TODO revision 1.4
1 # $NetBSD: TODO,v 1.4 2003/08/15 10:10:17 agc Exp $ 2 3 THINGS TO BE DONE: 4 5 [ Note that this list does not include change requests filed via 'gnats'. 6 For information about them, mail query-pr (a] NetBSD.org. ] 7 8 This is a list of things that need to be done for NetBSD. Some of 9 these projects are small, others are large. Some are extremely 10 important, others are enhancements to make the system more flexible 11 for the wide variety of NetBSD users and their applications. 12 13 In general there are some guidelines for work to be included in 14 NetBSD. Chief among these are: 15 16 (1) Keep GPLed stuff out of the kernel. 17 (2) Introduce little to no more GPLed stuff as non-optional 18 components of the user environment. 19 (3) Only clean code, that lends itself to further enhancement 20 (4) Keep architecture dependent code out of architecture independent 21 directories 22 23 Associated with some entries are login names which indicate persons or 24 groups who may already be working on that problem. This isn't to say 25 that others shouldn't also look at it, but consultation with other 26 parties may result in less duplicated work. A directory of these 27 persons can be found after the todo list itself. 28 29 Please don't hesitate to suggest more projects for this list. 30 Suggestions, comments, etc to projects (a] NetBSD.org. 31 32 High Kernel: 33 swap fixes: 34 swap to file of dynamic size; see apollo 35 nfs: 36 kernel suport for lockd(8), lockf(3) 37 clean up support for LKM and protections checking (cgd) 38 39 User programs: 40 rwall nfs-mountees on shutdown 41 add detachment to window 42 clean up gas config files, set up common defines 43 44 Pie-in-the-Sky: 45 someone should actually test all the netiso stuff. 46 SMB filesystem 47 48 Documentation: 49 modify sys docs to reflect NetBSD/arch-specific stuff 50 clean up src/share/man/{man0,tools} so that we can generate a printable 51 version from the manpages again. 52 53 i386 kernel support: 54 better ways of accessing BIOS, i/o space. some exportable to 55 user space. See mach3,linux dos emulator 56 57 58 This is a list of suggested smaller projects (in no particular order): 59 60 + implement Unix98 ptys 61 + speed up sort(1) by using mmap(2) rather than temp files 62 + autoconf version of our sed, for use in non-NetBSD pkgsrc 63 + autoconf version of nawk, for use in non-NetBSD pkgsrc 64 + port valgrind to NetBSD for pkgsrc, then use it to do an audit of 65 any memory leakage 66 + someone investigate time taken to boot 67 + help in implementing various things in pkgsrc 68 + simplify some of the quirks in our build system 69 + help out with scripts for tgm/autobuild 70 + some PR fixing/re-categorising/investigating/closing 71 + investigate zebra or quagga in gnusrc rather than routed 72 + do a type-punned pointer sweep for gcc3 (and fix the problems, not 73 the symptoms) 74 + kernel fine-grained locking 75 + write a BSD-licensed web browser 76 + write a BSD-licensed privacy guard like gnupg or pgp 77 + perhaps look at putting wonka into src/ (with uuencoded class lib?) 78 + investigate ProPolice 79 + document autoconf framework 80 + write an overview document for openssl and certificates 81 + documentation project help 82 + investigate which userland utilities and daemons would benefit from 83 kqueue, and rewrite them 84 + better testing in general; in particular, more regression tests 85 + better LKM version checking 86 + add a native scheme interpreter 87 + add platform support for TenDRA compiler suite 88
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