Goals for FreeBSD 13

Reliability and Quality
- More tests (create a culture of testing)
  - Network stack testing
    - Extend this for Transport using OpenBSD tests
    - Improve IPv6 stack, cleanup KAME macros
    - Some of this was done as an SA re: fragmentation list complexity
- more automatable
  - rc.conf(.d/*)
  - tcp syslog
  - libifconfig
  - improved jail functionality
User Experience
- Desktop Graphics Support (drm integration)
  - Install experience
  - devmatch (auto loading)
- Define a few laptops to group around
- Requirements:
  - More testing across hardware
  - More people interested in working on kernel part
  - Even more people interested in the dependant ports
  - Project Management (people and tools)
  - Communications (bi-weekly call?)
Fewer things in base
- Remove sendmail
  - DMA not suitable
    - Missing functionality that upstream doesn't want
    - Would have to fork
    - No persistent queue (queue lost across restarts)
    - Not capsicum*izable
  - Need: local delivery, smarthost
  - /etc/aliases
  - As little more as possible
- Remove NTP
  - SNTP client, not a server, simple as possible
  - Leap second smearing
  - 1. chrony
  - 2. ntimed (may be dead/stalled)
  - 3. ttsntpd (no leap second smearing)
- Don't remove kerberos (hard to have as a port)
- What do people expect in base (add to survey)
- syslog
  - tcp support
  - enable new date format/timezone feature for 13.0
  - Structured logs? Even just tab delimited
- More automation friendly
  - periodic is the devil
  - libifconfig
  - ucl everywhere
  - ethtool like interface for layer2 NIC management
    - iflib control interface
pkg base
- PkgBase
service management
- Process management
- Failure detection
- init restarting management tools
Documentation sweep
- clean up firewall guidance for newcomers
- sort out portmaster/poudriere/… recommendations
- sort out jail tools … recommendations
- Copyeditor/copywriter
  - Structure and accessiblity of the documentation
- Cull stale translations
  - Really stale translations of security documentation
- User contributed documentation
  - Wiki
    - Must be markdown
  - New contributor model has too much friction
  - Keeping documentation up to date is harder
  - Was discussed in a BSDCam working group
Wireless
- 802.11ac
- 802.11 whatever is next
- SDIO for wireless on embedded boards
Virtualization tooling
- Jails
  - list of configured jails
  - convert jail.conf to UCL
  - resource management
  - Terraform provider
- bhyve
  - management tools
Performance
- Forwarding: 100gbps
- Firewalling: 100gpbs
- Briding: 100gpbs
- VPC (network virtualization)
- NUMA
  - Problems with unbalanced NUM
- 256+ cores (possibly 1024 by end of 13.x)