The &os; Core Team

From owner-svn-doc-all@freebsd.org Sun Apr 23 04:32:22 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-all@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16B9BD4A140; Sun, 23 Apr 2017 04:32:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org (repo.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:6068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CC702141; Sun, 23 Apr 2017 04:32:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.37]) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id v3N4WKmb072469; Sun, 23 Apr 2017 04:32:20 GMT (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from bjk@localhost) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id v3N4WKDB072468; Sun, 23 Apr 2017 04:32:20 GMT (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <201704230432.v3N4WKDB072468@repo.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: repo.freebsd.org: bjk set sender to bjk@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Benjamin Kaduk Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 04:32:20 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r50198 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire doc trees \(except for " user" , " projects" , and " translations" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 04:32:22 -0000 Author: bjk Date: Sun Apr 23 04:32:20 2017 New Revision: 50198 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/50198 Log: Add 2017Q1 core entry from matthew Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-01-2017-03.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-01-2017-03.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-01-2017-03.xml Sun Apr 23 03:19:08 2017 (r50197) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-01-2017-03.xml Sun Apr 23 04:32:20 2017 (r50198) @@ -1184,4 +1184,99 @@ bhyve and attached to an RBD image. + + + The &os; Core Team + + + + &os; Core Team + core@FreeBSD.org + + + + +

Core's primary function is to ensure the long-term viability of + the &os; project. A very large part of that is to ensure that the + interactions between developers remain cordial, and consequently + that the project appears welcoming to newcomers.

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Normally, most of Core's activities around this are done in + private -- a quiet word in the right ear, some discrete + peacemaking, occasional reading of the riot act. Most of the time, + this is all that is necessary.

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Unfortunately, this quarter we had an instance where such private + measures failed to achieve the desired result, and we ended up + ejecting a developer. John Marino is an extremely talented + programmer and has made significant contributions to the Ports + Collection. Despite this, portmgr found him to be + sufficiently disruptive and abrasive that in their judgement, + the project was better off overall to sever his connection to + itself, and core backed them up in that. We are sorry that + events came to this sad conclusion, but we remain convinced + that this was a necessary step to safeguard the character of + our community.

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In a more positive light, Core has been working on a proposal + to recognise notable contributors to the &os; project who are not + (or perhaps not yet) suitable to be put forward as new + committers. In addition to the usual routes of recognising people + that write numbers of good bug reports or that supply patches or + that volunteer to maintain ports, this will also allow recognition + of people who contribute by such things as organising &os; events + or who promote &os; through social media. A formal announcement + of Core's proposal is imminent.

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During January, the core secretary held an exercise to contact + all source committers who had been inactive for more than 18 + months and persuade them to hand in their commit bits if they + weren't planning to resume working on &os; in the near future. + This is meant to be a routine function -- the "grim reaper" -- + that aims to keep the list of people with the ability to commit + pretty much in synchrony with the list of people that are actively + committing. The regular process had fallen out of activity + several years ago, and we needed to clear the decks before + restarting. Ultimately, this resulted in some 20 + developers-emeritus handing in their commit bits.

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No new commit bits were awarded during this quarter.

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Core is also taking soundings on producing a 10.4-RELEASE. + This is not in the current plan, but a number of developers and + important &os; users would be keen to see it happen, given some of + the work that has gone into the stable/10 branch since + 10.3-RELEASE. On the other hand, this would require an additional + support burden for SecTeam, including maintaining versions of + software that have been declared obsolete upstream, in particular + OpenSSL. As an even-numbered release, 10.4-RELEASE would have a + "normal" rather than an "extended" lifetime which means it should + not result in extending the support lifetime of the stable/10 + branch.

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In other news, Core arranged for the old and largely inactive + marketing@FreeBSD.org mailing list to be wound up, and for any + remaining activities to be transferred to the &os; Foundation.

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Core also asked clusteradm to turn off Internet-wide access to + the finger server on freefall.freebsd.org. Many + developers have included details such as phone numbers into + the GECOS field of their &os; password database entries, and + these would be revealed by the finger server -- + details which are nowadays generally felt inadvisable to + expose publicly. finger is still available + internally within freefall.freebsd.org. Core recommends that + GECOS data is limited to just your full name, and we have + updated the standard "new committer" e-mail template + to reflect that.

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Core is looking for new volunteers to help out with several of + the teams that manage various aspects of the project. In + particular, Postmaster and SecTeam are in need of new blood. + Recruiting a new member of SecTeam is well underway, but anyone + interested in joining any of the teams is encouraged to make + themselves known either to Core, or directly to the teams + concerned.

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