Re: DragonFly BSD Goals/Direction

[Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado <iam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/02/2011 07:39 AM, Samuel J. Greear wrote:
> This email is intended primarily for active DragonFly committers and
> contributors.
>
> I intend to bring the goals page on the DragonFly website up to date
> like I did previously with several of the other prominent pages, so I
> need to know what your goals are. Please provide me, either on or
> off-list at least a brief summary of your near-term (current or next
> release), medium-term (1-3 years) and long-term (3 years +) goals. If
> you would go into agonizing detail that would be fantastic but
> definitely not necessary, I will try to work with whatever you are
> able to provide.
>
> How exactly should we define a goal? I would say a goal is
> definitely something that you are or have concrete plans to work on.
> A goal is also definitely something that you would sponsor someone
> else to work on. A few pie in the sky ideas are always good too, but
> please be sure to stipulate which things you just feel strongly about
> and those you actually intend to have a hand in.
>
> Thanks in advance, Sam

Hi. You know I'm not a developer (and I can't donate money now, bad
times) but here is my two cents as user.

Support for unicode in console is a must have for me. I'm a Spanish guy
and I can't read my files with accents or write comments in correct
Spanish in my scripts. Anyway, I know is a complex task.

The compression in hammer would be also very nice. Both projects have
bounties from other users and developers:
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/developer/Code_Bounties/ .

Also you can look in rejected GSoC projects for ideas.

Thanks and cheers.

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