Re: Call for Foundation-supported Project Ideas
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 21:31:50 UTC
On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 06:28:14PM -0500, Shawn Webb 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: > > 1. wireless mesh support. this would go _a long_ ways for supporting > human rights efforts. > 2. 100% llvm toolchain for base and ports. freebsd seems to already be > going in this direction. > 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. > 4. tor browser bundle (port from openbsd?) > > That's at least what I can think of off the top of my head. Another idea: 5. Distributed Poudriere. I have a few systems that would benefit from such a feature. For example, two ThunderX1 systems. And once I resurrect our partially-dead ThunderX2 system, we'll have three arm64 appliances in which we can build packages. Thanks, -- Shawn Webb Cofounder / Security Engineer HardenedBSD https://git.hardenedbsd.org/hardenedbsd/pubkeys/-/raw/master/Shawn_Webb/03A4CBEBB82EA5A67D9F3853FF2E67A277F8E1FA.pub.asc