freebsd stable - Jul 2009 - FreeBSD RoadMap

Is there a general roadmap of what's planned
for future major releases? I don't mean minor
stuff like driver or contributed version bumps.
But bigger, or just plain cool things, like as SMP,
soft updates, ZFS, netgraph, pf, etc, were in the past.

I poked around the website and  wiki a bit and didn't
see any sort of all in one document.

Some sort of dynamic non-binding wiki doc with direction
or work as to how the next two [or 3] majors after the
current one [8] would be interesting. And could be used
by those looking at investing in FreeBSD as a future
or continuing platform. Certainly core/committers have
thoughts on this that are publishable. Something so
people can see where all the projects fit into the whole.

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:55:19AM -0400, grarpamp
wrote:
> Is there a general roadmap of what's planned
> for future major releases? I don't mean minor
> stuff like driver or contributed version bumps.
> But bigger, or just plain cool things, like as SMP,
> soft updates, ZFS, netgraph, pf, etc, were in the past.
I doubt that there's much "big" in the ambit of "Unix-like
OS"
that isn't already in the 8-current series.

In a project like FreeBSD, "what's in the roadmap" equates
pretty closely with "what are the developers working on", and
that is summarised in the quarterly status reports, such as this
one:
http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2009-01-2009-03.html

As for when any of this will "hit the tree" and find its way
into a release, that's very much a "how long is a piece of
string" sort of question; not really the way FreeBSD works.
Particularly since it moved to a calendar-based release
schedule.

IMO, YMMV, i-do-not-speak-for-freebsd, etc.

Cheers,

-- 
Andrew