua jail manager would be non-trivial,
but IMO it wouldn't be an insurmountable task and opens up some
interesting plugin capabilities with just the tooling we have in base.

> Thanks again,
>
> --
> Shawn Webb
> Cofounder / Security Engineer
> HardenedBSD