Future big ticket items in Dragonfly?

[Zachary Crownover]

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.
On 28 Jun 2015 09:21, "PeerCorps Trust Fund" <ipc at peercorpstrust.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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