Re: DragonFly future planning

On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Justin Sherrill
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I've got some ideas for how we're going to have the next release, but I
> wanted to write them out publicly.  There's a bunch of changes going on for
> DragonFly, and it'll be neat to have them in the next release.  If I name
> you in this writeup, tell me if I'm overcommitting your time.
>
> - 3.4 was released in April.  We aim for 6-month cycles, which means 3.6
> should be near the end of October.  That gives us about a month and a half
> to deal with integrating GSoC 2013 code.  If you are a mentor or student,
> tell me if that's possible/not possible.
>
> - dports is changing to gcc 4.7, as John Marino posted.  We'll probably be
> using dports built with gcc 4.7 for DragonFly 3.6 release.
>
> - We have i915 support, thanks to several people's hard work.  I think it's
> OK to plan on having it as part of 3.6.
>
> - Matt's working on Hammer 2.  It's not going to be done for 3.6, but it
> would be neat to have an experimental version for people to try.  I know
> Matt's got his hands full, but if someone wanted to work on Hammer 2
> reclaiming deleted space, it would probably be at least easier to experiment
> with.
>
> - 3.6 will probably be a dports-default release, because dports has pretty
> much swept the board with people adopting it over pkgsrc.  The installer for
> DragonFly assumes pkgsrc right now, but I think Sascha has been working on a
> conversion. So, start thinking about a pkgsrc -> dports conversion if you
> haven't changed over yet.  (pkgsrc will still work on DragonFly for those
> wanting to go to pkgsrc-2013Q3, for instance; just I don't think there's
> anyone actively working on it for DragonFly now.)
>
> Looking farther ahead, with some things that I certainly won't be doing but
> would love to see:
>
> - As John Marino wrote recently, clang will probably need to come in since
> FreeBSD's moving to it.  I'm happy to let them go first, especially with
> ports.
>
> - Replace groff with mandoc?  This idea has been broached before.  I think
> groff is the last c++ item to clean up.
>
> - After 3.6, if Hammer 2 gets to a point where you can boot from it and
> generally run normally, I'd suggest the next DragonFly release after that is
> numbered 4.0.
>
> - A new DragonFly GUI image - this would be part of switching to a dports
> install.
>
> - Evaluating i386 platform support.  I don't think it's time to drop it yet,
> but it's worth thinking about again within 6 months time.
>
> Please add to my list if there's features you're planning on working on for
> this release/next release, or if I'm very wrong on something.

Better IPv6 support :-)

>



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