Feature Requests
From OpenFSG
This is a list of requests for new hardware or software features.
Usage
- Title/Link
- Description (optional)
- Requestor: First requestor (Wiki or forum) (optional)
- Priority: According to number of requests and/or replies (1 to 5)
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| title=Feature
| requestor=Nickname
| priority=2
| description=description
}}
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Official Rough FC Roadmap
This is the official rough roadmap. Rough meaning that we decide per several weeks which direction we go in so this roadmap is bound to change once every while. When is the next release due? Instead of having to announce delays or pushing our developers to release unfinished or untested code, we work on a "its done when its done" (tm) basis. This will make sure we release the best possible quality for all our customers. Or in other words, don't ask ;-)
Next features will be:
- Switch (Turn off router) - 3.2.0 release
- VPN improvements (a lot of users are having trouble setting it up now, possibly due to our setup) - 3.2.1 release
- Improved user, group, folder management (integral system for FTP and SMB including external drives, all rights possible) - work underway 3.3.6 (RC for beta release)
- Automatic backup (copy direct from to USB/FTP/SMB from FSG with crontab timer function) - work underway 3.4.0 (early alpha)
and some of the stuff on our wish list (meaning we are considering it but have no concrete plans yet) in no particular order:
- ipkg - since Firmware 4.2.7
- Perl
- Torrent/download client - Torrent client available since Firmware 4.2.7
- ipkg
- ipkg support is a ways off. Installing it is simple enough, but making sure there are no problems with the installed libraries and new ones that some user may add give support a headache. We are still considering how to handle that best. Probably need to install an FSG feed just as RMR has at the moment. That will take some more time. There is also discussion how many users will benefit from this feature as compared to the amount of time it will take to install. For the moment a "developers only" feature.
- Rod Whitby (NSLU2-Linux Project Lead) now has an FSG-3 and will work with Freecom on official ipkg support. - Available since Firmware 4.2.7
- MLDonkey
- We have looked at installing MLDonkey. This is a nightmare at the moment. Cross compiling MLDonkey itself is doable, but comapl is a problem. The interpreter runs the endianness of the system where it is compiled, which is usually little endian. Since we have a big endian machine this leaves us with no interpreter. There is no way to set this at compile time. We can hack it, but it is not trivial. We are looking at other bittorent programs but have so far not found one that fits our profile such as WebGui, no xwindows required and Not Perl.
- Perl
- We installed PHP in favor of Perl. This desicion was based on testing the performance of Perl. At the moment we have focused our work on other features first, believing that most systems that are available in Perl are also available in PHP. And PHP can be accelerated easier then Perl. It is on the wishlist.
As you can see, still some list to go. And this list doesn't included a 1001 bugs and small stuf we want to do as well. Furthermore we might have to switch to a 2.6 kernel soon, as we are working on a new product with a different chip that has only support for that kernel. A lot of work porting everything. But the good news is that we will probably install some newer app versions then too.
