Future big ticket items in Dragonfly?

[PeerCorps Trust Fund]

Thank you for the feedback on this.

On 06/28/2015 08:09 PM, Zachary Crownover wrote:
> 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
>>