Add some suggested skills to the projects I suggested to Murray

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en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Ideas//EN"
 <ideas>
   <cvs:keywords xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS" version="1.0">
     <cvs:keyword name="freebsd">
-      $FreeBSD: www/en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml,v 1.50 2008/03/18 04:24:39 murray Exp $
+      $FreeBSD: www/en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml,v 1.51 2008/03/18 04:49:44 murray Exp $
     </cvs:keyword>
   </cvs:keywords>
 
@@ -27,14 +27,27 @@ Ideas//EN"
       <desc><p><strong>Technical Contact</strong>: <a
   href="mailto:imp@FreeBSD.org">Warner Losh</a></p>
 
-      <p>This project would take Sam Leffler's scripts, picobsd,
-        and/or tinybsd and create a reproducible build of FreeBSD for
-        a tiny footprint.  16MB is a good side to target, although 8MB
-        would be better.  Most Linux distributions boot using uboot or
-        redboot.  In this environment, the kernel is loaded,
-        decompressed and away you go.  There's also a step for
-        compressed ram disks.  This is basically openwrt for embedding
-        FreeBSD.</p>
+      <p>In the Linux world, there are a number of packages available
+        which will grab a bunch of software, including Linux, the tool
+        chains, packages, etc and create a firmware image for popular
+        devices.  Since FreeBSD is an integrated system, many of these
+        elements are present in the base system or the ports tree.</p>
+      <p>There have been attempts at this problem over the years:
+        nanobsd, picobsd, and tinybsd are in the tree, Sam Leffler has
+        his own custom scripts, etc.  This project would pick an
+        approach and use the existing scripts to make it simple to
+        create images that could be loaded into the firmware of these
+        devices.  Many of the newer devices have 8MB or 16MB flash
+        parts, so that would be a good size to target for the kernel
+        and ram disk image.  A good way to think of this project is
+        openwrt for FreeBSD images.</p>
+<p><strong>Requirements</strong>:</p>
+<ul>
+  <li>Strong C and scripting language programming skills.</li>
+  <li>No fear of the FreeBSD build process.</li>
+  <li>Good knowledge of how FreeBSD is put together.</li>
+  <li>Knowledge of the ports system.</li>
+</ul>
       </desc>
     </idea>
 
@@ -43,6 +56,11 @@ Ideas//EN"
       <desc><p><strong>Technical Contact</strong>: <a
   href="mailto:imp@FreeBSD.org">Warner Losh</a></p>
       <p>Add support for nand flash support.</p>
+<p><strong>Requirements</strong>:</p>
+<ul>
+  <li>Good C programming skills</li>
+  <li>Ability to understand FreeBSD subsystems like geom, device, etc.</li>
+</ul>
       </desc>
     </idea>
 
@@ -54,6 +72,11 @@ Ideas//EN"
 activate children.  They are far too hard to create.  We need to
 abstract out the basics for these buses and provide a way to allow
 these buses to be a subclass of this new base class.</p>
+<p><strong>Requirements</strong>:</p>
+<ul>
+  <li>Good C programming skills</li>
+  <li>Good knowledge of the NewBus configuration system in FreeBSD</li>
+</ul>
       </desc>
     </idea>
 
@@ -68,6 +91,10 @@ these buses to be a subclass of this new base class.</p>
         have a mechanism that code on these machines can use to load
         one of several sets of hints, which can then be used to
         populate the bus.</p>
+<p><strong>Requirements</strong>:</p>
+<ul>
+  <li>Good C programming skills</li>
+</ul>
       </desc>
     </idea>
 
@@ -80,6 +107,11 @@ these buses to be a subclass of this new base class.</p>
         needs to be.  A lot of benefit could be had by creating tables
         for memory ranges, etc, and having more generic initialization
         code.  Much of this can also be Machine Independent (MI).</p>
+<p><strong>Requirements</strong>:</p>
+<ul>
+  <li>Good C programming skills</li>
+  <li>Good refactoring skills</li>
+</ul>
       </desc>
     </idea>
 
@@ -93,6 +125,11 @@ these buses to be a subclass of this new base class.</p>
         etc that have chips that are supported by FreeBSD, or nearly
         supported by FreeBSD.  Pick one and bring FreeBSD up on it.
         Integrate it into the tree.</p>
+<p><strong>Requirements</strong>:</p>
+<ul>
+  <li>Good C programming skills</li>
+  <li>Good kernel debugging skills</li>
+</ul>
       </desc>
     </idea>
 
@@ -107,7 +144,12 @@ these buses to be a subclass of this new base class.</p>
         There's also inconsistent dependency tracking.  We should fix
         this.  Bikeshed included, along with three colors of
         paint.</p>
-
+<p><strong>Requirements</strong>:</p>
+<ul>
+  <li>Good C programming skills</li>
+  <li>Good kernel debugging skills</li>
+  <li>Ability to withstand Bikesheds</li>
+</ul>
       </desc>
     </idea>