Future big ticket items in Dragonfly?

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I am a bit late in getting back to the discussion on this, but I see it has been lively.

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.

A few "small ticket" items that have been of interest for me (and perhaps to others) are:

1) Installer is capable of handling special characters for use in passwords;

2) Installer and console are unicode-aware (like in OpenBSD) so that typing in names that have umlauts and accents isn't an issue;

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."

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?

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.


On 06/24/2015 02:00 AM, Carsten Mattner wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 11:10 PM, patric conant
> <mirage.computing at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but unless these suggestions come
>> with some resources, I think we have our answer on the project direction,
>> and as far as I can tell, Dragonfly is very open and welcoming to developers
>> with a personal itch to scratch, whatever direction that might want to take
>> the project, as long as it's not disruptive and inline with overall goals,
>> but as far as suggestions from the peanut gallery go, I'm pretty sure that
>> that and $7 US will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks.
> 
> Of course but how is that different from what I just wrote when I said
> whoever does the work decides what gets done? It's obvious and
> to me at least this turned into a call for ideas. It's important to collect
> feedback on what users would like to see to get a feel isn't it?
> 

-- 
Michael