hackathon

Hackathon 17

The 17th NetBSD hackathon is running from June 14th until June 17th. Our goal is fixing all the bugs that need fixing to get NetBSD-current ready for the creation of the NetBSD 6.0 release branch.

Join us on the IRC channel #netbsd-code on freenode (irc.freenode.net). Just join, have a look around and ask your questions or what work needs to be done.

Release plans for NetBSD-6.0

This file is managed by the release engineering team - please get in touch with them with any feedback.

Will be in 6.0

ZFS - need an update on viability, needs work

in-kernel iSCSI initiator, and user tools - in othersrc, needs to be moved to src

64-bit time_t

rump - pooka has declared interfaces stable

LVM/dmapper and tools

workable MIPS for all

netpgp - agc

able to use external compilers and toolchain

cleaned up files in repos - joerg

support for wide efficient regexps with tre

native X11R7

TLS - joerg

following on from TLS, modern gdb

lua scripting

agreement and communication of tiered port system (before release) - pooka

other enhancements and new functionality in -current

tcp support in libsa? need to merge SoC project

sasl - SoC project was merged

namei changes - dholland

support for resizing ffs - riz

production support for fss

Xen/SMP

Xen suspend/resume

automated test framework for testing releng autobuilds

full functionality for NPF - SMP-aware packet filter - rmind

fixed IPSEC NAT-T

GPT-aware bootloader for i386/amd64 - jakllsch

gcc 4.5

clang - joerg

NetBSD/usermode - jmcneill, reinoud

Possibly in 6.0

mobile IPv6 - we have the mods, need application of same to the repo

kernel modules need work

May not make 6.0

XIP

Will not be in 6.0

gaols

sctp

devfs

Alistair Crooks On behalf of core and releng teams

Primary goals

We want NetBSD 6.0 to be the best NetBSD release ever. There are already a lot of great features in it:

Improved kernel performance and scalability

New kernel module framework with automatic module loading

Logical Volume Manager

NetBSD Packet Filter

Xen SMP support

Flash file-system CHFS

Automated Regression Testing

Improved FUSE support

Updated Linux emulation

GCC 4.5.3

Updated X.org X11 distribution

SMTP authentication client built into Postfix (now version 2.8.7)

New and enhanced drivers

... and many other features

To make sure that NetBSD users get the best possible experience of the new release we would like to fix as many as possible of the following bugs. If you are able to help us to fix these bugs by supplying patches or testing fixes please consider to participate. We are also in need of people to supply documentation fixes, preferably in the form of patches. Release notes and/or manual pages!

Critical bugs:

PR 45677: The stress_killer test sometimes does

PR 45708: Unable to read big files from large FFSv2 (12TB), ls out of swap

PR 44788: mlock(2) panic

PR 45187: select(2) sometimes doesn't wakeup

PR 45833: occasional crash of 5.99.59: SPL NOT LOWERED ON TRAP EXIT

Important bugs:

Should be fixed:

It would also be nice to fix the following bugs: