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" <[email protected]> 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 > > <[email protected]> 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 > > >
