Roadmap 2023

[John J. Karcher]

On 12/26/22 10:58, Norman Feske wrote:
> Dear Genode Community,
> 
> hereby, I'd like to kick off our yearly brainstorming about Genode's 
> road map for the upcoming year. Please feel invited to chime in, sharing 
> your personal observations and plans. By mid of January, I will update 
> Genode's official road map, trying to weave one reasonable plan out of 
> our individual interests.

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> What about you?
> ---------------
> 
> Even though I hope that the thoughts above resonate with you, I'm pretty 
> sure you have different perspectives. Please share them!
> 
> How did you perceive the Genode year 2022?

I think this was a very productive year for Genode!  Every year I think 
things are going to slow down, and every year you find new way(s) to 
surprise us! :^)

> What directions are you most excited about?

Both the PC driver refactoring and the PinePhone port are very exciting 
to me.  I bought a PinePhone a few months ago, for the purpose of 
installing Genode.  I haven't had the time to do this yet, but I can't 
wait to try it, and follow the progress!  And of course, improved driver 
support on the PC is always important.

> Which topics do you deem as interesting to explore yourself?

Too many to list!  On the development side, I would really like to focus 
on exploring the power of the native Genode APIs, such as Nitpicker, 
VFS, etc.  There are so many possibilities there, just waiting to be 
combined in creative ways!

Oh yes, and getting back to Ada.

> Do you already happen to have rough plans about 2023?

2022 was a very disappointing year for me, as I had almost no time to 
devote to Genode (or other projects), so my plans for the new year are 
roughly the same as for the old - move to Sculpt as my daily driver OS 
on the laptop, and preferably upgrade from my feature phone to Genode on 
the PinePhone.  That would be a good year in my book! :^)

Thanks to everyone for another exciting and productive year in the quest 
for trustworthy and user-controlled computing!

  Happy Sculpting!

   John J. Karcher
   devuser at alternateapproach.com