Hackathon3

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This article is about the 3rd NetBSD Hackathon during the weekend 25th - 26th of November 2006.

Contents

Release/Install Documentation

  • Please proofread the install documentation of the latest snapshot for architectures you are familiar with.
  • Please suggest text for sections marked as TBD


Regression Tests

  • Please run regression tests on archs you have access to, and report success or failure.


NetBSD 4.x Showstoppers

The following PRs should be fixed as much as possibe because they are showstoppers for netbsd-4.

critical/high

serious/high

serious/medium


Other PRs for the Hackathon

These PRs are important to made upcoming NetBSD release (and not upcoming only) happy. Please consider fix them in the first place. Of course, you are encouraged to work on any other problem reports as well.

bin

  • bin/7249 - most section 2 man pages don't mention ESTALE
  • bin/9672 - racoon(8) documentation needs serious help
  • bin/9840 - mt erase defaults to full zeroing of tape
  • bin/16775 - ed documentation is unclear regarding \< and \>
  • bin/21970 - printf(1) breaks when format begins with "-" [hubertf has proposed a patch, want feedback]
  • bin/23817 - sh allows empty LHS to short-circuit operators
  • bin/24001 - missing man pages for mkesdb and mkcsmapper
  • bin/25472 - cvs -u option is not documented in the man page or info.
  • bin/26214 - mount(8) does not mention NFS options [patch added to pr, awaiting feedback]]
  • bin/26883 - newfs(8) / tunefs(8) inconsistencies
  • bin/27189 - wiconfig manual doesn't mention athdevices
  • bin/31415 - less/more manpage does not mention the differences between them [feedback]
  • bin/32100 - confusing documentation about different versions of FFS [feedback]
  • bin/32368 - NetBSD's gzip(1) usage message should be more accurate
  • bin/33877 - cvs(1) doesn't document "tag" and "rtag"
  • bin/34733 - tcpdump(8) requires default snaplen > 68 for pflog(4)

install

  • install/12957 - Wrong procedure in installing laptop kernel in install.html [analyzed, on naquru's TODO]
  • install/16131 - INSTALL.html doesn't give a path name for one-fs local install

kern

  • kern/12920 - com(4) doesn't document ibuf floods
  • kern/15062 - spelling and comments on vfs stuff
  • kern/15955 - wscons keymap encoding shortcomings
  • kern/17947 - wi(4) man page is incomplete
  • kern/17997 - RND_COM still broken on i386?
  • kern/32430 - There is no documentation on genfs nor its gop's
  • kern/32830 - sd(4) contains incorrect & incomplete information
  • kern/33952 - There is no documentation for "Wedges"
  • kern/34146 - scsi(4) manpage doesn't match with sys/scsiio.h
  • kern/34277 - the documentation invlan(4) and ifconfig(8) about VLANs in incomplete
  • kern/34590 - IPF documentation is obsolete
  • kern/34939 - viaide(4) manual page should indicate VT8237A SATA controller support

lib

  • lib/8359 - ANSI fread() and fwrite() interactions aren't sufficiently documented
  • lib/30968 - OPENSSL_config(3) refers to incorrect environment variable
  • lib/31112 - malloc.conf and system programs
  • lib/34931 - PTHREAD_ATTR(3) doesn't document PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE and PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED macros

misc

  • misc/8109 - exports(5) is wrong about exporting multiple directories in filesystem
  • misc/9627 - Manual pages sometimes aren't well cross referenced.
  • misc/12302 - dlfcn.3 needs to mention RTLD_* flags
  • misc/18665 - Error in setlocale(3) man page
  • misc/21922 - standardize on the word "platform" in documentation
  • misc/22433 - More GPRS trivia for GPRS page.
  • misc/23530 - Suggestion: calculate the size needed to compile world on each platform before new release
  • misc/28797 - sched_getparam() and sched_setparam() not documented
  • misc/29657 - /etc/wscons.conf should list all available keyboard maps
  • misc/29875 - NetBSD Guide chap-net-{practice,misc} patch commit request
  • misc/29998 - fixes for OpenSSL man pages
  • misc/31228 - wrong chapter in drvctl documentatio
  • misc/32126 - Manpage for ichlpcib(4) is missing
  • misc/35058 - identify CVS tags [hubertf answered & closed]

port-atari

  • port-atari/33351 - Cannot find atarti/.../installation/floppies/boot.fs on your site, or the CD

port-i386

  • port-i386/28588 - update the guide for setting up RAIDframe on 2.0 [hubertf asked for more input - can't make sense out of this one]
  • port-i386/34986 - Note that Dynamic Allocation of System RAM as VIdeo RAM must be disabled in system BIOS
  • port-i386/35040 - problem with pwlib patch in pkgsrc

security

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