Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has put together a standards conformance checklist for DragonFly. If you want to tackle something on it, let him know.
Joerg Sonneberger pointed at this batch script for building ports in a jail, so that the building process cannot crap out while your installed ports are in flux.
Jeremy C. Reed is looking for a DragonFly host to use for bulk-building pkgsrc. He’d need about 20G of space, and an open port for reports through http.
I have a computer for it, but no connection yet. He mentions in his post (linked above) that currently, just over 40% of packages in pkgsrc build on DragonFly, which works out to over 2,000 programs.
Matthew Dillon slipped the stable tag again, to get a few more bugfixes in.
He also discovered some problems with the OpenBSD version of NTPd currently in base; it will probably be replaced or significantly changed at some point after this upcoming release.
Matthew Dillon, while examining another problem, added a webstress program, which tests making many, many connections to a http server.
He also committed a related program, wildcardinfo, which lists wildcard hash tables for each CPU in the system.
The stable tag has been slipped again; there is still a few issues to work out.
Matthew Dillon also described his plans for release schedules.
If you were trying pkgsrc but having trouble building gtk2 (and therefore Gnome), Todd Willeyt has placed a binary of pkgsrc gtk2 on gobsd.com, and is trying to get the appropriate changes made upstream.
Sascha Wildner has created a DragonFly Artwork section on the wiki; upload if you got some!
Naming each version of DragonFly has been under discussion in kernel@ for a while; Matthew Dillon posted a changed naming plan based on all this talk.
Matthew Dillon announced the Stable tag will be slipped Sunday, with release engineering following until the next release, later this week! The only commits at this point should be bugfixes.
Joerg Sonnenberger has changed how sound devices are loaded; “device pcm” no longer loads every driver, and a separate command is used to load just one.
I wrote a short article with details on developing for DragonFly. I finished the article a while ago, but didn’t link it anywhere. Mostly, it just talks about getting an account on leaf…
Zera William Holladay posted more art. (.gif format)
Not much to report lately… Spend some time reading up on a question about documentation in PDF form that strangely turned into a thread about things like the relative quality of ext3fs, reiserfs, and ufs.
The monitoring system Nagios, which I used in a previous incarnation as NetSaint, is reviewed on UnixReview.com.
Joerg Sonnenberger has removed all the old sound support that dates back to before NEWPCM was added in FreeBSD-4. This probably does not affect anyone, as this is all for old, rare equipment, usually ISA.
Stable has slipped.
If that doesn’t make sense to you, this means that the current “bleeding edge” code has been moved to “Stable” status, as there’s no outstanding problems with it. If you’re using the “DragonFly_Stable” tag in your CVSup file, you’ll have some new things to download.
Dru Lavigne has a new article in her ONLamp FreeBSD Basics column that talks about make. Most of what it says applies to DragonFly, too.
Martin P. Hellwig has an image(s) he plans to use for a shirt.
Adrian Nida posted that he’s added a “mail server with TLS” HOWTO to the wiki. It’s part of a larger HOWTO section, if anyone would like to contribute.