<p dir="ltr">Feel free to make a bounty for those on the site. Mention it to a group and maybe more will commit to it if you're so inclined. It's not a guarantee, the people here care more about the community and the technology than money, but I suppose if they were already considering doing any of those bounties then the money might make them consider prioritizing it, or it could help bring attention from outsiders. Still, it's a way to persist your thoughts on the site as well as gauge a relative level of interest based on how much people are willing to devote to it.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 28 Jun 2015 09:21, "PeerCorps Trust Fund" <<a href="mailto:ipc@peercorpstrust.org">ipc@peercorpstrust.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I am a bit late in getting back to the discussion on this, but I see it has been lively.<br>
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As far as committing resources for particular "itches", if there were some sort of a guide as to what it would potentially cost in developer time to add a feature, I would be interested in working to fundraise for smaller lower level features. I cannot commit code myself, but am definitely interested in helping in areas that might also benefit others.<br>
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A few "small ticket" items that have been of interest for me (and perhaps to others) are:<br>
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1) Installer is capable of handling special characters for use in passwords;<br>
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2) Installer and console are unicode-aware (like in OpenBSD) so that typing in names that have umlauts and accents isn't an issue;<br>
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3) It would be nice if the autoboot_delay="0" setting could be implemented in /boot/loader.conf. Earlier this year Matt Dillon commented the following pertaining to this: "If someone wants to submit code to allow the autoboot_delay="0" case, I'll accept it."<br>
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4) I look forward to the "multiple copies" feature under HAMMER2. But this is also a feature that could be useful for users of HAMMER1 systems until HAMMER2 is production ready. Is this difficult to do in HAMMER1?<br>
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That would be my shortlist. I think others have already commented on bringing in security features from OpenBSD, but I don't think any of those are "small ticket" items.<br>
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On 06/24/2015 02:00 AM, Carsten Mattner wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 11:10 PM, patric conant<br>
> <<a href="mailto:mirage.computing@gmail.com">mirage.computing@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but unless these suggestions come<br>
>> with some resources, I think we have our answer on the project direction,<br>
>> and as far as I can tell, Dragonfly is very open and welcoming to developers<br>
>> with a personal itch to scratch, whatever direction that might want to take<br>
>> the project, as long as it's not disruptive and inline with overall goals,<br>
>> but as far as suggestions from the peanut gallery go, I'm pretty sure that<br>
>> that and $7 US will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks.<br>
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> Of course but how is that different from what I just wrote when I said<br>
> whoever does the work decides what gets done? It's obvious and<br>
> to me at least this turned into a call for ideas. It's important to collect<br>
> feedback on what users would like to see to get a feel isn't it?<br>
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