Hi! You may know from pkgsrc-wip, and making a lot of noise^Wbug reports. I'm a long time NetBSD user and a somewhat experienced web developer, and also an electrical engineering student.
I've got a plan for the aforementioned project. I plan to implement it using Lua and bozohttpd, given that they're available in base and fairly portable. Rough timetable: First 1-3 weeks: - Survey several users of alternatives on the pros and cons of the products and their use - Play around with the alternatives and npf - Learn how to make websites with Lua At the end of which, I hope to have a list of features labeled "need, want, good to have". Afterwards: - Implement support for all the features marked "need" - Plan a design for the above. It's very minimal and meant to ensure I will certainly have a working product at the end of the project. Any additional time: - Implement a good amount of the "want" features - Re-design the website, probably. Additional additional time: - Implement "good to have" features - Translate the website to my native language, mostly to ensure it is not too challenging to produce translations. - Add support for extensions, and write one extension, whatever is popular for pfSense. - Redesign again, because nobody is ever happy Nobody signed up for mentoring this project, so I'll clarify what I want of a mentor: - Absolutely no need for knowledge with web development, UI designs, or Lua. - Someone who has used the alternatives and plans to use this one. - Someone that knows the feature list of npf and other things. - Bounce ideas back and forth about designs. That is because, while I'm confident with web development, I've never used a packet filter or npf. Not fixed on this plan at all, willing to change any part given it is done at the beginning. Thanks for reading! coypu
