Annotation of wikisrc/hackathon.mdwn, revision 1.10
1.10 ! tron 1: # Hackathon 16
1.1 asau 2:
1.10 ! tron 3: The 16th NetBSD hackathon will be run from February 10th to February 12th.
! 4: Our goal is fixing all the bugs that needs fixing to get
! 5: [[NetBSD-current|http://www.NetBSD0.org/docs/current/]] ready for the
! 6: creation of the NetBSD 6.0 release branch.
1.1 asau 7:
8: Join us on the IRC channel #netbsd-code on freenode (irc.freenode.net).
1.10 ! tron 9: Just join, have a look around and ask your questions or what work needs to
! 10: be done.
1.1 asau 11:
1.2 asau 12: ## Primary goals
1.1 asau 13:
1.10 ! tron 14: We want NetBSD 6.0 to be the best NetBSD release ever. There are already
! 15: a lot of great features in it:
1.1 asau 16:
1.10 ! tron 17: * Improved kernel performance and scalibity
! 18: * New kernel module framework with automatic module loading
! 19: * Logic Volume Manager
! 20: * NetBSD Packet Filter
! 21: * Xen SMP support
! 22: * Flash file-system CHFS
! 23: * Automated Regression Testing
! 24: * Improved FUSE support
! 25: * Updated Linux emulation
! 26: * GCC 4.5.3
! 27: * Updated X.org X11 distribution
! 28: * SMTP authentication client built into Postfix (now version 2.8.7)
! 29: * New and enhanced drivers
! 30: * ... and many other features
! 31:
! 32: To make sure that NetBSD users get the best possible experience of
! 33: the new release we would like to fix as many as possible of the
! 34: following bugs:
! 35:
! 36: Critical bugs:
! 37: * [[PR 45677|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45677]]: The stress_killer test sometimes does
! 38: * [[PR 45708|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45708]]: Unable to read big files from large FFSv2 (12TB), ls out of swap
! 39: * [[PR 44788|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/44788]]: mlock(2) panic
! 40: * [[PR 45187|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45187]]: select(2) sometimes doesn't wakeup
! 41: * [[PR 45833|http://gnats.NetBSD.org/45833]]: occasional crash of 5.99.59: SPL NOT LOWERED ON TRAP EXIT
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