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Date:      Thu, 2 Apr 2020 20:21:02 -0400
From:      Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Office Hours: April 1, 2020 18:00 UTC
Message-ID:  <3e98500f-f966-1552-992d-71fa86196f57@freebsd.org>
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From: Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>
To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <3e98500f-f966-1552-992d-71fa86196f57@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Office Hours: April 1, 2020 18:00 UTC
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On 2020-04-01 16:01, Allan Jude wrote:
> On 2020-03-29 20:25, Allan Jude wrote:
>> Hello everyone
>>
>> This coming Wednesday at 18:00 UTC we will hold the first "FreeBSD
>> Office Hours", an interactive online event where users, contributors,
>> and developers can ask questions and get advice.
>>
>> We are still experimenting with the format, but the first iteration wi=
ll
>> be an open Google Meet:
>>
>> https://meet.google.com/yak-ydnk-rnc
>>
>> That will also be recorded and posted to Youtube later in the day.
>>
>> We are still seeking some additional src, ports, and docs committers t=
o
>> help field the questions as well.
>>
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> Our first FreeBSD Office Hours event was a success with over 60 people
> in attendance.
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> I've not had time to edit and post the video yet, but it is available i=
n
> the DVR buffer on the streaming page:
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> https://live.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/officehours/
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> We hope to try this again in 2 weeks, at a different time to make it
> easier for people who could not attend this week.
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> Thanks to everyone who came out and asked or answered questions.
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The slightly edited down video has been posted to youtube, so if you
missed the event you can watch it here:

https://youtu.be/6qBm5NM3zTQ

I've created a playlist on the official FreeBSD youtube account, so you
can subscribe to be notified when new videos are posted.

Based on how things went during the live stream, I think in the future
we will have most people attend via the live stream and IRC chat here:

https://live.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/officehours/

If you wish to join the IRC directly, it is #freebsd on irc.geekshed.net
(It uses that IRC server because it integrates with the video stream)

That URL also uses the DVR feature of the live stream, meaning you can
pause and rewind the live stream, and continue to watch the live stream
even once the event is over. This weeks office hours video should remain
up there until the next live stream, planned for April 15th.


And, special thanks to Tom Jones for co-hosting with me, and for taking
much better notes than I did, inline below:

- what is your favourite feature of freebsd?

- Is OpenZFS port production ready? Who's using it?

- Here's a hard one: sometimes when I power cycle an entire JBOD, not
every device comes back.  I think there are three distinct bugs.  First,
sometimes a small number of disks don't come back, but they do after a
"camcontrol rescan".  That's not a major problem.  Secondly, sometimes
"mprutil show devices" doesn't show the missing disks.  That's probably
an HBA or driver bug.  But third, sometimes "mprutil show devices" shows
everything that ought to be present.  And yet "camcontrol devlist"
doesn't.  In that situation, "camcontrol rescan" does not help.  I
suspect that the problem has something to do with an expander
disappearing, and "camcontrol rescan" not knowing how to rescan for
that, but it's just a guess.  I'm willing to work on this problem
myself, but I don't know CAM very well.  Can somebody give me tips to
get started?

- if i had a usb hdmi capture card and I wanted it working on freebsd
(it currently connects and gets a video device but it doesn't function
or let you capture from it) what would be the best way to debug that and
get it working?

- is anyone working on a faster alternative to bridge and epair for vnet
enabled jails?

- question: it's kind of hard to have people start contributing to
FreeBSD,  either for ports, src or doc. I was wondering if there will be
a possibility to have some kind of official "mentorship program"? where
people can set their skill and interest and committers can have them
under mentorship?

- Question for Dan. Now that BSDCan is now cancelled and now being
turned into a Internet based conference, when can we expect to have more
detail about how that's going to work?

- I don't have a question, but some brief thoughts on where I'm having
issues. I knew 2.x.x series really well, 4.x extremely well, and 8.x
extremely well. From that point on I found that the effort to track down
undocumented things or rationales for why things changed got really
hard. Looking to get up to speed on 11.x and 12.x as I lean into admin
instead of web development again, and the docu spread is really hard to
deal with.

- question: I have a huge pile of ansible plays all for freebsd, would
anybody want to join forces on publishing these as a community contributi=
on?
  - dch

- Is there any plans to create official pkgbase repo to play with?  It's
rather hard to convince yourself to try pkgbase if you need to build
everything yourself, but I'm OK with being the guinea pig if the pkgbase
repo is provided.

- (mostly to clusteradm): so in this part of the world (Armenia for
example), pkg repo is VERY slow, I was wondering if other users can
setup mirrors? (I have found
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Teams/clusteradm/tiny-mirror ) but anyone can
give more info?  . and related: any plans to have public repos where the
verification (KGB, just in case) can be done by pkg by some other way?

- Which "tiny computers" (Raspberry Pi-like) have the best support on
FreeBSD these days, and are likely to continue good support? -- Leif
Pedersen

- does the bootloader support booting from pools with dataset encryption?=


- Is anybody attempting to merge FreeBSD's zfs test suite with openzfs's
ZFS  test suite?

- If you had to choose between mailing lists or forums for a question
that might benefit from developer eyes, which one?

- The graphics support has been greatly improved recently, which is a
huge plus for FreeBSD-on-desktop. Is there any plans to support Wi-Fi
development, especialy 5GHz, which will make FreeBSD on desktop even
more enjoyable? -- Sergey Kozlov

- can we get http/2 (for example) on mirrors ? also, would that help
anyway if fetch is not capable of doing that?

- ZFS ARC in NUMA systems



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Allan Jude


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