From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 2 10:33:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2E8E16A4CE; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:33:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B5FC43D2D; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:33:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iB2AXerc093693; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 11:33:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Scott Long From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Dec 2004 15:02:40 MST." <41AE3F80.1000506@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 11:33:40 +0100 Message-ID: <93692.1101983620@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: phk@critter.freebsd.dk cc: hackers@freebsd.org cc: "current@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 10:33:42 -0000 In message <41AE3F80.1000506@freebsd.org>, Scott Long writes: >All, > >I know that I said last month that we were going to stop promising >specific features for the next major release. However, I'd like to >throw out a list of things that would be really nice to have in the >future, whether its 6.0 or 7.0 or whatever. >[...] >1. Keyboard multiplexer. [...] >2. New installer. [...] >3. Native PCI Express support. [...] >4. Journaled filesystem. [...] >5. Clustered FS support. [...] >6. Overhaul CAM, add iSCSI. [...] I agree on all of the above but I think we also need to have things on the list that doesn't take super hackers, and architectural reviews. So let us add the following points which I think are just as, if not more important for FreeBSDs future: 7. More people writing FreeBSD related articles for online and traditional media. If you have never written a piece about FreeBSD, how about sending something to your local IT trade rag ? Heck, even your local paper will probably run it if you send them a piece. 8. More people stomping for FreeBSD in universities and schools. Have you actually offered the science/IT teachers at the local hi-school to pop around and give a lesson on this open source phenomena to their pupils ? Or call your local college and ask if they need a teaching assistant for their evening courses in IT ? 9. A band of happy 1st line reponders dealing with PRs etc. We're getting better at this, but one way to really gain users is to help them when they need it most: right when they begin. 10. A more dynamic and interesting www.freebsd.org frontpage. Come on, at least we should be able to beat the "Congressional Record" when it comes to being interesting. 11. More people attending BSDcon conferences. Come to BSDcan2005! come to the next EuroBSDcon or AsiaBSDcon. Or make your own mini conference! Many Linux User groups would welcome you if you offered to give a talk about FreeBSD on one of their evenings. 12. Research/Coding grants (3/6/12 months) from the FreeBSD Foundation and other deep(er) pockets to help some of the heavy lifting happen. We're not only in it for the money, but money surely helps. And I'd like to stress that none of the above requires you to get permission from the core team, just go out and do it! -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.