Re: GSOC project

[Robert David <robert.david.public@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Alex,

thanks for tips, I think I will concentrate on the libdevattr stuff,
even it seems to be a bigger size problem. I will look at the problem
more deeply.


Robert.


V Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:50:13 +0000
Alex Hornung <ahornung@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Robert,
> 
> On 21/03/12 00:18, Robert David wrote:
> > I'm new to DragonFly, but I like the ideas you provide for
> > enhancements. There seems to be many tasks I'm interested, but I
> > dont know I can handle a lot of them, because I dont know
> > DragonFlyBSD (*BSD) kernel so much just now. 
> 
> if you want to learn about DragonFly, I suggest you just grab an ISO,
> install it (a VM will do) and just browse around. If you are really
> keen you could submit a patch or two for some of the bugs on the
> bugtracker.
> 
> 
> > As there are more ideas to improve in your list, maybe you as a
> > developers has some priority list what is more and what less
> > important.
> 
> It is not so much about what we feel is important, but about your
> proposal. If your proposal is great, you got good chances to get a
> slot even for a project someone might consider less relevant.
> 
> 
> > From the things that seems reasonable for me and my experiences are:
> >  - Improve compatibility of libdevattr with Linux' libudev
> 
> I'd certainly welcome that - but beware that there's more work to be
> done here than might appear at a first glance. In particular regarding
> sysfs - I'm not sure how much software benefits from libudev without
> explicit use of sysfs. If most also use sysfs, this project might
> evolve rapidly into a partial sysfs implementation (maybe even as a
> userland fs using puffs/fuse and an expanded libdevattr?)
> 
> 
> >  - Port FreeBSD's USB stack to DragonFly
> 
> While a lot of us feel that it would be great to have FreeBSD's USB
> stack, I'm not quite convinced it's a good gsoc project.
> 
> 
> >  - Adapt pkgsrc to create a package system with dependency
> > independence.
> 
> A proper package system for pkgsrc would certainly be great. If you
> are interested in this, I suggest you discuss this further on the
> mailing lists and dive into how pkgsrc works by simply using
> DragonFly for a while.
> 
> 
> HTH,
> Alex