Re: Call for Foundation-supported Project Ideas

On 11/24/2021 4:46 pm, Allan Jude wrote:
> 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?


Back to the topic:
Can I PLEASE get some help on sysutils/lsof (which has been broken for 
all of 13 and 14's lifetime)?
If I can't, I'm going to rmport it.

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