From owner-svn-doc-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 26 00:10:46 2014
Return-Path: The last quarter of 2013 was very active for the &os;
community, much like the preceding quarters. Many advances were
made in getting &os; to run on ARM-based System-on-Chip boards
- like Cubieboard, Rockchip, Snapdragon, S4, Freescale i.MX6 and
+ like Cubieboard, Rockchip, Snapdragon, S4, Freescale i.MX6, and
Vybrid VF6xx. &os; is also becoming a better platform for Xen
and the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. There are plans for &os;
to become a fully supported compute host for OpenStack. The I/O
@@ -434,8 +434,8 @@
The i.MX range is a family of Freescale Semiconductor
proprietary microprocessors for multimedia applications based on
- the ARM architecture and focused on low-power consumption. The
- i.MX6x series is based on the ARM Cortex A9 solo, dual or quad
+ the ARM architecture and focused on low power consumption. The
+ i.MX6x series is based on the ARM Cortex A9 solo, dual, or quad
cores. Initial support for them has been committed to
head, and merged to stable/10. All members of
the i.MX6 family (Solo, Dual, and Quad core) are supported, but
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@
of context switches. Thanks to these cam(4) and geom(4) changes,
- the peak I/O rate has doubled on comptemporary hardware, reaching
+ the peak I/O rate has doubled on contemporary hardware, reaching
up to 1,000,000 IOPS! The devel/py-distribute port has been replaced by the
refreshed devel/py-setuptools port, which comes with a
- lot of features that simplify the ways of installing Python
+ lot of features that simplify the methods of installing Python
packages. The change also led us to install everything through
- Setuptools now, which resembles a PyIP a bit and allows us to
+ Setuptools now, which resembles PyIP a bit and allows us to
perform some major cleanup on the distutils installation
behaviour.
At the November 2013 &os; Vendor Summit, some of the work was +
At the November 2013 &os; Vendor Summit, some work was presented that Craig Rodrigues has been doing with Continuous Integration and Testing at iXsystems. Craig's presentation described how iXsystems is using modern best practices for @@ -1244,14 +1244,14 @@ change noticed.
To better manage changes such as the WITH_NEW_XORG and - Cairo 1.12 changes mentioned above, we asked on the + the Cairo 1.12 changes mentioned above, we asked on the freebsd-x11 mailing-list if people are using &os; 8.x on their desktop computers and why they do not upgrade to &os; 9.x or 10.x. So far, we received very few answers to this.
The Radeon KMS driver in &os; 10.x is now considered - stable, especially that integrated GPUs are now properly + stable, especially now that integrated GPUs are properly initialized. One of the next steps will be to merge this to stable/9.
@@ -1342,11 +1342,11 @@ replacement for the existing, quite old, virtual terminal emulator called syscons(4). Initially motivated by the lack of Unicode support in syscons(4), the project was - later expanded to cover the new requirement to support Kernel + later expanded to cover the new requirement of supporting Kernel Mode Switching (KMS).The project is now approaching completion and is ready for - wider testing as the related code was already merged to &os; + wider testing, as the related code was already merged to &os; head. Hence, vt(9) can be tested easily by replacing the following two lines in the kernel config file:
@@ -1378,7 +1378,7 @@ device vt_vgaThe auditdistd(8) daemon is responsible for - distributing audit trail files over TCP/IP network securely and + distributing audit trail files over TCP/IP networks securely and reliably. Currently, the daemon uses Transport Layer Security (TLS) for communication, but only server-side certificates are verified, based on the certificate's fingerprint. The ongoing @@ -1518,13 +1518,13 @@ device vt_vga
The &os; Port Management Team ensures that the &os; ports developer community provides a Ports Collection that is - functional, stable, up-to-date and full-featured. Its secondary + functional, stable, up-to-date, and full-featured. Its secondary responsibility is to coordinate among the committers and - developers who work on it. As part of these efforts, we added 3 - new committers, took in 3 commit bits for safe keeping, and - reinstated 1 commit bit in the fourth quarter of 2013.
+ developers who work on it. As part of these efforts, we added three + new committers, took in three commit bits for safe keeping, and + reinstated one commit bit in the fourth quarter of 2013. -Ongoing effort went into testing larger changes, as many as 8 a +
Ongoing effort went into testing larger changes, as many as eight a week, including sweeping changes to the tree, moderization of the infrastructure, and basic quality assurance (QA) runs. Many iterations of tests against 10.0-RELEASE were run to @@ -1746,7 +1746,7 @@ device vt_vga
Support in improving the experience of Wine on &os; is needed. Key areas including fixing regressions, adding copy protection - scheme support and fixing regressions when using Wine under + scheme support, and fixing regressions when using Wine under &os;/amd64.
@@ -1782,7 +1782,7 @@ device vt_vga KDE/&os; Team have continued to improve the experience of KDE software and Qt under &os;. -During last quarter, the team has kept most of the KDE and Qt +
During the last quarter, the team has kept most of the KDE and Qt ports up-to-date, working on the following releases:
As usual, the team is always looking for more testers and - porters so please contact us or visit our home page (see links). + porters, so please contact us or visit our home page (see links). It would be especially useful to have more helping hands on tasks such as getting rid of the dependency on the defunct HAL project and providing integration with KDE's Bluedevil Bluetooth @@ -1861,12 +1861,12 @@ device vt_vga &os; 10.x.
It was a busy quarter for the src repository as well. The Core - Team was happy to welcome Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh) back + Team was happy to welcome Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh) back, who has recently returned to the &os; business, and joined iXsystems as project manager and release engineer of FreeNAS. - In addition to this, there were 3 commit bits offered for new - developers, 2 committers were upgraded, 1 commit bit was taken - for safekeeping, and 1 src bit was reactivated.
+ In addition to this, there were three commit bits offered for new + developers, two committers were upgraded, one commit bit was taken + for safekeeping, and one src bit was reactivated.