--- wikisrc/hackathon.mdwn 2012/02/02 23:46:57 1.16
+++ wikisrc/hackathon.mdwn 2012/02/12 12:27:27 1.31
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
# Hackathon 16
-The 16th NetBSD hackathon will be run from February 10th to February 12th.
+The 16th NetBSD hackathon *is running until February 12th*.
Our goal is fixing all the bugs that need fixing to get
[[NetBSD-current|http://www.NetBSD.org/docs/current/]] ready for the
creation of the NetBSD 6.0 release branch.
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ be done.
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 scalibity
+* Improved kernel performance and scalability
* New kernel module framework with automatic module loading
-* Logic Volume Manager
+* Logical Volume Manager
* NetBSD Packet Filter
* Xen SMP support
* Flash file-system CHFS
@@ -29,12 +29,12 @@ a lot of great features in it:
* 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 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!
+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:
@@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ Important bugs:
* [[PR 40562|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/40562]]: busy loop in ffs_sync when unmounting a file system
* [[PR 41013|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/41013]]: netbsd5-rc2 crash (kernel diagnostic assertion "vp->v_usecount == 1" failed)
* [[PR 39371|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/39371]]: wapbl should allow mounting "/" even if journal is hosed
-* [[PR 39609|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/39609]]: wapbl "replaying log to disk" message is potentially misleading
-* [[PR 32318|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/32318]]: NFS client or server hang
+* fixed [[PR 39609|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/39609]]: wapbl "replaying log to disk" message is potentially misleading
+* fixed [[PR 32318|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/32318]]: NFS client or server hang
* [[PR 39385|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/39385]]: unmounting ptyfs with busy ptys causes deadlock in vrele
* [[PR 40388|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/40388]]: IPv6 incompatibility with pre-5.99.6 binary
* [[PR 38078|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/38078]]: IPFilter lacks documentation almost completely
@@ -77,14 +77,12 @@ Important bugs:
* [[PR 41936|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/41936]]: gdb does not work for threaded programs on sparc64
* [[PR 41208|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/41208]]: objcopy -S -O binary aborts w/ BFD internal error
* [[PR 41127|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/41127]]: Update/improve newfs docs regarding raw devices
-* [[PR 45762|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45762]]: ntpd default config violates pool.ntp.org policy
* [[PR 40346|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/40346]]: libexpat should be in base.tgz
* [[PR 9582|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/9582]]: sysinst doesn't allow source or pkgsrc installation
* [[PR 38571|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/38571]]: sysinst runs "postinstall fix"
* [[PR 12769|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/12769]]: clarify the upgrade notes for when the sets are on /usr
* [[PR 43314|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/43314]]: pc relative relocations are "off by 1*size" on vax
* [[PR 44159|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/44159]]: startx (xinit) fails
-* [[PR 45153|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45153]]: there should be a build.sh target for building live images
* [[PR 45155|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45155]]: there are no usb-stick installer images
* [[PR 45439|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45439]]: gcc generates out-of-range branch insn for m68k
* [[PR 45573|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45573]]: internal compiler error when building f2c on sparc64
@@ -92,6 +90,7 @@ Important bugs:
* [[PR 45628|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45628]]: acpicpu(4) changes between 5.99.55 and 5.99.56 break amd64
* [[PR 45816|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45816]]: Screen corruption in German sysinst install
* [[PR 45854|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45854]]: vnode clean list corruption?
+* [[PR 45974|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45974]]: kernfs mount point directory listing is empty
Should be fixed:
@@ -153,6 +152,7 @@ Should be fixed:
It would also be nice to fix the following bugs:
+* (no PR): dump, restore, tar, cpio, scp, sftp, rcp do not copy extended attributes
* [[PR 2512|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/2512]]: fuword() definition problem
* [[PR 28448|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/28448]]: stackable filesystems locking breakage when looking up DOTDOT
* [[PR 32367|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/32367]]: umount -f deadlock
@@ -202,8 +202,8 @@ It would also be nice to fix the followi
* [[PR 38066|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/38066]]: tar doesn't dearchive correctly long symlinks
* [[PR 41049|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/41049]]: usermod -g =uid testuser does not create group as indicated by man page
* [[PR 41526|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/41526]]: re-support /usr/bin/vi's -F option
-* [[PR 43839|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/43839]]: vi can't resize in -current
-* [[PR 45006|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45006]]: nvi gives nonsense error when TERM environment variable unset
+* fixed [[PR 43839|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/43839]]: vi can't resize in -current
+* fixed in HEAD in 2009 [[PR 45006|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45006]]: nvi gives nonsense error when TERM environment variable unset
* [[PR 5034|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/5034]]: the num lock light doesn't change when switching to X (also, 9127)
* [[PR 9127|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/9127]]: CapsLock not properly handled between virtual consoles with X (also, 5034)
* [[PR 42569|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/42569]]: Please import xf86-input-usbtablet driver from OpenBSD xenocara
@@ -216,3 +216,4 @@ It would also be nice to fix the followi
* [[PR 35538|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/35538]]: sysinst duplicates hostname on upgrade
* [[PR 39352|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/39352]]: sysinst enhancement suggestion: file browser
* [[PR 13532|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/13532]]: the HTML generated for INSTALL.html is atrocious
+