Wanted: FreeBSD target maintainer

[RalfJung]

We have lost our FreeBSD maintainer. Partial FreeBSD support exists in the codebase but it is not mentioned in the README as a supported platform. A lot of the test suite still fails, in particular everything that needs concurrency (due to #3553).

Should we just leave it at that and see if another FreeBSD enthusiast shows up? I won't work on completing this support. But for now there is also little cost in just keeping it around; we can always remove it if/when it becomes a problem.

[RalfJung]

FWIW Android is pretty much in the same situation -- we have just enough support to run 'hello world', and that's about it.

This is a good foundation for someone to come in and add the missing shims for proper support.

[oli-obk]

Yea, I'd rather keep the support as long as it's not a maintenance burden (which afaict it is not).

Having a minimal thing to start from seems great. Maybe all we need is a table of supported targets and their tier/level of support

[RalfJung]

@YohDeadfall any chance that you'd want to be listed as our BSD target maintainer? That would come with the expectation that when our tests start failing on FreeBSD, you'd take a look in a timely manner and ideally work on a fix (as your time permits, of course). Naturally you can step back at any time. :)

[YohDeadfall]

@RalfJung, let's give it a try then (:

How should I be informed about failing builds? Manually checking the master branch status daily or there's an option to receive an email like for PRs?

[RalfJung]

🎉 Thanks a lot. :)

We will ping you if a BSD failure comes up.