From owner-svn-doc-head@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 14 14:12:40 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 01C5CFE9; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 14:12:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::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 D78DD2C3A; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 14:12:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s6EECdVK092772; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 14:12:39 GMT (envelope-from gjb@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from gjb@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) id s6EECdWo092771; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 14:12:39 GMT (envelope-from gjb@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201407141412.s6EECdWo092771@svn.freebsd.org> From: Glen Barber Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 14:12:39 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r45287 - 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-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the doc tree for head List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 14:12:40 -0000 Author: gjb Date: Mon Jul 14 14:12:39 2014 New Revision: 45287 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45287 Log: Add the FreeBSD Foundation status report. Submitted by: deb Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml Mon Jul 14 13:45:00 2014 (r45286) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.xml Mon Jul 14 14:12:39 2014 (r45287) @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ ?>

Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This - report contains 9 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.

+ report contains 10 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.

The deadline for submissions covering between July and September 2014 is October 7th, 2014.

@@ -792,4 +792,119 @@

Work on this project is sponsored by Juniper Networks.

+ + + The &os; Foundation + + + + + Deb + Goodkin + + deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org + + + + + + &os; Journal + + + +

The &os; Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization + dedicated to supporting and promoting the &os; Project + and community worldwide. Most of the funding is used to + support &os; development projects, conferences and developer + summits, purchase equipment to grow and improve the &os; + infrastructure, and provide legal support for the Project.

+ +

We published our third issue of the &os; Journal. We have + over 2700 subscriptions so far. We continued working on the + digital edition, that will allow subscribers to read the + magazine in different web browsers, including those than run + on &os;. This will be available for the July/August issue of + the Journal.

+ +

We hired Anne Dickison, on a freelance basis, as our new + marketing director, to help us promote the Foundation and + Project.

+ +

We held our annual board meeting in Ottawa, Canada, in May. + We elected directors and officers, and did some long term + planning. We worked on our vision, core values, project road + mapping, and our near term goals. We also met with the core + team to discuss roles and responsibilities, project + roadmapping, and what we can do to help the Project more.

+ +

We were a Gold+ sponsor for BSDCan, May 16-17 and provided + 7 travel grants for developers to attend the conference. We + also were the sponsor for both the developer and vendor + summits.

+ +

Justin Gibbs gave a &os; presentation at a &os; user's + internal technology summit. Company visits like this help + users understand the Project structure better and gives us + a chance to communicate what &os; people are working on as + well as learn what different companies are doing with &os;, as + well as what they'd like to see supported. We can then help + facilitate collaboration between the companies and &os; + developers.

+ +

We were represented at Great Wide Open, April 2-3 + (greatwideopen.org), Texas LinuxFest, June 13-14 + (texaslinuxfest.org), and SouthEast LinuxFest, June 20-22 + (southeastlinuxfest.org).

+ +

We purchased hardware to support an upgrade at Sentex. A new, + high capacity, 1Gbps switch, was deployed to allow for more + systems to be added to the test lab. The main file server and + development box was upgraded to allow more users in the lab + simultaneously.

+ +

We purchased hardware, including package builders, and + a larger server to allow NYI to be a full replica of all + Project systems, comparable to what is in place at Yahoo Inc. + and ISC.

+ +

Worked with our lawyer to create an NDA between the + Foundation and individuals for third party NDAs. This allows + developers who need access to proprietary documents, to go + through the Foundation, via an NDA for access.

+ +

&os; Foundation Systems Administrator and Release Engineer, + Glen Barber, continued work on producing regularly-updated + &os;/arm snapshots for embedded devices, such as the + RaspberryPi, ZedBoard, and BeagleBone.

+ +

In addition to producing weekly development snapshots from + the head/ and stable/ branches, with feedback and help from Ed + Maste, Glen finished work to produce release images that will, + by default, provide debugging files for userland and kernel + available on the &os; Project FTP mirrors. Note, the + debugging files will not be included on the bootonly.iso, + disc1.iso, or dvd1.iso images due to the size of the resulting + images.

+ +

Foundation staff member Konstantin Belousov completed an + investigation into poor performance of PostgreSQL on &os;. + This uncovered scalability problems in the &os; kernel, and + changes to address these issues are in progress.

+ +

Some previously completed Foundation-sponsored projects + received some enhancements or additional work. The ARM + superpages project was completed last year, but is now enabled + by default in &os;-CURRENT. Many stability fixes and + enhancements have been committed to the in-kernel iSCSI stack. + The iSCSI project was released in &os; 10.0. Many + stability fixes and enhancements have been committed and will + be included in &os; 10.1.

+ +

Work continues on the Foundation-sponsored autofs automount + daemon, UEFI boot support, the updated vt(4) system video + console, virtual machine images, and the Intel graphics driver + update. Foundation-sponsored work resulted in + 226 commits to &os; over the April to June period.

+ +