From owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Mon Feb 20 13:22:04 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4366FCE5405 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2017 13:22:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from t@tomoyat1.com) Received: from mail.tomoyat1.com (tomoyat1.com [133.130.119.65]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1A25011F4; Mon, 20 Feb 2017 13:22:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from t@tomoyat1.com) Received: from tomoyat1.com (60-56-201-126f1.shg1.eonet.ne.jp [60.56.201.126]) by mail.tomoyat1.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E1BB68D2F; Mon, 20 Feb 2017 13:15:10 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=tomoyat1.com; s=tomoyat1; t=1487596511; bh=f1BOTY34dch7diIM/o1qV3FL7WHj+6gAKdL5+EUSPXw=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:From:Sender:To:CC:Subject: Message-Id:Date; b=Kw4WLxdF64HGafaS6VJ2cDJrcTv9/OPUcgpniIvcbYooiO2DIG2ESjlRVGaG9J6HZ pfZ266tp/6LqSNpzvwJuzAjRF8K25WY2vXi+p0M4kMDmvcTpW7Lf/mo8RTkclpZRqe t6mP/PVEl9ZLR1tfCTzvtpPWgk3mJNZgqd/qiy+A= Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 22:15:09 +0900 From: Tomoya Tabuchi To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: allanjude@freebsd.org Subject: GSoC Project Involving the reimplementation of beadm(1) Message-ID: <20170220131509.GA31623@tomoyat1.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, allanjude@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 13:22:04 -0000 Hello, I am interested in doing a GSoC project this year with the idea "Write a new boot environment manager" on the ideas list. (https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCodeIdeas#Write_a_new_boot_environment_manager) I would like to ask a few questions involving this. First, is there a particular reason why this project is listed in the ideas list? Aside the fact the current implementation in sh is rather complicated, I was unable to come up with a reason to justify the reimplementation. Second, is making the new implmentation of beadm(1) platform independent and promoting it across the various OpenZFS implmentation / communities as some sort of "standard" implmentation a good idea, or is it over-zealous / outside of the project scope / intrusive to other projects. As for a late self introduction, my name is Tomoya Tabuchi, and I am a undergraduate student at Doshisha University in Japan. I will start my third year in university in April. Regards, Tomoya