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====== 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)