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1.4     ! agc         1: #      $NetBSD: TODO,v 1.3 2003/08/10 19:47:07 jdolecek Exp $
1.1       lukem       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@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@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
1.4     ! agc        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