Re: Call for Foundation-supported Project Ideas

On 11/24/2021 2:42 AM, Dave Cottlehuber wrote:
> 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
> 

I was discussing the idea of 'user jails' with a few people around 
EuroBSDcon. Do you have some specific user cases, and/or ideas of what 
would be allowed and not allowed?


-- 
Allan Jude