TASKLIST

Criterias for major/minor version bumps?:

Previous:
0.1: ODS-2 grub support, kernel boot and dcl start.
0.2: ODS-2 about as usable as Ext2.
0.3: SMP and 64-bit support.

Next (A-H in more or less probable order, from 0.5-)?:
0.F: New cluster network engine, based on CMU IP stack engine.
0.G. More CWPS
0.E: A much more developed CLI 
0.C: Locks in active use
0.D: DLM
0.B: ODS-5 (FI5) and Unix compatibility.
0.A: Security features.
0.H: PAL (no 1.0 without it)
1.0/2.0: FreeVMS being able to recompile itself on FreeVMS.

0.4: inactive and inconclusive, not a branch of this freevms

FreeVMS tasklist

1. High priority:
	CPU/PAL
	LIBRTL
	CLI, CDU
	Better terminal driver

2. Medium priority:
	VMS image and linker
	MSG
	General bugfix, extensions, compliance to ordinary functionality
	SMG
	ODS-5 (FI5) and Unix compatibility.
	64-bit LE (have to go through the code to handle int, long etc)
	SMP

3. Low priority:
	Locks
	Cluster (will increase later in 0.2.x-cycle)
	LBR
	Full RMS (with more than SEQ)
	Full ODS-2 (with extended headers, volume set etc)
	Security features
	Mutexes

4. Yet unknown priority:
	System service dispatching
	Condition handling
	CRTL (probably none, should go for using libc)

5. No priority:
	Volume shadowing
	Non-intel
	64-bit BE
	See SElinux link

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Detailed descriptions:

  Basic/foundation stuff:

    CPU/PAL
	We will need someone with keen eye for and high knowledge of CPU 
	semantics to finish IPLs etc, because we need to get synchronization
	correct on the instruction level, or we will never get it stable.

	Important concepts are atomicity/noninterruption, interlocking, stacks.
	(See VARM, eventually AARM.) 

	Also needed is implementing and finishing the following instructions:

		INSQUE, REMQUE
		ADAWI, INSQHI, INSQTI, REMQHI, REMQTI
		PROBE
		CHMx
		REI
		SWASTEN
		SWPCTX, LDPCTX

	Interrupt/trap/stack functionality

  Data Structure Definitions

  Kernel:	

    Control Mechanisms:
	ASTs

    Synchronization:
	Lock management (DLM)

    Memory management

    Process and time management

    I/O Subsystem

    Logicals

  ODS-2

  DCL
  Suggested order:
	CLI, LBR
	CDU, MSG
	DCL itself, with Internal Procedures
	CLI Command Language Interface routines No kernel stuff
		See
		$ help cli
		http://www.openvms.compaq.com:8000/73final/4493/
		4493pro_003.html#cli_chap
	LBR librarian   No kernel stuff (I think)
		See 
		$ help lbr
		http://www.openvms.compaq.com:8000/73final/6100/
		6100pro_005.html#lib_chap
		http://www.openvms.compaq.com:8000/73final/4493/
		4493pro_019.html#23_structureoflibraries
	CDU Command Definition Utility  No kernel stuff (I think)
		See
		$ help set command
		http://www.openvms.compaq.com:8000/73final/6100/
		6100pro.html#cd_chap
	MSG message     Some kernel stuff
		See
		$ help rtl lib lib$signal
		$ help message 
		http://www.openvms.compaq.com:8000/73final/6100/
		6100pro_008.html#msg_chap
	Internal procedures possible now, some can be developed independently
		=, assign, call, create/name_table, deassign, define,
		delete/symbol, eod, exit, gosub, goto, if/then/else/endif,
		inquire, on, read, recall, return, set control, set prompt,
		set symbol, set [no]verify, show symbol, show time,
		show translation, stop, write

	Internal procedures for later (kernel dependent)
		allocate, attach, cancel, close, connect, continue, 
		deallocate, debug, deck, define/key, delete/key, deposit,
		disconnect, eoj, examine, open, set default, set key,
		set [no]on, set output_rate, set protection, set uic,
		show default, show key, show protection, show quota,
		show status, spawn, wait

	Also see: 
		Look up DCL in the Internals book. 
		Mainly Process Dynamics chapter.

  Basic libraries:
    LBR
    SMG

  Other libraries:
    LIBRTL

  "SRM", will be using Grub with ODS-2 support.

  RMS
  Utilities COPY DIRECTORY etc
  VMS image support, linker+compiler support for images
  Kernel:
    Control Mechanisms:
	Condition handling
	System service dispatching
    Synchronization:
	Spinlocks, the Linux ones are probably usable.
	Mutexes
    SMP support

  Clustering, SCA, MSCP etc. Base ourselves on the CMU IP stack engine?
  Ordinary security stuff.
  	Start with aiming at
	http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/doc/inevitability/inevitability.html (not?)

  Non-i386 support, will not be done.
  64-bit support, AMD64.

  CRTL, we will continue to try to use libc etc? 
  Editors (got edt from Ozone), depends on better terminal driver and maybe SMG
  Volume shadowing

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CURRENT/ACTIVE PEOPLE:

(Consider no part locked by anyone.
If you do not produce, someone else's code will be used.)

Andrew Allison: librtl
Bertrand Joël: srm
Bojan Nemec: GCC variable argument count on i386
Roar Thronæs: CPU/PAL, Kernel, Cluster, the rest practically and everywhere
Roger Tucker: misc synchronization patch, librtl
Zakaria Yassine: init